[Diabetes-talk] Recently DXED Pre-Diabetic

[Sandi Ryan]

Thanks for the book suggestion.  I'm gonna read that.

Sandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Recently DXED Pre-Diabetic


> Right on, Sandi.
> There's an awful lot of the "publish or perish " mentality in research 
> these days. In fact, Bayer did a study in 2005 in which they discovered 
> that they couldn't replicate the results of two -thirds of the medical 
> research papers that had been published in the proceeding few years -- I 
> forget the exact limits. Read another BARD book called "The Signal and the 
> Noise ". It definitely makes one thing.
> Mike
>
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 9:10, "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Exactly!  And when doctors and other health professionals are 
>> recommending this or that, they are often basing it on their best 
>> conjecture or on the results of one or a few studies, just as we do when 
>> we read things and follow them on that basis.  And remember that, while 
>> the FDA's panel that approves drugs and foods is expert, they are not 
>> experts in everything.  As a speaker at a commencement at Harvard Medical 
>> School in the 80s said "You can leave here knowing that about 10% of what 
>> we taught you here is fact. The problem is, none of us knows which 10%." 
>> Most people get their beliefs from the media (including media doctors who 
>> interpret study findings), and most media reports are based on what's 
>> been discovered in one study by one group of researchers, and touted as 
>> fact.  And many times, when further study shows the opposite, it is 
>> ignored, or the public has come to believe so strongly in the first study 
>> that no amount of evidence to the contrary can change minds.
>>
>> Sandi
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" 
>> <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
>> To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:59 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Recently DXED Pre-Diabetic
>>
>>
>>> Well, the medical community and FDA are always changing their minds
>>> about what is good and what isn't. For years we were told to limit
>>> caffeine consumption, but recently, I hear everywhere that massive
>>> amounts of caffeine are good for you. Okay, perhaps massive is an
>>> exaggeration, grin, but seriously, I saw one interview where multiple
>>> cups of coffee were being recommended. Just a couple of years ago the
>>> medical community would have admonished you for this.
>>>
>>> So I agree with have to proceed withcaution when it comes to these
>>> reports and not jump on bandwagons. I recall a decade ago when low-carb
>>> diets were all the rage, and everyone was sure this was the way to lose
>>> weight and eat in general. Now we know that a balance diet including
>>> complex carbs is much better than low-carb or no-carb.
>>>
>>> I think balance is key, and watching consumption amounts and what we eat
>>> does more than following current trends.
>
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