X-Message-Number: 24288
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:51:44 +0200
Subject: Re: better to be obese than thin
From: David Stodolsky <>

On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 05:40  AM, Doug Skrecky wrote:

> [Everyone "knows" that being fat is unhealthy. Learned Professors talk
> about the anti-aging effect of adult-onset caloric restriction. "If you
> want to live longer", "you'll have to lose weight", is the general
> consensus. Well, it's reality-check time. Below is a good article by 
> John
> Luik, followed by some Pubmed abstracts, with a few additional 
> comments.]

A few abstracts don't prove anything. It would be nice to see results 
of a meta-analysis or some other comprehensive overview. Alternatively, 
start with the evidence behind the weight guideline recommendation and 
show they are invalid.


>
> Better to be obese than thin (Junk Science)  by John Luik
>

http://www.ocat.org/opposition/consultants.html


As revealed in a June 2001 CBC TV investigative report, Luik            
           has made false statements about his academic credentials (CBC 
                      T.V. News and Current Affairs, June 21, 2001; CBC 
Television).                      For example, during Luik's 
professorship at Brock University,                      the Dean of 
Humanities, Cecil Abrahams, discovered that Luik                      
had lied about visiting professorships at other academic institutions   
                    and had added books or articles to his list of 
publications                      that did not exist. Abrahams (who is 
now Vice-Cancellor at                      West Cape University in 
South Africa) made the following statement                      about 
Luik during an interview for the CBC investigative report:

  "I certainly would not trust anything John Luik says                   
      because he must be the worst case of fraud that I have come        
                 across and I've been an administrator at universities 
for a long period of time, both in North America and in Africa, and I 
think he's by far the worst case of fraudulent behaviour."


dss


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