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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Caveat: Pancreatic Burnout.
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 22:19:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 22:19:11 1985
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	Several people in this newsgroup have repeated an unsupported 
assumption that 'Pancreatic Burnout' is caused by high levels of sugar
consumption, and that this burnout leads to Diabetes.

	The same result can be obtained by assuming that the pancreas would
slowly atrophy with age regardless of sugar intake, and the only way you
would ever notice it, is if you tried to overload with too much sugar. The
more sugar you consume, the earlier it would be detected.

	The clinical results are indistinguishable, but you can clearly see
that in the first instance, sugar is to blame, in the second it isn't.
	Current evidence suggests that the second model is closer to the
truth in a majority of cases.

	(Just trying to keep people's dogmas honest.)

-- 
				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"