Thanks for the additional input. I'd caution to be wary of abstracts that
only cite the area under the insulin curve as related to baseline. For a
glucose-containing meal, a significant portion of the 4-hour curve is below
baseline. Therefore, area is subtracted. Thus the peak insulin values for
the glucose-only and protein-only meals would almost certainly have a ratio
well in excess of the 100:28 ratio cited.

The population for the Westphal study consisted of four normal males and
three normal females ranging in age from 27-54 years, all within 5% of
desirable body weight according to the 1959 Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company tables. All participants had ingested a diet containing greater
than 200g carbohydrate per day with adequate food energy for 3 days before
testing. Testing was done following an overnight fast of 10-14 hours.

At 04:29 PM 02/21/2001 -0500, Ming wrote:
>Faigin cites three papers, the most recent of which is the 1990 paper by
>Westphal that John presented in his post.  The abstract of one of the other
>two papers, pasted below, claims a 28% relative area under the insulin
>curve above baseline.