Article in latest (1st Sept 2012) issue of New Scientist alleges that high levels of insulin can result in the brain becoming insulin resistant and ending up with Alzheimer's... they're even considering calling Alzheimers Type 3 Diabetes...
what's really making me furious about the article is the rabid obsession in demonising saturated fats as being a cause of diabetes.
Ask yourselves what's wrong with this paragraph:
they did not develop their diet and controls properly. They failed to vary only ONE item for the experiment. The experiment fails to differentiate between the sugar causing the higher insulin levels, or the saturated fats causing it. A proper control diet should have had the same level of saturated fat in both diets, or else the same levels of sugars in both diets.
what's really making me furious about the article is the rabid obsession in demonising saturated fats as being a cause of diabetes.
Ask yourselves what's wrong with this paragraph:
Even if someone doesn't develop Diabetes, a bad diet may be enough to set the wheels in motion for brain degeneration, according to an ongoing study by Craft. For one month a group of volunteers - none of whom had diabetes - ate foods that were high in saturated fat and sugar while a control group ate a diet low in sugar and saturated fat. In just four weeks, those gorging on the high-sugar diet had higher levels of insulin and significantly higher beta amyloid levels in their spinal fluid. The control group showed decreases in both.
they did not develop their diet and controls properly. They failed to vary only ONE item for the experiment. The experiment fails to differentiate between the sugar causing the higher insulin levels, or the saturated fats causing it. A proper control diet should have had the same level of saturated fat in both diets, or else the same levels of sugars in both diets.