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...While magnesium played a positive role in reducing type II diabetes risk in both studies, the results of the two studies were not identical. The WHS team concluded that only overweight and obese women would have a reduced risk of type II diabetes onset with increased magnesium intake, whereas the NHS study found that both men and women of all weight groups would have decreased type II diabetes risk...
...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...
...added that his findings on dietary magnesium intake were independent of BMI and thus would not have changed with a different BMI index. He defended his study as possibly more accurate than the WHS study because of the larger pool of participants in the NHS group...
Despite the disagreements, both studies indicated that increased dietary magnesium intake was good for the general population. According to both reports, Americans do not ingest the recommended levels of magnesium, which has recently become a speculative factor contributing to the increasing rate of type II diabetes onset...
...December 2003 study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, also performed by Harvard scientists, speculated that “higher dietary magnesium intake may reduce the risk of developing type II diabetes” because women with higher magnesium consumption tended to have greater insulin sensitivity. Decreased insulin sensitivity, also known as insulin fasting, is the immediate cause of type II diabetes...