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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      HAHAHA THIS IS THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I'VE EVER SEEN Seriously, what total garbagepic.twitter.com/34g1ZRaG2l

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      Showed this to my wife - the specialist veterinary surgeon - and she giggled

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      Firstly, NOTHING CURES DIABETES It is a chronic disease with no 'cure', per se. You can reduce your blood sugar to below the diagnostic threshold, but currently we are not sure if that fully reverses symptoms or just reduces your risk significantly

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      Cats are obligate carnivores, they HAVE to eat meat or they'll die. T2DM is also very rare in cats, most diabetic kitties get Type 1

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      Dogs are omnivores, they'll eat pretty much anything in the wild This is evident when you seen them munching on a towel that had some gravy spilled on it

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      Humans are even better at being omnivores. We ate pretty much everything in the wild You can see this now - people can lose weight on virtually every diet that we've tried. They just tend to put it back on, and then some

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      So yeh, a hilarious and ridiculous meme Even if the first 2 statements made sense, why would feline and canine strategies work in people? Just absurd

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

      P.S. I got my kitty facts the wrong way around - T2DM is more common in cats, but they are both very rare. Probably somewhere around 0.5% of the population total

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

          Also, if you want some references, here is an excellent review of the evidence for various dietary patterns and weightloss/diabetes https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2234 …pic.twitter.com/P9zyzgf9Ma

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

          And here are various systematic reviews demonstrating that pretty much any dietary pattern imaginable - high carb, high fat, IF - can help with diabetes: https://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(18)30220-6/abstract … https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168822717311713 … https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo2016175 …https://journals.lww.com/jbisrir/Abstract/2018/02000/Intermittent_fasting_interventions_for_treatment.16.aspx …

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

          Also worth noting that the same thing is true for pretty much all these diets - at 1-2 years, most of them fail, because diet isn't all about food!pic.twitter.com/HB5Tc8xitJ

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Oct 2018

          Also, I made my own meme and I think it's EVEN BETTER than the originalpic.twitter.com/0foVL0zijX

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