Posted on 08/27/2024 8:16:54 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat fewer servings, and the risk increases with greater consumption, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They also found that replacing red meat with healthy plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, or modest amounts of dairy foods, was associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.
The study was published on Thursday, October 19, in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
“Our findings strongly support dietary guidelines that recommend limiting the consumption of red meat, and this applies to both processed and unprocessed red meat,” said first author Xiao Gu, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Nutrition.
While previous studies have found a link between red meat consumption and type 2 diabetes risk, this study, which analyzed a large number of type 2 diabetes cases among participants being followed for an extended period of years, adds a greater level of certainty about the association.
Type 2 diabetes rates are increasing rapidly in the U.S. and worldwide. This is concerning not only because the disease is a serious burden, but it also is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney disease, cancer, and dementia.
For this study, the researchers analyzed health data from 216,695 participants from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), NHS II, and Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS). Diet was assessed with food frequency questionnaires every two to four years, for up to 36 years. During this time, more than 22,000 participants developed type 2 diabetes.
The researchers found that consumption of red meat, including processed and unprocessed red meat, was strongly associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Participants who ate the most red meat had a 62% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to those who ate the least. Every additional daily serving of processed red meat was associated with a 46% greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and every additional daily serving of unprocessed red meat was associated with a 24% greater risk.
The researchers also estimated the potential effects of substituting one daily serving of red meat for another protein source. They found that substituting a serving of nuts and legumes was associated with a 30% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, and substituting a serving of dairy products was associated with a 22% lower risk.
“Given our findings and previous work by others, a limit of about one serving per week of red meat would be reasonable for people wishing to optimize their health and wellbeing,” said senior author Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition.
In addition to health benefits, swapping red meat for healthy plant protein sources would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and provide other environmental benefits, according to the researchers.
Other Harvard Chan School authors included Frank Sacks and Frank Hu.
The NHS, NHS II, and HPFS are supported by the National Institute of Health (grants UM1 CA186107, U01 CA176726, and U01 CA167552).
“Red meat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study of US females and males,” Xiao Gu, Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier, Frank M. Sacks, Frank B. Hu, Bernard Rosner, Walter C. Willett, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, October 19, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.08.021
Yet here we have doctor's advising basically everyone to shun "red" meat, a rich source of carbohydrate-free nutrition.
Note the article does not advise different forms of meat (i.e., not "red" meat), but pushes plant-based protiens. And also tosses in a throwaway line about "greenhouse gas", "climate change", and "environmental benefits".
Is this just pure propaganda?
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Gee thanks, Harvard.
I’ll continue living my life as I choose, and eating what I choose.
Oh, Baloney! BEEF baloney, to be exact. I smell NWO.
“propaganda” - that was my initial reaction. I don’t trust government or libtard institution generated studies.
Red meat is not the issue.
Being a fat ass is the issue with 95% of type II diabetics.
“Is this just pure propaganda?”
In a word......YES
Harvard, how many genders do you think there are?
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Propaganda.
Bravo sierra.
You wanna know how to tell?
Check put what’s on the menu in every government’s chi chi dining rooms. The ones the great unwashed, aka taxpayers, don’t get to see or use.
Meat. It’s what’s for Deep State’s dinner.
Lunch and breakfast, too.
But then they can afford it, can’t they.
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“Is this just pure propaganda?”
It’s Harvard.
Yes.
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IMO politically motivated study, propaganda. The push poll of “research papers” Harvard...
There are so many papers being recalled due to poor protocols and erroneous conclusions that I take everything with a cup of salt (not just a pinch).
So many ways to make a paper support preconceived ends that I ignore papers that support leftist doctrine. Think of all the phony climate change papers.
They can have my red meat when they pry it from my cold neuropathy ridden hands.
Actually, there’s a new discovery about C15 a fatty acid found in butter and red meat. And a deficiency in that allows iron build up that may be associated with diabetes type 2, if I recall correctly. So red meat could be related due to iron but insufficient butter seems to be the culprit.
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Hey Haw-vud: correlation is not causation. A pox on your monkey, ya putz!
About the only thing that everyone has consistently agreed on is no refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
Given all of the other advice we've received it's maybe time to load up on sugar and high fructose corn syrup!
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...but you can't tell him much.
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