Archives: March 2007
Wed Mar 28, 2007
Diet-Failing People Inflate Language
It is worth studying the characteristics of people who fail on phen-pro, and every other diet. If the failure were due to genetic or biochemical factors, you would expect a random distribution of personality traits among the patients. But in fact failing patients show a narrow range of personality type, suggesting that the most common reason for failure is psychological or cultural. A tool in the analysis is the study of word-choice. Getting people to talk differently is an important step in cognitive therapy, because if people talk a certain way to others, it is likely they talk the same way to themselves. More...
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Sun Mar 11, 2007
Super-Obese People Don't Get Diabetes
It's interesting that battleship-class patients almost never develop diabetes. The patients with type 2 diabetes are never more than heavy cruiser size. You might have thought the risk of diabetes would increase smoothly with increasing BMI, but it doesn't; the risk falls off in the highest BMI range. Why is that? More...
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