Is Your Full Figure an Increased Risk for Diabetes?

re: Is Your Full Figure an Increased Risk for Diabetes?

saynotoquacks — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:29:23 GMT

This sounds like just another way for the medical system to turn women against their own bodies. They love to make us feel that our bodies are cancer factories. When we fear and hate our bodies, they gain control over us.

Cosmetics, synthetic hormones, and steroids in meat all cause breast enlargement, type II diabetes, and cancer.

AGAIN THEY ARE CONFUSING CORRELATION WITH CAUSE AND EFFECT!

re: Is Your Full Figure an Increased Risk for Diabetes?

pozer84 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:56:27 GMT

Back in high school I was (is) 5'6 and weighed 107 with a D cup size. After my 1st kid, I went up to 145 with a DD cup. I'm doomed! My cousin who had an A cup in high school and still does to this day (25 years later) has diabetes - she's also around 15lbs lighter than me. My blood sugar so far has been fine.

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rajsanand — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:28 GMT

I think this is another one of those junk researches. I dont believe that Dr. Mercola is endorsing it.

But I think he has pointed out one fact thought that the breast size is also large in obese patients.

I am very sure if these people who had large breast sizes were really obese then, just asking those 92000 people to recall their waist sizes would have been a good idea.

I think this is misleading science. Like Dr. Mercola said that fat people will also have large breast size so it means that fat people are at the risk of diabetes.

I think this research is very subtly trying to destroy the truth that fat people are at a risk of diabetes.

So they are going for breast because people know that breasts size are not controlled by oneself.

If you notice the research asks them for their bra size and not their cup size. I have seen slightly overweight people who dont have a large cup size but have a big bra size of above 36.

I believe that one can have large breasts while still being thin. I know of a girl who had large breasts and she would keep telling me it is cup size not the bra size. Cause I would compare her with a girl who had very small breast and her size was 32 and my friends was only 34 but hear breast were atleast double the size.

When this "large breasted" friend of mine put on weight her bra size increased to 38.

Coming to the point they are trying to de-link the risk of diabetes from obesity(waist size) and trying to make it a genetic link by connnecting it to breast size.

Like someone pointed out this will give a lot of people to say that they are diabetic because they had a large breast size and will continue drinking the soda and eating fast food.

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paulabob — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:55 GMT

Is estrogen dominance linked to insulin resistance? If so , this study could be onto something for us ladies.

It certainly fits my profile (though not diabetic yet...working on lowcarbing back to a normal weight and um, cup size!). I would love to have a normal figure and be pear shaped...would gladly give my excess chest away. Causes frequent yeast infections, and is expensive to find a good g cup bra! My a cup fraternal twinsister is certainly much "perkier" looking at 38 than I EVER was, even at 17!

re: Is Your Full Figure an Increased Risk for Diabetes?

Tchr — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:56:11 GMT

Let's clear up a few things, folks. The article is NOT saying larger breasts are the only criterion for having diabetes. Larger breasts CAN (not always) mean the woman with them is overweight. Any excess weight predisposes someone for health problems. Having excess fat DOES mean the person has extra estrogen and some degree of insulin resistance, since insulin resistance is what contributes to fat storage...and this, at some point, CAN become diabetes. It does not happen all of the time. I have had insulin resistance for approximately 23 years (in hindsight, it began at puberty --yes, I was overweight-- and developed rapidly), and do not have diabetes. I do, however, now have severe hypoglycemia which is difficult to control unless I eat wisely (no sugar, complex carbs only, moderate protein). I also happen to be a 36DD. Do I blame my health woes on my breasts? Obviously not, however, were I thinner, I have no doubt my glucose regulation problems would be minimized (and oddly, if I were thinner, I would probably have smaller breasts. I can assume this because when I WAS thin--in high school and dieting strictly--I was about a 34B).The pancreas can only pump out sufficient enough amounts of insulin for so long before it tires out or the cells simply cannot function correctly any longer.

While we have a genetic predisposition to breast size and even to certain diseases like diabetes, it doesn't mean we can't change our current state of health .

SECONDLY, as an English teacher, I can safely say that "up" is both an adverb and a preposition depending upon its use in a sentence.

LASTLY, as a full-figured woman--while I don't advocate telling women that being a size 0 is the only way to go, being overweight is a health problem, regardless of one's self esteem. No one is "picking on" overweight women in this article--merely pointing out a fairly obviously fact. Larger women CAN get diabetes and larger women often--but not always--have larger, NATURAL breasts. Period.

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catlovr1418 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:03:07 GMT

this has to be the dumbest study I have ever heard of

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mrose — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:38:45 GMT

Okay - don't know why this just hit me - but why are they picking on women here? Isn't the rate of diabetes among the male population rising proportionately? Is there a study being done on their breasts? And, I have seen men who have bigger breasts than I (or is that me?) I think the rise in weight is spread (excuse the pun) equally among men, women, and children and subsequent increases in diabetes are being seen proportionately (anyone, please correct me if I am wrong). So, those boobs who did this study might need to study all boobs - just to be fair!!

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mrose — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:59:04 GMT

I don't wear a bra and haven't for 30 years!! So don't know what size I would wear and don't care. How many of you have read "Dressed to Kill". I understand that there are implications in that book that wearing bras (particularly padded and ones with bones) will heat up the lymphatic fluids in our breasts, which might be an implication in breast cancer!! (that's not why I stopped wearing one - but I did take that information to heart). I don't know, I'm beginning to believe that all of these implications as to why we are not healthy or actually sick are simply distractions - to stop us from thinking about the real reasons we are getting sicker and sicker, i.e. the fuel we put in our bodies, our toxic thoughts and other environmental factors that are not being corrected in a timely manner.

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Mari Safari1 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:40:57 GMT

I don't think there is a direct correlation between having a large chest and being obese. This is unreliable information and it assumes something that isn't neccessarily true. I think there is not enough advocacy for being full figured. The size of a persons breasts is determined by their DNA, not their weight. There are obese women with small breasts and normal weight women with larger breasts.

re: Do Big Breasts Up Diabetes Risk?

Kissamee — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:48:45 GMT

I don't have big breasts yet I have type2 Diabetes.... lol
Kel

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miragemama — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:34:34 GMT

What about penis size? Are men with big penis's healthier then men with small ones? And what about the "averaged" sized one's? It is like being a middle child...you don't get noticed to much.......LOL!

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Maj_203 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:52:07 GMT

Let me get this straight...

Researchers arrived at their conclusions by asking women what their bra size was two decades previously? When 75% of women don't even know what size bra they're supposed to be wearing?

I'm sorry, but bra size is not a scientific number. You can't control for brand differences, design differences, and comfort adjustments (buying a larger chest size with smaller cup because your torso's too short for the larger underwire, for example).

This is a joke, right? People didn't actually get paid to do this, did they? Did anyone actually learn anything from this "study?"

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samurai — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:25:01 GMT

Uh, why did they have a muscular woman with a couple of fake breasts illustrate the point? What dorks.
They could have called me . Geeeez.

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Katie B — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:17:24 GMT

The bigger they are, the harder (er, lower) they fall.

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Katee Roux — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:31:43 GMT

So tell me, just exactly how is this helpful information?

You either are, or are not large breasted at that age. Especially at a normal weight.

I weighed 118 in high school, am 5'4" tall, & wore a D/DD cup size. Now what does this info do but increase someone's anxiety if they are this size. I didn't have any control over this size.

I'm tired of scare tactics.