Meat consumption ,&Diabetes Risk Factor

 Meat Consumption

  &Risk Factor For Diabetes

Seventh Adventist Group

Is attractive population

1All Adventist  avoid Tobacco

      Alcohol and caffeine.  

 2  Roughly  half Adventist are Omnivorous and half are vegetarian

 Researcher studied survey of 24673

White Seventh day  Adventist  living

In California in 1960.

Revealing 40% and 80% higher prevalence

OF diabetes among women,

(Prevalence Ratio =1.4,    95%CI ,1.2----1.8)

And men (Prevalence Ratio =1.8,95% CI,

1.3----2.5)respectively ,

Compared with vegetarians ,after adjustment

For age and body weight .

Diabetes prevalence increased  as the

 frequency of meat consumption

Increased.

Ref Nutrients 2014

   Feb : 6(2):897 ---910

  Neal Barnard

Susan Levin 

And Caroline Traio