12 September 2019Dairy, Diabetes and Obesity, Eggs, Validation

Taiwanese Buddhist Study

Everything in moderation is a near unanimous response by health professional, health support organisations and media commentators to solving our health crisis.

A Taiwanese Buddhist study ¹ with 4,384 participants compared type 2 diabetes outcomes for lacto-ovo-vegetarians compared with those who consumed meat. The meat-eating group ate only a very small amount of meat.

The cause of type 2 diabetes has been known for decades.

Search the website for “intramyocellular” for more details.

Meat intake for females: 50% consumed less than 10 g/day; 25% consumed less than 2 g/day.
Meat intake for males: 50% consumed less than 20 g/day; 25% consumed less than 7 g/day.
Fish and meat intake for females: 50% consumed less than 17 g/day; 25% consumed less than 3 g/day
Fish and meat intake for males: 50% consumed less than 37 g/day; 25% consumed less than 11 g/day.

There were insufficient numbers to divide the vegetarians into subgroups (pesco, lacto-ovo, vegan). There were 69 vegans (no animal products) and there were no cases of diabetes within this group.

One Big Mac, with 2 meat patties, contains 90 g of meat—so the participants were consuming only a very small amount of meat. Three garden peas weigh a gram.

That minute amount of meat increased the risk of diabetes 4 times for females and 2 times for males. Not an endorsement for moderation.

Cohort	Diet	Diabetes Prevalence %	Impaired Fasting Glucose Prevalance %
Pre-menopausal women	Vegetarian	0.6	5.8
Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	2.8	9.0
Menopausal women	Vegetarian	2.8	14
Menopausal women	Omnivore	10	18
Men	Vegetarian	4.3	12
Men	Omnivore	8.1	17

For those interested, the p-values for the diabetes outcomes for pre-menopausal, menopausal and men cohorts were 0.0006, <0.0001 and 0.0014 respectively.

Food	Cohort	Diet	Median (g)	25% (g)
Fish	Pre-menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Fish	Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	5	1
Fish	Menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Fish	Menopausal women	Omnivore	7	2
Fish	Men	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Fish	Men	Omnivore	15	4
Fresh meat	Pre-menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Fresh meat	Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	11	2
Fresh meat	Menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Fresh meat	Menopausal women	Omnivore	7	1
Fresh meat	Men	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Fresh meat	Men	Omnivore	20	7
Processed meat	Pre-menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Processed meat	Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	1	0
Processed meat	Menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Processed meat	Menopausal women	Omnivore	1	0
Processed meat	Men	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	0	0
Processed meat	Men	Omnivore	2	0
Eggs	Pre-menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	16	6
Eggs	Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	24	9
Eggs	Menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	7	2
Eggs	Menopausal women	Omnivore	16	6
Eggs	Men	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	15	4
Eggs	Men	Omnivore	18	8
Dairy	Pre-menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	34	4
Dairy	Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	41	9
Dairy	Menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	36	2
Dairy	Menopausal women	Omnivore	50	1
Dairy	Men	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	46	1
Dairy	Men	Omnivore	41	1
Soy	Pre-menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	96	53
Soy	Pre-menopausal women	Omnivore	68	30
Soy	Menopausal women	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	88	41
Soy	Menopausal women	Omnivore	52	23
Soy	Men	Lacto-ova- vegetarian	104	53
Soy	Men	Omnivore	63	27

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Chiu, T. H. T. et al. (2014) Taiwanese Vegetarians and Omnivores: Dietary Composition, Prevalence of Diabetes and IFG Marià Alemany (ed.). PLoS ONE. 9 (2), e88547.

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Richard Harding
14 April 2022 at 09:18

The Taiwanese Buddhist participants are healthier than the general population. Asian people are afflicted by diabetes at a lower threshold than Europeans.

NOTE: In the meat eating group, 50% of females consumed less than 10 g meat / day; 25% consumed less than 2 g meat / day.

One Big Mac contains 90 g of meat. Three garden peas weigh one gram. Even that small amount of meat increased the risk of diabetes four times compared with the non-meat group.

AND the 69 participants who did not have any animal products.

Not one was affected by diabetes.

The cause of type 2 diabetes has been known for decades.

Search the website for intramyocellular lipids diabetes for more details.

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