Does consuming red meat lead to diabetes?
Does eliminating red meat prevent diabetes?
The answers to these two complex questions could hold an important key to healing not only ourselves as individuals, but ourselves as a country and our entire healthcare system. According to a new study published in the June 17th JAMA Internal Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal published twice per month by the American Medical Association, eating red meat over time is associated with a higher probability of developing Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is the most common form of the disease in this country.
First, let’s look at the staggering numbers…..
Important Statistics on Diabetes from the American Diabetes Association:
• About 8.3% of the US population has diabetes which translates into 28.8 million children and adults.
• 79 million people are considered pre-diabetic
• 1.9 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 and older in 2010
• complications of diabetes include heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney failure, severe nervous system damage, amputation
• total cost of diagnosed diabetes in the US in 1012: $245 billion
The new study, citied in JAMA Internal Medicine, was the first of its kind to track people who ate red meat over a long period of time. Previous studies had been done over shorter time periods. There were a total of over 149,000 people participating in three separate Harvard studies of health professionals. These subjects did not have diabetes at the start of the study for 12 to 16 years.
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Ellen Francis
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