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Originally Posted by George Mounce
Darryl I don't see the point to your posting these articles. Do you want discussion or are you trying to prove something?
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I post these articles because I find them interesting and think, perhaps mistakenly, that others may find them interesting too. If they spark debate that's fine if they don't *shrug* no big deal.
Why do I post them here then where I know my opinion (bias) goes against the norm? Because I know that if a study has some obvious flaw that I miss due to confirmation bias someone will leap on it to prove what an idiot I am. If I posted these articles on some of the other forums I use where people mostly agree with me this wouldn't happen. I also like the way that for the most part disagreements here are settled with reason, logic and science rather than personal attacks, a rare thing in my experience of the internet.
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Originally Posted by George Mounce
Guess what, go to any clinic working with 1) the morbidly obese, and 2) diabetics (Type 2 especially). Their carbohydrate levels are ridiculous.
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I'm guessing that refined sugar and hfcs make up the bulk of their carb intake right (?) because you have to really work at it to become obese on a diet of unrefined carbs. Also having observed the way my dad who is obese and has type 2 diabetes eats I suspect most overweight diabetics eat quite a lot of fat too.
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Originally Posted by George Mounce
The American Diabetic Association has moved towards the paleolithic diet after much research and much success with patients. There is a reason for this...lower total production of insulin, and in the case of Type 1 diabetics (one of which is my mother) results in an over 50% reduction in required insulin intake. You are going to find it very hard to convince any diabetic educator that eating more carbohydrates is going to help insulin levels...ever.
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You'll get no arguments from me about the benefits of the paleo diet except that my version of the diet is based on foods that would have been available to hunter-gatherers in Africa 100,000+ years ago rather than the diets of more modern N. American hunter-gatherers.
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Originally Posted by George Mounce
Guess what else, these people WERE GIVEN FOOD. They didn't eat their normal diet. I can make any research tell me what I want it to tell me as well when I am the one controlling all the variables.
Research like this is horrid in so many ways, and since I have to get to work I don't even want to waste the time typing out all the blaring errors in their methods.
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I agree you can design a study that will prove almost anything you want but, like I said before, people here are usually quick to point out any flaws in a study if only to prove what an idiot I am for believing such nonsense.
