If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
"Les Matheson" wrote in message
news:UilYa.9329$ug.988@lakeread01 Well, speaking of uniforms, has anyone seen the new Air Force blue/grey BDU? Seems the powers that be are tired of being mistaken for soldiers. Didn't we have blue fatigues once upon a time? Just posted a new thread on the topic. Strikingly inspired by the "kewl" new Marine utilities. -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed) |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
"Vee-One" wrote MSgt (sel) Peter Vierps ^^^^^^^^ Congrats. Pete |
#23
|
|||
|
|||
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:15:05 GMT, "S. Sampson" wrote:
"Walter Luffman" wrote I'll speak to this as someone who was "pushed out the gate for being too fat"; turned out I was developing Type 2 diabetes, but that's beside the point. No it's not! Type-2 is due to obesity in almost all cases. Incorrect. VERY incorrect. Type 2 diabetes is often linked to obesity, but that is not the same as saying that one causes the other. Current thinking (at least among the doctors and Certified Diabetes Instructors I know) is that something -- probably a genetic factor -- is the most common cause for both Type 2 and obesity. FWIW, I have an uncle (my mother's sister's husband, no blood relation) who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes just this past week. He's 70 years old, tall and lean, a lifelong athlete who still plays golf at least three days a week (yes, he uses a cart -- the two-wheeled kind you pull). But Type 2 diabetes is common in his family, he halfway expected to develop diabetes sooner or later. OTOH, my maternal grandmother's family included a number of diabetics (apparently both Type 1 and Type 2, although not known as such then) as blood relatives. My maternal grandfather's close kin included a few Type 2 diabetics. Both of them were obese most of their adult lives. He died at age 83 of acute lymphocytic leukemia. She lived to be nearly 91; she died of chronic leukemia. Neither ever had any symptoms of diabetes, nor did the many blood tests they received ever show elevated blood glucose. (They were tested routinely when blood was drawn for tracking the leukemia's progress, at least until near the very end.) I'm not suggesting that obesity causes leukemia, of course. I'm just pointing out that skinny people sometimes develop Type 2 diabetes and obese people sometimes escape it. In many cases it's strictly a matter of genetic predisposition and time. ___ Walter Luffman Medina, TN USA Amateur curmudgeon, equal-opportunity annoyer |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Propeller for aircraft engine ground test | Guy Deraspe | Home Built | 0 | July 21st 04 04:41 AM |
FAA Knowledge Test Results | Richard Moore | Instrument Flight Rules | 4 | October 12th 03 07:10 AM |