Does Red Meat Cause Type II Diabetes?

Episode 853 50m

Overview

Recently, a study made headlines linking red meat consumption to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes. It’s no secret that navigating the realm of nutrition has become a challenge for the general public.

That’s why, on today’s Health Bites episode, we’re diving deep into the findings from this study, “Red meat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study of United States females and males,” published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. I unpack the study’s design flaws, inaccuracies, and where the researchers got it straight up wrong.

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Topics Covered

  • What we can and cannot learn from observational research

    (3:42)

  • “Red meat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study of United States females and males” study design and findings

    (9:01)

  • Issues with the study design and why it does not prove that red meat causes type 2 diabetes

    (20:01)

  • What have other studies found?

    (39:20:00)

  • The root cause of type 2 diabetes

    (44:02:00)

  • Strategies to address type 2 diabetes

    (44:29:00)

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Host & Guests

Transcript

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Dr. Mark Hyman: Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctor's Pharmacy, there was a large study of 11,000 people who shopped at health food stores. Half of them were vegetarian or vegan, and half of them ate meat, but they ate meat in the context of a healthy diet. If your meat intake is with hamburgers and fries and coke, well, it's probably not the hamburger, right? Welcome to the Doctor's Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman, and this is a place for conversations that matter. Now, it's no secret that navigating the realm of nutrition has become a challenge for the general public, and even for people like me in health professionals who've been studying this for 30 years, one week, eggs are good for us only be..

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Ep. 853 - Does Red Meat Cause Type II Diabetes?