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...Assistant Professor of Medicine Simin Liu, the senior author in the WHS findings, said he believed that the studies differed because of varying definitions of what it means to be overweight. For the WHS study, a person was labeled overweight if her Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of total body fat, was above 25—the lower limit of the overweight category as defined by the National Institutes of Health...
...Liu said he believed that the results of the NHS study would mirror the results of the WHS study—indicating that only overweight and obese people would benefit from magnesium intake—if the two studies had both used the standard 25 BMI measure...
...study doesn’t show any supplemental effect of magnesium, only of magnesium-rich foods,” said Liu, who also contributed to the NHS study. “This suggests that there may be something else in those foods that works with magnesium to reduce diabetes risk. For now, I can only recommend foods that are rich in magnesium...
...Liu both said that there should be more experimental research performed to better assess the effects of magnesium and magnesium supplements on type II diabetes development...
...With so many more Chinese companies poised to sell stock in Hong Kong, investors will have plenty of new opportunities to play IPO roulette. One risk, though, is that this additional supply could put a damper on share prices. Liu of Atlantis warns that investors should stick to IPOs of big, stable companies that have solid earnings growth. "You have to be sure you know about the company and have done your homework," she says. Otherwise, you're likely to end up with a painful case of dotcom d?j?...