Most people eat this food once a day or more.
Unfortunately, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, eating it so often increases your risk of type 2 diabetes by almost a quarter.
Which make us assume that cutting down on it will drastically improve type 2 diabetes.
Surprisingly, it’s not sugars, white wheat, rice or other carbs. And it’s not fats either.
The researchers analyzed data from The Singapore Chinese Health Study, a survey of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore aged between 45 and 74.
At the beginning, the participants completed a 165-question survey on the details of their diets.
They were then interviewed twice during the following 11 years to find out which of them had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by their physicians.
After crunching the numbers, they discovered that those with high meat and poultry consumption (one serving per day) had a 23% and 15% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who ate the least of these two types of meat.
A high intake of fish or shellfish did not increase people’s diabetes risk at all.
This doesn’t mean that you need to completely cut out all meat. Try to scale back a little and rather go for white poultry than red meat. And opt for fish when you have the chance.
Just make sure you don’t replace the meat with too much pasta and other carbs. Rather load up on beans and nuts.