Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

On 5/17/2024 12:07 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

On 5/17/24 07:41, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/17/2024 7:25 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2024-05-17, Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
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I wonder what a vaccine against sugar would do
to public health?

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I'll go out on a limb and say that you can't train the immune system
against the common, simple, nutritionally relevant sugars.
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Ya, you _really_ don't want a glucose vaccine....
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No, you don't. This could be called diabetes, where you literally can't use the glucose in your food.
 

A diabetic still processes glucose, just not as well.  A COMPLETE inability to process glucose would cause death by starvation and there wouldn't be any way to stop it.
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