"Randi weighs more than 300 pounds and has borderline diabetes, but she controls her blood sugar and keeps her bright outlook on life by swimming every day for about 45 minutes."
Something is wrong with this picture. Not denying that exercise is good, but clearly, in this case, it is not enough.
I am confused - I have read several times that diabetes (the acquired type) can be controlled with the right diet, so that you don't have symptoms anymore and don't need medication (for example in Kurzweill's books, and in "The China Study"). So why are there still people like that? I don't think they are getting the right treatment, and they are kidding themselves with the 45 minutes exercise.
If someone weighs 300lb's then they are probably weigh 100+ pounds more than their goal weight which works out to around 350,000+ calories. Fixing that would take not eating for 3 months or a long term solution like 45 minutes of exercise a day.
Chances are if she keeps that up for 1-2 years she will have lost a lot of weight but nothing is a magic bullet at that level of weight.
Sure there is no quick fix. I am just worried that people will lull themselves into feeling they are doing something, while they still remain dependent on the pharmaceutic industry. Which would be exactly what the pharmaceutic industry would like.
Something is wrong with this picture. Not denying that exercise is good, but clearly, in this case, it is not enough.
I am confused - I have read several times that diabetes (the acquired type) can be controlled with the right diet, so that you don't have symptoms anymore and don't need medication (for example in Kurzweill's books, and in "The China Study"). So why are there still people like that? I don't think they are getting the right treatment, and they are kidding themselves with the 45 minutes exercise.