'CO2 in the atmosphere is making us all fatter' ?

[Hum]

^ Fat people need to stop breathing :laugh:

[ylcard]

^ Fat people need to stop breathing :laugh:

omg.

[AMPSV]

The Co2 problem is caused buy all the bubbles of co2 from the fizzy drinks being drunk :D :rofl: LOL

not to mention the 7 + billion humans living

[Phalanger]

Oh wow, and uptake of gym memberships in the population is increasing. Maybe the more people go to the gym, the more fat people also appear...

I've got a better idea, maybe it's because people are so lazy they are using products to do their work which produces CO2. This is causing the correlation, not CO2 making people fat...

[DocM]

Or maybe continue the work indicating a significant part of the obesity problem is either an infectious process that hits metabolism, or an imbalance in the guts microbe population.

[Memphis]

Or maybe continue the work indicating a significant part of the obesity problem is either an infectious process that hits metabolism, or an imbalance in the guts microbe population.

As a nursing student and cna that comes from a family of nurses, your blatant projection disgusts me.

[DocM]

The mouse studies showing a connection between gut microbe balance and a transmissible obesity started coming in about 6 years ago and recent studies (Yale - Feb 1, Nature) are still saying the same thing, adding a connection to NAFLD. Human studies are planned since 30 million Americans have NAFLD..

[Memphis]

The mouse studies showing a connection between gut microbe balance and a transmissible obesity started coming in about 6 years ago and recent studies (Yale - Feb 1, Nature) are still saying the same thing, adding a connection to NAFLD. Human studies are planned since 30 million Americans have NAFLD..

Studies also show a link between alcoholism and genetics, but in the end, all that means is that you must be more careful. With diabetes, it is possible to get it outside of your control, but then again, You can also get lung cancer and never smoke or be exposed to second hand smoke. I know you have Diabetes, I believe you said type II. Are you suggesting by your comment that you had no responsibility or control in how you got it? I see patients daily who claim they did everything right and got type 2 diabetes. They claim they follow the plan given by the dietitian and yet when we take out their trash we find TONS of candy, sugar, and fattening snack wrappers in their trash. We cannot provide them these things, but they prey on the volunteers, and housecleaning who are not familiar with their condition or the nutritionists orders and get it anyway and they constantly claim it isn't theirs. Then you'll catch them eating it or something. They claim they're in physical therapy working out too and they when you review the charts, they haven't been participating properly in PT. Now I see people with type 2 diabetes DAILY with denial of their responsibility when they go into a hyperglycemia state and how they got to their in the first place. So my question to you is, do you claim to lack responsibility for your condition? I know for example if I get lung cancer where I got it from and wont deny it if/when it happens.

[DocM]

Now that you're done with your highly presumptive rant, go look up LADA - latent onset autoimmune diabetes in adults, AKA type 1.5. I was originally misdiagnosed with type 2, and still use the term in casual conversationn, but later it was found to be LADA. Diabetes is not the simple type 1/type 2 but a continuum.

[Tomoko]

"The startling theory has been put forward by a Danish researchers, who say that the increase in obese people in Denmark is roughly equivalent to the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."

Nonsense, we all know that the rate of obesity is inversely proportional to the number of landline phones.

Cell phones are making us fatter!

[Memphis]

Now that you're done with your highly presumptive rant, go look up LADA - latent onset autoimmune diabetes in adults, AKA type 1.5. I was originally misdiagnosed with type 2, and still use the term in casual conversationn, but later it was found to be LADA. Diabetes is not the simple type 1/type 2 but a continuum.

[Memphis]

Now that you're done with your highly presumptive rant, go look up LADA - latent onset autoimmune diabetes in adults, AKA type 1.5. I was originally misdiagnosed with type 2, and still use the term in casual conversationn, but later it was found to be LADA. Diabetes is not the simple type 1/type 2 but a continuum.

Now that you are done spewing your ignorance, go read this study

Carlsson S, Midthjell K, Tesfamarian MY, Grill V. "Age,Overwieght, and physical inactivity increases the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults:Results from the Nord-Tr?ndelage Health Study." Diabetologia (2007):55-58, Nov 10

And I quote

This study suggests that increased age, overweight and physical inactivity are as strong risk factors for LADA as for type 2 diabetes. These findings suggest a role for insulin resistance in the pathogenesis of LADA.

I rest my case, you are just like the patients I take care of everyday.

[Salutary7]

I rest my case, you are just like the patients I take care of everyday.

Speaking of projections...

[Memphis]

Speaking of projections...

I'm not quite sure you understand what that word means. A projection is when you attribute a negative aspect you yourself have unto other people. It is however not a projection to say someone (who is not you) is doing the same thing as another group. That is grouping and categorizing. I am not diabetic and as for my bad habits, I smoke, I will probably get COPD and or lung cancer. If this happens, if I cant pay for it with my own money I will survive as long as I can without government assistance then off myself as I see no reason to let them pay for my bad habit. I go to great pains to recognize what my health habits will do to me and stay out of active denial. Now where were you going with that?

[DocM]

I rest my case, you are just like the patients I take care of everyday.

That didn't apply in my case because I was active as hell, eating right and not obese** when T2 was diagnosed, then later they figured out it was LADA by the antibody profile.

** according to my endocrinologist, and BMI doesn't mean squat because of my heavy musculature.

[Memphis]

That didn't apply in my case because I was active as hell and not obese. The best they can figure it was from another condition which can bring on insulin resistance.

So you claim you had nothing to do at all with your development of diabetes? And everyone's innocent in jail and every one of the over 150 diabetics I have worked with over the last three years didnt either. Even the ones who where obese upon admission would claim they where not obese and that they where "naturally big" or "big boned". I don't know your history, their is a very small chance your telling the truth, but it sounds like the same old reflection I have seen out of practically every diabetic I have worked with.

[DocM]

So you claim you had nothing to do at all with your development of diabetes? .....I don't know your history,

Precisely.

....their is a very small chance your telling the truth, but it sounds like the same old reflection I have seen out of practically every diabetic I have worked with.

And that is a non-zero quantity, one which you have rammed your head into. You're starting to sound like the physicians who in days past said asthma was "all in there heads" and denied that many ulcers were caused by H. pylori. Not all diabetics follow the cookie cutter rules. Get used to it.

[Memphis]

Precisely.

And that is a non-zero quantity, one which you have rammed your head into. You're starting to sound like the physicians who in days past said asthma was "all in there heads" and denied that many ulcers were caused by H. pylori.

I believe what I said about you is well grounded. But let me ask you this, as someone who also claims to have been a "medical" professional" whatever that means, do you at least admit that denial of condition and causes of said condition is rampant in the diabetic community? Unlike those docters who had the causes of asthma all wrong and science disproved them, science on the causes of diabetes are overwhelmingly on my side just like lung cancer linked to ciggerettes.

[DocM]

ABSOLUTELY!! It's a huge problem, and it causes trouble for those of us that don't fit into that category (witness this thread.) OTOH, I had access to a great team of specialists and took my condition by the neck - dropping my a1c to 5.6 in 3 months and staying there.