Warning- the following response contains science.

I promise you, you will survive through to the other side if you take it slowly, get a glass of water, and put on some nice music for the next four minutes. I’ve tried to be as straightforward as possible, but maths tends to make some people run screaming. Google can help.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first:

You are wrong.

Here is why you are wrong:



Everybody can get diabetes. The peer reviewed scientific studies I posted (which now have 100+ notes for calling out your flawed arguments) were from the Lancet medical journal in the UK, Nature, also based in the UK, and the online article repository PeerJ. These articles are free to access for you, right now, right here. It is literally impossible to be making this up.

If you read the series of papers I linked to, you would indeed find that non obese people can, in fact, get diabetes. Diabetes does not have a magical ‘fat-people-only’ trigger built in. But wait! Look at this:

Source: Sepehri A, Palazón-Bru A, Gil-Guillén VF, Ramírez-Prado D, Navarro-Cremades F, Cortés E, Rizo-Baeza MM. (2015) Diabetes screening: a pending issue in hypertense/obese patients. PeerJ :e914 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.914

This is the same graph from my previous post- if you didn’t understand it before, I’ll go in slightly more depth for you.

(I’m sorry if this gets maths-y; if anyone reading this gets freaked out, all you need to know is that I’m right and if you disagree you’re probably wrong. Sorry to be blunt, but if I can’t get the reason why I’m right across properly, that’s on me. The only solution I have remaining is to state the conclusion outright.)

On the x axis is a grouping by fasting blood glucose in mMolxL^-1 (a measure of the severity of diabetes). On the Y axis of panel C is the predicted probability of class II obesity (you’ll notice that’s what you likely have). The fact that the p value here is below 0.001 means that these groupings, if arranged randomly, would have less than a 0.1% chance that they could fall into an arrangement that demonstrated a mathematical link between obesity and diabetes. In other words, mathematically, the only result that can make sense is that the current arrangement- the one that shows grouping by FBG levels and obesity classes.

If all that jargon confuses you, here’s another way of saying it: there is a less than 0.1% chance that obesity does not cause diabetes. Capisce?

What I have posted, and continue to post, is evidence at the social, demographic, and biochemical/molecular levels, both correlative and causative, that being obese is 100% scientifically verified to cause diabetes at a statistically significantly higher rate than those who are not obese. Being obese causes type II diabetes- the results and the jury are in. This is no longer up for debate, because the people who are smarter than both of us have shot radio waves into nanoscopic crystals in Nuclear Magnetic Resonators that take the entire Helium supply of the Southern hemisphere just to turn on have PROVEN, beyond any reasonable doubt, that obesity. causes. diabetes. These NMR machines analyse your proteins at the atomic level to solve crystal structures to demonstrate molecular functions. The same molecular functions I posted about last time that showed the causal relationship between adipocyte stimulation and diabetes-inducing inflammation.

This is the machine. That same machine- the largest one of its kind in the southern hemisphere- is right down the hall from me. Right now. If you walk past it with a metal toolbox, it is so magnetically powerful it rips it out of your hand as the toolbox blasts through three glass walls and sticks to the side of the machine. If you don’t believe me, I’ll go and take a nice selfie for you behind the exclusion zone where I can take a photo without my phone liquefying into a several-hundred-thousand-dollar industrial accident.

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn off- and vents all of the superconducting magnet cooling liquid Helium in the process. I’m saying this as an anecdote to show you that *these people, who devote their lives to trying to save yours* do not fuck around. They do not get things wrong, because when the people make a mistake, they have wasted millions of dollars, countless man-hours and half the Helium output of the entire planet over the last six months.

I do not yet have a doctorate in this field. I cannot speak on behalf of the people who do. But let me fucking assure you that when I say these people know their shit, I am telling you the truth, and I am telling you it to save your life. Obesity. Does. Cause. Diabetes. It causes heart disease. It causes joint pain, fibromyalgia, atherosclerosis, cancer, stroke, and, eventually, death.

If you disagree, you are wrong. I have demonstrated that through both anecdotes and peer reviewed, world renowned scientific journals that unequivocally state that I am correct.

Source: Bonnie J. Brehm, Randy J. Seeley, Stephen R. Daniels, and David A. D’Alessio. (2013). A Randomized Trial Comparing a Very Low Carbohydrate Diet and a Calorie-Restricted Low Fat Diet on Body Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Healthy Women. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 88, No 4. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2002-021480



This graph shows how you can decrease your body weight by sticking to a simply laid out diet. This study involved 44 women such as yourself and found very significant results (p<0.001). It’s from a well respected, peer reviewed journal. As you can probably see, the better option is a very low carbohydrate diet, but both are clearly working to reduce body weight.





But why? Why am I being such a dickhead?

Because, believe it or not, I care about you.

You’ve sent me angry message after angry message, and all I want for you is to change what you eat so that you won’t die young and in pain. I am pleading with you. I am pleading with you because that is the only option I have left to help you.

Please don’t make me cry for you. Everybody in my building, everybody in every lab, hospital, and public health department is working their asses off right now, all to try to help you.

You either will not or cannot see reason. Your obesity can be changed. Every scientist I have ever met knows this is true. Every doctor I have ever met knows what will happen to you if you don’t. I am crying now because if the past four days I have spent replying to message after message trying to do enough research and persuasion to help you doesn’t help, all the studies I’ve read, all the science I’ve done, will be in vain.

That’s why I’m being a “mother fucker”, a “fucking idiot”, and a “sick fuck”- among other choice phrases from you and other anonymous messengers. Because I know that every study I have read tells me that if you don’t lose weight -now-, right now, you will die. You will die young. This goes for you and any obese person- the more obese, the more dangerous the condition. It’s called morbid obesity for a reason. You will die in pain, you will suffer a stroke or a heart attack or oedema or diabetes, you will lose teeth or hair or speech or feeling in your extremities, and it will all have been preventable if I had tried harder.

Please don’t make me beg.

