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Red Meat Increases
Diabetes Risk
posted September 21, 2004
Middle age and elderly women whose
diets include a lot of red meat appear to have an increased risk of developing
diabetes. Dr. Simin Liu, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and
colleagues examined the association between red meat consumption and the risk of
type 2 diabetes, the type that doesn't necessarily require insulin.
A total of 37,309 participants in the Women's Health Study were followed for an
average of 8.8 years. The subjects were at least 45 years of age, and had never
been diagnosed with heart disease, stroke, cancer, or diabetes when the study
began. Food questionnaires were used to determine how much red meat the subjects
ate.
During the study, 1558 women were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Women who at the highest amounts of red meat were 28 percent more likely to
develop diabetes than their peers who ate the lowest amounts. In terms of
specific meats linked to diabetes, bacon and hot dogs were identified as two of
the worst offenders.
Source: Diabetes In Control.com: Diabetes Care, September 2004.
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