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.
- 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.
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.Footnotes
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.
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