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Most people eat this food once a day or more.<\/p>\nMost people eat this food once a day or more.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology<\/em>, eating it so often increases your risk of type 2 diabetes by almost a quarter.<\/p>\n Which make us assume that cutting down on it will drastically improve type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, it\u2019s not sugars, white wheat, rice or other carbs. And it\u2019s not fats either.<\/p>\n The researchers analyzed data from The Singapore Chinese Health Study, a survey of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore aged between 45 and 74.<\/p>\n At the beginning, the participants completed a 165-question survey on the details of their diets.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n A high intake of fish or shellfish did not increase people’s diabetes risk at all.<\/p>\n This doesn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n Just make sure you don\u2019t replace the meat with too much pasta and other carbs. Rather load up on beans and nuts.<\/p>\n