quotable quotes - October 2007
"Something is going on with obesity, and it ain't just eating at McDonalds."
- Dr. Richard Atkinson, arguing recently that the obesity epidemic around the world is caused by a virus.
"The problem with reversing obesity is that in the short term, nothing feels better than eating ice cream while watching TV; the negative consequences are all long-term."
- Gary Foster, PhD, on the challenge of weight loss.
"Decades of multidisciplinary research have transformed science fiction into scientific possibility!"
- Dr. Philippe Halban, speaking at EASD about the pace and direction of scientific research on beta cell regeneration.
"Unfortunately, in this current environment where the FDA is unwilling to act, and is really impotent in many ways, the only way we get action is to directly inform the public. I would argue that while it made life tough and did create some anxiety, it also meant that a lot of people that were being harmed by a drug got to talk to their physicians about it. A lot of physicians had the opportunity to change the therapy for their patients. Frankly, wide public discussion of the Avandia affair has led to much more good than harm."
- Dr. Nissen, arguing that his meta-analysis and the subsequent media firestorm were good in the long-run for patients.
"Type 3 diabetics - the non-diabetic partners of diabetics - always think they know it all."
- Dr. Steve Edelman, discussing the challenges of a relationship between people with and without diabetes at a recent TCOYD meeting.
"Well-controlled diabetes is the leading cause of nothing."
- Dr. Bill Polonsky underscoring that diabetes is, as he put it, "not a death sentence."
