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Health &Wellness: Major Study Examines Meat-Diabetes Link

Author: Jennifer Corbett Dooren

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Similar to general dietary guidelines from the U.S. government, the American Diabetes Association
recommends people with diabetes eat lots of vegetables and fruit and choose whole-grain foods including dried
beans, as well as eating fish two or three times a week. The diabetes and red-meat analysis involved data from
the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study collected between 1986 and 2006, as well as information from two
groups of women in the Nurses' Health studies collected during a similar time period. ---

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People who increased their consumption of red meat during a four-year period were more likely to develop Type
2 diabetes in a subsequent four-year period, according to an analysis involving about 150,000 people.
The analysis, led by researchers at the National University of Singapore, took data from three long-running
Harvard University studies involving mostly nurses and doctors. The results were published online Monday in
JAMA Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association. The studies were funded by grants from
the National Institutes of Health.
While prior studies have also found a link between red-meat consumption and the development of Type 2
diabetes, the new analysis is believed to be the first time researchers have tracked changes in red-meat
consumption over time with the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Study participants filled out detailed
questionnaires about the types of food and drinks they consumed at the beginning of the study and every four
years. The analysis looked at some 20 years of data.
Broadly, the study showed that, compared with a group of people who had no change in red-meat intake,
increasing red-meat consumption by more than a half-serving per day over a four-year period was associated
with a 48% increase in the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes during the next four years.
However, reducing red-meat consumption by the same amount during the same time period didn't cut the risk of
diabetes during the next four years. It did reduce the risk by 14% over a longer time period, though.
The changes were independent of other factors such as body weight and overall diet quality.
"Our results confirm the robustness of the association between red meat and [Type 2 diabetes prevention] and
add further evidence that limiting red-meat consumption over time confers benefits for . . . prevention," the study
authors wrote. An Pan, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School
of Public Health, was the study's lead author.
Other doctors say red meat in and of itself isn't necessarily the trouble.
"It is not the type of protein (or meat) that is the problem; it is the type of fat," said William J. Evans, who is
affiliated with both Duke University and GlaxoSmithKline PLC., and who wrote a commentary about the study
that was also published online in JAMA Internal Medicine. "It's mischaracterizing red meat as high fat," Dr.
Evans said in an interview.
He said consumers could choose lean cuts of red meat such as sirloin tips or round steak over high-fat cuts like
rib-eye.
Dr. Pan could not be reached for comment Monday.
Similar to general dietary guidelines from the U.S. government, the American Diabetes Association
recommends people with diabetes eat lots of vegetables and fruit and choose whole-grain foods including dried

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beans, as well as eating fish two or three times a week. Lean meats include cuts of beef or pork that end in
"loin," such as pork loin and sirloin.
Diabetes affects about 26 million Americans and is characterized by high blood-glucose levels caused by the
body's inability to either make or properly use insulin. Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, is
often associated with weight gain and older age. The disease raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes, kidney
disease, blindness, amputations and nerve damage. The other type of diabetes, Type 1, is an autoimmune
disease and often diagnosed in childhood.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has projected that as many as 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have
diabetes by 2050. The disease is currently the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S.
Doctors say that improving diet is important not only for managing diabetes, but for keeping the adult-onset
Type 2 at bay for those with the highest risk. The CDC estimates that 35% of U.S. adults age 20 and older --
nearly 80 million Americans, by the agency's estimate -- are affected with prediabetes, a condition in which
people have higher-than-normal blood-glucose levels. People with prediabetes also have a higher risk of
developing problems like heart disease and stroke.
Researchers said one of the limitations of the study was that participants were mostly white, educated U.S.
adults. Some groups have a higher risk than others for developing Type 2 diabetes, according to the diabetes
association, including African-Americans and Hispanics.
The diabetes and red-meat analysis involved data from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study collected
between 1986 and 2006, as well as information from two groups of women in the Nurses' Health studies
collected during a similar time period.
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A Diabetes Primer
For Carnivores, What to Know About the Disease
PREVALENCE
-- 347 million people world-wide have diabetes
-- 26 million in the U.S. have it (19 million diagnosed, 7 million undiagnosed)
-- 8.3% of the U.S. population is affected
-- 27% of Americans with diabetes don't know they have it
-- 35% of the U.S. population age 20 years or older has prediabetes
RED MEAT CHOICES FOR DIABETICS
-- The American Diabetes Association recommends that meat eaters opt for Choice or Select grades of beef
that are trimmed of fat. Cuts include chuck, rib, flank, Porterhouse, T-bone, rump roast, sirloin and tenderloin.
-- Other acceptable options: lamb chop, leg or roast, Canadian bacon, beef jerky, organ meats, game meat
(including buffalo, duck, goose, venison), veal loin chop or roast.
EFFECTS OF DIABETES
Type 2 diabetes is the seventh-leading cause of death in the U.S. and the leading cause of these conditions:
-- Kidney failure
-- Non-traumatic lower-limb amputations
-- New cases of blindness among adults
SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; American Diabetes Association; World Health
Organization
Credit: By Jennifer Corbett Dooren

Subject: Studies; Diet; Autoimmune diseases; Disease prevention; Internal medicine; Diabetes; Meat;

Location: United States--US

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Company / organization: Name: GlaxoSmithKline PLC; NAICS: 325412; Name: Duke University; NAICS:
611310; Name: National University of Singapore; NAICS: 611310; Name: American Diabetes Association;
NAICS: 813212; Name: National Institutes of Health; NAICS: 923120; Name: American Medical Association;
NAICS: 813920; Name: Harvard University; NAICS: 611310;

Publication title: Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition ; New York, N.Y.

Pages: D.2

Publication year: 2013

Publication date: Jun 18, 2013

Publisher: Dow Jones & Company Inc

Place of publication: New York, N.Y.

Country of publication: United States

Publication subject: Business And Economics--Banking And Finance

ISSN: 00999660

Source type: Newspapers

Language of publication: English

Document type: Feature

ProQuest document ID: 1368553252

Document URL: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1368553252?accountid=2909

Copyright: (c) 2013 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Reproduced with permission of copyright owner. Further
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Last updated: 2013-06-27

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