http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/14/comments The latest comments on the article 'Review on "Atkins Diabetes Revolution: The Groundbreaking Approach to Preventing and Controlling Type 2 Diabetes"by Mary C. Vernon and Jacqueline A. Eberstein' 2010-01-11T00:00:00Z This is an RSS newsfeed from BioMed Central It is intended to be used with an RSS reader. For more information about RSS newsfeeds from BioMed Central, visit http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/rss/ http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/14/comments#385690 <p> You seem to have not quite grasped a couple of basic points about the science in paragraph 6. <br/> For one thing, type II diabetes is not a disorder of insulin production but of insulin response - the pancreas is still producing insulin, but for some reason the body's tissues don't react to it as much as they used to. <br/> Secondly, references 5 and 6 are not, as you imply, randomised control trials. One is a meta-analysis of 13 cohort studies and one is a cohort study itself. This is stated quite clearly in the abstracts. <br/> Third, while poor glycaemic control and post-prandial hyperglycaemia were cited as independent risk factors for all-cause mortality, they were not cited as risk factors specifically for cardiovascular disease. <br/> I'm sure you'll correct these errors in due course. <br/></p> John Richards 2010-01-11T00:00:00Z