HEALTH: Red Meat - Diabetes Link in Older Women

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me to post this item which came in yesterday from SoFlaVegans. It should

cheer all of us.

 

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of

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Eating Red Meat UPS Diabetes Risk in Older Women

Reuters Health

Thursday, September 9, 2004

 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_19993.html

 

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle age and elderly women whose diets

include a lot of red meat appear to have an increased risk of

developing diabetes, according to a report in the medical journal

Diabetes Care.

 

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 Care, September 2004.