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To: Constant Reader who wrote (17013)	7/8/2002 8:45:07 PM
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Perhaps the biggest worry associated with obesity is the concurrent surge in diabetes. Some experts predict the number of diabetics world-wide will triple in the next 15 years to about 320 million -- a number exceeding the population of the U.S. Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure and amputations. "Diabetes is a very dangerous and expensive complication to obesity," Dr. Rössner says. Another interesting part of that article was the explication of the association of carbohydrate-consumption with diabetes, that is, that carbohydrates cause a surge in insulin, which triggers hunger, which causes eating, which (if the cycle of carbohydrate --> insulin surge ---> hunger --- eating repeats frequently enough) causes obesity.... The major culprit: the same combination of high-calorie diets and sedentary behavior that fuels the epidemic of fat in the U.S. I'll betcha that WSJ article wouldn't have been written quite the same next week as it was last week, that is, with no mention of the specific possibly causative role carbohydrates (sodas, etc) play in "high calorie" diets. (I say 'causative' because of the effect of the insulin surge.) (That isn't new information, but putting it front and center in the obesity discussion, and opposing it to the Fat Is The Culprit Thesis, is.)