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obesity not directly linked to diabetes
Mar. 24th, 2010 08:21 pmAnybody else see the recent article in New Scientist about the new findings showing that the folklore linking diabetes and a number of other autoimmune problems with obesity is not really correct?
I have to say I'd been wondering about it for some time. It always seemed odd to me that some thin people get problems attributed to overweight, yet some overweight people are perfectly fine.
Well, it turns out that your body lays down fat in an attempt to protect you from too much food. This means that people who are able to store a lot of fat have a wide margin of safety, but people who are unable to store much fat in their tissues (like me) are in a very precarious position. If we non-fat people over-eat, our bodies are unable to mop up the fat from our bloodstream and this provokes screwy immune reactions, leading to diabetes, neuropathy, and other awful stuff. This is why some extremely obese people have very few, or even no problems, yet some thin people come down with full-blown symptoms. Anybody who exceeds their body's ability to safely store fat is in for problems. We just have to remember that we all have different limits.
For the first time in my life I look kind of "normal". I've always been extremely thin, but now my legs look good and I have a little smoothness about me. Well, now I've also developed early sugar intolerance and am losing the feeling in my feet with the first stages of neuropathy. So I need to go back to looking like a scarecrow, as my body is designed to be. And I need to do it fast.
Losing weight is harder than putting it on though. I'm down to eating only breakfast most days of the week, and two or three days in the week I'll have a vegetable dinner too. However, with such a small amount of food I'm walking a tightrope and need to be extremely careful of my nutrient intake. If my body was able to handle a bit more fat this wouldn't be so difficult, but we all wish for something different in that department, right?
I have to say I'd been wondering about it for some time. It always seemed odd to me that some thin people get problems attributed to overweight, yet some overweight people are perfectly fine.
Well, it turns out that your body lays down fat in an attempt to protect you from too much food. This means that people who are able to store a lot of fat have a wide margin of safety, but people who are unable to store much fat in their tissues (like me) are in a very precarious position. If we non-fat people over-eat, our bodies are unable to mop up the fat from our bloodstream and this provokes screwy immune reactions, leading to diabetes, neuropathy, and other awful stuff. This is why some extremely obese people have very few, or even no problems, yet some thin people come down with full-blown symptoms. Anybody who exceeds their body's ability to safely store fat is in for problems. We just have to remember that we all have different limits.
For the first time in my life I look kind of "normal". I've always been extremely thin, but now my legs look good and I have a little smoothness about me. Well, now I've also developed early sugar intolerance and am losing the feeling in my feet with the first stages of neuropathy. So I need to go back to looking like a scarecrow, as my body is designed to be. And I need to do it fast.
Losing weight is harder than putting it on though. I'm down to eating only breakfast most days of the week, and two or three days in the week I'll have a vegetable dinner too. However, with such a small amount of food I'm walking a tightrope and need to be extremely careful of my nutrient intake. If my body was able to handle a bit more fat this wouldn't be so difficult, but we all wish for something different in that department, right?