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Why study sled dogs when vegan diet can help diabetes?

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ensorceled

April 01, 2009 01:41 AM | view on twitter

We have a large population of people who have Type II Diabetes. We will need to deal with them regardless of what we do now to prevent Type II Diabetes in the future.

Why study sled dogs when exercise can also help prevent type 2 diabetes? We could just force everybody to exercise daily with a 1984ish monitoring system. We can't enforce lifestyle choices.

It's interesting the one of the main culprits in the obesity epidemic, and hence the explosion of type 2 diabetes, is considered to be our increased consumption of sugars. I'm not sure why this article focuses on a vegan diet considering sugar and high fructose corn-syrup do not come from animal sources.

I would like to see our governments doing help people make better lifestyle choices; tax unhealthy foods, animal or vegetable, provide incentives to exercise, get more exercise into our school programs.
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/109736.php
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/Strumpf_obesityepidemic_cong2004_71...
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/Obesity/

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skywarrior

April 01, 2009 01:19 AM | view on twitter

Sled dogs process fat differently than we do. Because they are top canine athletes, they are able to take in 45-65% of their calories in fat and use it efficiently. Scientists are studying sled dogs because they process fat so efficiently that it may help people who have extraneous fat. That being said, these dogs convert fat to energy and exercise quite a bit. It would be very good if people would exercise this much -- they would be as lean as sled dogs.

Humans are omnivores and do not have the stomach or intestines of ruminants or other creatures that process a vegetarian diet, so a vegan diet is somewhat radical. Given that most people are unwilling to cut out high quality protein out of their diets despite the lecture many non meat eaters give them. I suspect that a balanced diet where people eat sensibly and exercise frequently may be the key to type 2 diabetes.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-24-dogs-diabetes_N.htm

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