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Unfortunately the NYT's coverage of nutrition lately has been so bad as to make me think of most of the articles as press hits by the pharmaceutical and food in

Unfortunately the NYT's coverage of nutrition lately has been so bad as to make me think of most of the articles as press hits by the pharmaceutical and food industry. The conclusions from the study are interesting. However, giving people the impression they should cut antioxidants to improve overall health (via insulin regulation effects from exercise) is suboptimal. The antioxidants are rather important long term. Exercise is critical but not sufficient if you're going to continue eating refined sugars and grains that bring about a need to improve insulin regulation to begin with. So, to be clear, the prevention for diabetes is: Exercise regularly and remove all refined/processed foods from your diet. Don't cut out antioxidants.

zmimon 17y ago
> So, to be clear, the prevention for diabetes is: Exercise regularly and remove all refined/processed foods from your diet. Don't cut out antioxidants. Or, just have a simple operation and cure it for real (type 2 anyway): http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2554683.htm http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2554683.ht...
WilliamLP 17y ago
The issue of grains is a really striking example of how people (up to nutrition professionals and medial doctors) engage in group-think when the facts don't fit preconceptions and aren't convenient. As far as I can tell, grains, including corn, whole wheat bred, and rice, are pretty unambiguously bad for health in practically all respects, yet many people cling, with strong emotions, to the belief that they are healthy foods.