Pink Meat and Diabetes Danger

Pink meat consumption — whether or not processed or not — was linked to onset of sort 2 diabetes within the U.S. in response to a 2023 article in American Journal of Medical Vitamin. The analysis was a long-term observational research by principally Harvard-based scientists. Among the many authors that is perhaps acquainted to you might be Walter Willett, Frank Hu, and Frank Sacks. Click on the hyperlink for the deets.

This doesn’t show that pink meat consumption causes diabetes. However should you get pleasure from a good or excessive quantity of pink meat, you may profit by reducing again, particularly if diabetes runs in your loved ones. I’d additionally counsel common train and avoiding obese and weight problems to cut back your dangers of sort 2 diabetes. The creator counsel pink meat alternate options: nuts, legumes, dairy meals.

In the identical journal problem is a commentary by Daan Kremer. Some snippets:

The present observational research is unlikely to finish the dialogue on whether or not pink meat consumption will increase danger of sort 2 diabetes and even much less prone to finish the epistemological debates on grade high quality of observational proof when many efforts are made to cut back bias and confounding.

+ + +

All in all, the research by Gu et al. could arguably be the perfect proof up to now on the relation between pink meat consumption and sort 2 diabetes. But by some means, I really feel that the books haven’t been closed.

  Steve Parker, M.D.