I thought this article might be of interest to you all.
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It was very interesting!
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Now donāt get me wrong, this is important work. But those genes have been around for a very long time. More important, IMHOP, is figuring out why they are being triggered in epidemic proportions today.
I think part of that discussion would have to be the āLā word that everyone objects to. I thought @jojeegirl did a really nice job of explaining the big picture of what lifestyle actually means in this context, including social influences and environmental barriers in her live interview. Lifestyle doesnāt just mean individual bad choices (or lack of better choices) instead itās also the entire shift of our society in many ways that arenāt beneficial to our health, and diabetes seems to be one of the best telltales of it IMO. Thank you @jojeegirl for highlighting that.
sorry still searching for real information and Individual bad choices trump all. (
I am still asking if the J supports the ADA guidelines, no answers obviously I donāt, not quite sure why a simple answer would not sufficeā¦
The āLā word may well be a factor, but this is all speculative because I have yet to see anything resembling hard data (you pays your money and you takes your choice; of opinions, that is). But I doubt profoundly that itās the entire explanation. The epidemic is worldwide and the Lās vary from place to place, sometimes drastically. One of the alternative suspects is environmental toxins, and thatās what my money is on, at least until I do see some hard data.
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There is plenty of circumstantial evidence to satisfy my curiousityā¦ Aboriginal Australians living aboriginal lifestyle have pretty much zero diabetesā¦ Aboriginal Australians living āmodernā lifestyles and eating modern diets have ultra high diabetes ratesā¦
Iād venture that you might find far fewer cases of diabetes in the NBA than youāll find in a random American sample group of men of the same age and genetic profilesā¦ But again thatās just speculation not hard data.
I have no hard data that itās pouring rain right now at my house, and Iām not a meteorologistā but I can look out the window right now and it is pretty obvious to me.
@David_dns you might find the topic of social determinants of health and the social ecological theory of interest if you are looking for hard data. Determinants of health/ecology are relative to where is person is geographically.
The plural of āanecdoteā is not āevidenceā.
There is plenty of evidence, people are just so defensive whenever it comes to the discussion that they choose to selectively ignore it or reject it. Diabetes prevalence rates are much different in Kenya that they are in California. The difference is lifestyle. Until we stop pretending that this isnāt reality then weāll pretty much be rejecting any possibility of improving the situation as well, which is quite unfortunate.