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245. Weight Loss for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)

Weight loss is an important aspect of the official policy for treating T2D. The recommendations are to increase the amount of fibre and to reduce fat, especially saturated fat. Specific advice includes: Increase consumption of foods such as wholegrain bread and cereals Choose foods that are low in fat – replace butter, ghee and coconut oil with …

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42. American Doctors Decide that Obesity is a Disease

Obesity is now classed as a disease according to a recent decision taken by the American Medical Association (AMA)which is the official body representing the medical profession in the USA. This decision was reached despite the fact that the AMA’s own Council on Science and Public Health had concluded that: “Without a single, clear, authoritative, …

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31. Does Weight Loss by Calorie Reduction Improve Health?

If losing weight is to be justified then there should be convincing evidence that there will be definite benefits to health for those who actually succeed in reducing their body weight. In an investigation in which 2453 men and 2739 women aged 45 to 74 were monitored initially in the period 1971-1975 and followed up …

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30. Does Calorie Reduction Result in Long Term Loss of Body Weight?

At any given time there are large numbers of people who are attempting to lose weight. For example a survey conducted in Denmark found that 25% of people classified as underweight were slimming (1). The results for all BMI categories are in Table 1  TABLE 1. PROPORTION SLIMMING IN THE DIFFERENT BMI CATEGORIES BASED ON …

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10.What is the Evidence that being Overweight or Obese as Determined by BMI is dangerous?

  In 2005 the authoritative Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a study conducted by Katherine Flegal and colleagues at the respected Center for Disease Control (CDC).  This work is an analysis of data derived from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted in the USA. It was started …

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