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Record W2146037252 · doi:10.1071/he06091

Health promotion when the ‘vaccine’ does not work

2006· review· en· W2146037252 on OpenAlexaff
Jay Wortman

Bibliographic record

VenueHealth Promotion Journal of Australia · 2006
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDiet and metabolism studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineBlameType 2 diabetesInsulin resistanceAppetiteMetabolic syndromeConsumption (sociology)Weight lossPublic healthGerontologyHarmEnvironmental healthObesityIntensive care medicineDiabetes mellitusEndocrinologyPsychologySocial psychologyPsychiatryNursing

Abstract

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The epidemics of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes have worsened over the past decades. During this time our preventive and therapeutic approach (the 'vaccine'), consisting of a low-fat diet and exercise, has remained fundamentally unchanged. A case is made that these conditions are inter-related and may be caused by a single underlying factor related to the carbohydrate content of diet. The validity of the present approach is challenged when those most knowledgeable in its application succumb to diseases it is meant to prevent. Others argue against the status quo that a low-carbohydrate diet may be more beneficial. A strong belief in the present approach discouraged research into low-carbohydrate diets until recently. Several studies have now demonstrated their benefits and are refuting old claims that they cause harm. Aboriginal people suffer more acutely from the epidemics in question and their dietary history suggests that a sudden increase in carbohydrates is to blame. Recent studies and a case history demonstrate that carbohydrate consumption can drive appetite and over-eating while carbohydrate restriction leads to weight loss and improvement in the markers for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. The growing evidence in support of low-carbohydrate diets will encounter resistance from economic interests threatened by changes in consumption patterns.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.782
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.204
GPT teacher head0.453
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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