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"More research is needed to see whether the reversal is permanent, say experts." A single small trial isn't something to base medical advice around.

• niels_olson 12y ago
  Great point. As a matter of fact, parachutes have never had a randomized controlled trial. They should be avoided also.
  • voronoff 12y ago
    Engineering != science || medicine. It can be used in both, and can use science, but that doesn't make it the same thing. P.S. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/1524537 http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/1524537 is a study on parachute effectiveness
  • ymra 12y ago
    If you want to base your life around the results of single, small scale studies, that's your choice. But I've seen too many studies that seemed impressive, but when people set out to replicate the the study, they failed to get the same results. This is not rare, it happens frequently.
    • niels_olson 12y ago
      Before I went into medicine, I too might have missed the point I was making, which is that eating less almost certainly reverses the vast, vast majority of type 2 diabetes. I mean, within a day. Americans eat so much they think overeating is normal. Bariatric patients (morbidly obese people getting their stomach essentially amputated, see Roux-en-Y) are generally told to fast for 24 hours prior to surgery. Their glucose levels before surgery are often normal, for the first time in decades. The association between food intake and obesity is far, far stronger than cigarettes and lung cancer, even stronger than Hep B and hepatocellular carcinoma. Asserting that eating less (and I do mean significantly less) needs to be studied more is like saying we should hold off on parachute use until more studies are done.