Re: ABC News Nightline: Carbohydrates Make You Fat, and Perhaps Sick

friend Chris Malcolm wrote:

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> ... My doctor uncle used to keep a
> photograph of the skeletal inmates of Auschwitz looking out through
> the barbed wire at their rescuers to show to those of his patients who
> claimed they didn't lose weight no matter how little they ate.

Indeed.

Wiser to simply eat less, down to the optimal amount along with doing
everything else right:

http://ABChung.LiveJournal.com/8329.html

> Diabetics are a special case, because if we're capable of moderate
> exercise we can pull down a post-prandial BG spike quite quickly with
> it. For me, like you, however, the major benefits of exercise are not
> in direct BG control, but in the general benefits to health and the
> indirect longer term benefit of making BG control easier by the
> metabolic changes of being fitter.

However, it is clear that while there is bad inside fat (visceral
adipose tissue or VAT) there will always be a decrement in fitness no
matter how much exercise is undertaken.

Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be blessed:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/PressRelease

Prayerfully in the infinite power and might of the Holy Spirit,

Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
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Bondservant to the KING of kings and LORD of lords.