If we eat this cuisine twice a week, our chance of developing diabetes could increase, claim Harvard researchers.
Over 216,000 adults were tracked for more than 30 years in a new research about their health and diets.
- According to a recent study that was just published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, eating just two servings of red meat each week can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
- Contrarily, switching from red meat to plant-based proteins was associated with a lower chance of developing diabetes, the study revealed.
- More than 30 years' worth of health information and dietary decisions for 216,695 participants were examined by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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A news release from the university stated that about 22,000 of them eventually got type 2 diabetes.
Those who ate the most red meat had a 62% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who ate the least.
Red meat in general increased risk, but processed meats did so more than their unprocessed equivalents.
Compared to each serving of unprocessed meat, processed red meat raised diabetes risk by 46% per daily serving.
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According to first author Xiao Gu, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard in Boston, "our findings strongly support that limiting intake of red meat and instead Choosing mostly plant-based protein sources will lower a person's risk of getting type 2 diabetes and associated complications.
Nuts and legumes, in contrast, lowered the risk of type 2 diabetes by 30% when consumed in one meal.
Dairy products reduced the risk by 22% per serving.
There are many diverse opinions on whether people should limit their consumption of red meat, as Gu said.
"We employed advanced methods to take into account possible errors in reporting dietary intake, and we controlled in detail for extraneous factors that might account for our findings," he stated to Fox News Digital.
"Our findings provide a greater level of certainty about this important relationship."
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There is "abundant evidence" of health benefits for those who follow the traditional Mediterranean diet, which discourages the use of red meat.
Based on the study's findings, the researchers advise consuming no more than two portions of red meat each week, "and once would be better," according to Gu.
"We would also suggest people replace red meat with healthy plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes," according to him.
"Adopting this dietary strategy will help reduce individuals' risk of developing type 2 diabetes and its consequences, which will ultimately improve the health and well-being of people worldwide."
He concluded that it is healthy and practical to adopt a diet that limits the consumption of red meat.
According to the American Diabetes Association's most recent statistics, 37.3 million Americans, or 11.3% of the country's population, has diabetes as of 2019.