Let's screw the pharmaceutical companies

[BanzaiBonnie]

An NPR story this morning tells a tale of two brothers. Twins. One develops diabetes, one is avoiding the disease.

The story informs us that small changes can make a dramatic difference in your chance of developing the disease. Losing 7% of your body weight can reduce the chance of developing diabetes by 60%. And the study that was done comparing "treatments" found that lifestyle changes were twice as effective as Metformin.

In fact exercise alone, without weight loss, kept blood sugar levels in good order.



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122104219

[Deep13]

1. I heard it too.

That is very good information for people who can avoid the disease by staying in shape. Not everyone can of course.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. Very true. It will help a lot of people.

[monmouth]

2. A story handed down to me as my great aunts all had diabetes and

were not overweight women, they lived on tea and toast..Anyway, that diabetes "skips" a generation. Is this true. I remember when my first son was born, he was a pretty big baby for little ole me and that was the first concern. Did I hear wrong, just curious...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Some doctors say that obese people should start taking diabetes drugs.

To control their blood sugar, and that they lose weight on them. Byetta and another one.

[hedgehog]

5. One problem with our health care system is that specialists

rarely raise their heads to see what the other guy is learning. In this case, people studying sleep apnea are starting to come around to the notion that sleep apnea causes insulin resistance leading to weight gain (which in turn aggravates the apena - it's a vicious cycle). How many people being treated or warned about Type 2 diabetes have been checked for sleep apnea?

Caveat: I was tested for sleep apnea in October. To my utter shock, I have sleep apnea. Seriously, I had no idea!