werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (07/23/85)
Several people in this newsgroup have repeated an unsupported assumption that 'Pancreatic Burnout' is caused by high levels of sugar consumption, and that this burnout leads to Diabetes. The same result can be obtained by assuming that the pancreas would slowly atrophy with age regardless of sugar intake, and the only way you would ever notice it, is if you tried to overload with too much sugar. The more sugar you consume, the earlier it would be detected. The clinical results are indistinguishable, but you can clearly see that in the first instance, sugar is to blame, in the second it isn't. Current evidence suggests that the second model is closer to the truth in a majority of cases. (Just trying to keep people's dogmas honest.) -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"
fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) (07/24/85)
In article <aecom.1808> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > > Several people in this newsgroup have repeated an unsupported >assumption that 'Pancreatic Burnout' is caused by high levels of sugar >consumption, and that this burnout leads to Diabetes. > > The same result can be obtained by assuming that the pancreas would >slowly atrophy with age regardless of sugar intake, and the only way you >would ever notice it, is if you tried to overload with too much sugar. The >more sugar you consume, the earlier it would be detected. > > The clinical results are indistinguishable, but you can clearly see >that in the first instance, sugar is to blame, in the second it isn't. > Current evidence suggests that the second model is closer to the >truth in a majority of cases. > > (Just trying to keep people's dogmas honest.) Right. Just like liver damage is a natural consequence of aging in some people. Heavy drinking merely allows one to feel the effects sooner. So you might as well drink all you can while your liver is still strong. :-( :-( :-( Frank Silbermann