Is obesity a disability?

[Johnny Canuck3]

What makes them senile? Old age doesn't automatically mean senility.

Step away from the doughnuts—if not for your body, then for your brain. There’s growing evidence that eating sugary, processed foods can trigger what some experts are calling "Type 3 Diabetes": brain-altering Alzheimer’s disease.
While the concept of Alzheimer’s as brain diabetes isn't new to some researchers, it recently gained attention after prominent food writer Mark Bittman covered the topic in a New York Times column. So what is it exactly?
Suzanne de La Monte, MD, a neuropathologist at Brown University whose team coined the term type 3 diabetes says that, according to her research, consuming too much sugar can lead to insulin resistance in the brain—a very bad thing. “We found that by making the brains of rats insulin resistant, the rats developed an Alzheimer-like disease pattern, including neurodegeneration,” she says.

http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/alzheimers-type-3-diabetes

 

[equationgirl]

http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/alzheimers-type-3-diabetes

All very interesting, but a) has this theory been accepted by the wider scientific community through the results being reproduced and b) what happens in rats does not necessarily happen in humans.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

All very interesting, but a) has this theory been accepted by the wider scientific community through the results being reproduced and b) what happens in rats does not necessarily happen in humans.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657152

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23680940

http://www.worldhealth.net/news/carbs-sugars-raise-risk-alzheimers-disease/

http://www.alzheimers.net/2014-01-02/foods-that-induce-memory-loss/

http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/0...-sugar-even-for-those-without-diabetes-study/

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...et-in-midlife-slashes-dementia-by-90-per-cent

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/seniors-diet-may-contribute-to-dementia-022414

 

[equationgirl]

And if you look at the links most of them say 'may prove a risk' or 'may induce memory loss', indicating that it's not yet conclusively proven.

 

[ViolentPanda]

and once again 'right on ' denziens of Urban start with ad hominem attacks towards those who don;t share their own inaccurate and biased position .

This is known as "projection".

unfortunately there are people who object to involvement of healthcare in things beyond what their own narrow definition of the role of healthcare should be - you only need to look at the inaccurate crap being trotted aobut about WCA - how dare people be assessed using criteria, how dare the assessors actually use all the information rather than a constructed sub set ... it;s funny how alot of the stuff in the WCA process is the same stuff that is decades old in Occupational health ...

Have you scrutinised the ESA forms; the WCA "schedule"; the manual for the LIMA software program that the"Healthcare Professionals" carrying out the WCAs use; the "decision-maker's manual" that the DWP issue their adjudicators with?
I'm reckoning that you're acquainted with the sum of FUCK ALL of any of the above, but being a knob-shine, you like to give it the biggun to imply you've got a clue.
Several of us on here, who help others fill in their forms and undertake the various processes for appeals, are acquainted with the stuff listed above, on the premise that knowing how the opposition thinks means that we can try to make sure fewer people get shat on, or as a twat like you might put it, "fairly turned down".

then there are all the anti-psychiatry loons and those who don't want to see chronic conditions physical or mental which have multiple impacts on health as part of of the things health should look at

there is huge tension between Health Professionals and Social workers, especially over the way in which social workers interpret presumption of Capacity and often don't give weight to the views of Nurses and care staff who have been observing the behaviours and actions of individuals fare more often and for far greater periods than anyone from social work has ...

Social workers have nothing to do with presumptions of capacity with regard to the Work Capability Assessment for Education and Support Allowance, so your point is meaningless. the "healthcare professionals" used by ATOS, except for occupational therapists, are all drawn from medical roles, not from the ranks of social workers, so differentiation between weighting given by social workers and medical staff is as irrelevant as most of the rest of your posts.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Wtf?

Think of it as a Littlejohnian stream-of-consciousness. It really is that worthless and wrongheaded.

 

[ViolentPanda]

And what I said was hardly an ad hominem attack, zippyRN

Your track record speaks for you, and it doesn't say great things.

His track record sings "you're shit, and you know you are" to the tune of "Go West!" by The Pet Shop Boys at him.

 

[ViolentPanda]

are we goiung to play semantics , you only need look at the the posts telling me to fuck off calling me a cunt and various other insulrs to see that you don't view me as a person with feeling, concerns and worries of my own , in fact demionstrating all the behaviours you so casually accuse me of .

Cunt is as cunt does. You've acted like a cunt, so I've called you a cunt. If that's the primary character trait you choose to present, then you shouldn't be surprised when people take that as a lens through which to view you.
BTW, genius, the "rules" here are that robust comment (including foul language) are allowed.

 

[equationgirl]

Cunt is as cunt does. You've acted like a cunt, so I've called you a cunt. If that's the primary character trait you choose to present, then you shouldn't be surprised when people take that as a lens through which to view you.
BTW, genius, the "rules" here are that robust comment (including foul language) are allowed.

Also if anybody persists in acting like a dick they will get challenged on it.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

And if you look at the links most of them say 'may prove a risk' or 'may induce memory loss', indicating that it's not yet conclusively proven.

It's an interesting idea that is gaining acceptance, and that is being examined in an increasing number of studies.

There seems to be little dispute that too much sugar, salt, additives etc are harmful to many organs in the body. The brain is just another organ in the body. It would be surprising if it alone is immune to the negative effects of these various harmful substances.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Also, looking at the wording of the links, you might be misrepresenting what they say.

To aggravate this scenario, it has been consistently shown that T2D is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657152

Published studies suggest that greater adherence to Mediterranean diet is associated with slower cognitive decline and lower risk of developing Alzheimer disease

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23680940

 

[equationgirl]

Also, looking at the wording of the links, you might be misrepresenting what they say.



http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657152



http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23680940

That says type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimers. What it doesn't say is that definitely the 'type 3 diabetes/insulin resistance in the brain' you mentioned in post #571 has been proven in humans. Are the two things actually the same thing? Don't know.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think that the studies add further weight to the argument that a balanced diet of reasonable proportion, as free of added sugar, salt, chemicals and additives as possible, is a good thing for people to try and adhere to.

 

[bluescreen]

Ta, Johnny, but some of us don't need further weight adding to anything, even arguments.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ta, Johnny, but some of us don't need further weight adding to anything, even arguments.

Me included!

 

[Louis MacNeice]

and once again 'right on ' denziens of Urban start with ad hominem attacks towards those who don;t share their own inaccurate and biased position .

unfortunately there are people who object to involvement of healthcare in things beyond what their own narrow definition of the role of healthcare should be - you only need to look at the inaccurate crap being trotted aobut about WCA - how dare people be assessed using criteria, how dare the assessors actually use all the information rather than a constructed sub set ... it;s funny how alot of the stuff in the WCA process is the same stuff that is decades old in Occupational health ...

then there are all the anti-psychiatry loons and those who don't want to see chronic conditions physical or mental which have multiple impacts on health as part of of the things health should look at

there is huge tension between Health Professionals and Social workers, especially over the way in which social workers interpret presumption of Capacity and often don't give weight to the views of Nurses and care staff who have been observing the behaviours and actions of individuals fare more often and for far greater periods than anyone from social work has ...

Nicely done! I just really hope you're not a psychiatric nurse. Indeed looking at the ignorance and inability to communicate clearly demonstrated in your contributions to this thread, I am tempted to hope that you aren't actually a registered nurse at all.

Dr Louis MacNeice

p.s. as an educator I've been helping nurses achieve registration at both diploma an degree level, in both adult and mental health fields for 20 years.