I wish more people would read this - and believe it. If I tell my family, they'll say that I am being brain washed. I'll tell them anyway! :D
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I wish more people would read this - and believe it. If I tell my family, they'll say that I am being brain washed. I'll tell them anyway! :D
Do you have a link to where the paper itself was published online? I'm a bit of a geek and like to read these things and also to see the methodology etc.
^Sorry, I think you have to pay to read beyond this abstract::(
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi...ct/dc08-1271v1
I'd like to see something that actually explains how though rather than just trying to link the two together. You can use studies to link together number of icecreams sold to the number of murders on a given day.
Always glad to see physicians telling people not to eat animal products though of course.
Good point Zero. It reminds me of the true reason for global warming; pirate decimation:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...SM_Pirates.png;) ARGH!
Avast, me hearties correlation does not imply causation, aarrgghhh!
I have a gas fire and I haven't been murdered therefore my gas fire keeps away murderers.
Nicely presented :thumbsup:
Animal Protein Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk
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Diabetes risk increases with higher intake of total protein and animal protein, according to a new study in this month's issue of Diabetes Care. Researchers analyzed the diets of 38,094 Dutch participants from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study and found that for every 5 percent of calories consumed from protein instead of carbohydrate or fat, the risk of developing diabetes increased 30 percent. Increased animal protein intake coincided with increased intakes of saturated fat, cholesterol, and heme iron, and with increased body mass index, waist circumference, and blood pressure. Vegetable protein intake was not associated with diabetes risk.
Study/Research Reference: Sluijs I, Beulens JWJ, Van Der A DL, Spijkerman AMW, Grobbee DE, Van Der Shouw YT. Dietary intake of total, animal, and vegetable protein and risk of type 2 diabetes in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-NL study. Diabetes Care. 2010; 33:43-48.
More Vegetables for Mom Decreases Risk of Diabetes for Baby
(December 2. 2009)
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In a new study published in Pediatric Diabetes, researchers found that women who consumed the least amount of vegetables during pregnancy were more likely to have babies who developed type 1 diabetes.
Compared with women who ate vegetables daily, those consuming vegetables only three to five times per week had a 71 percent increased risk of having a child with diabetes.
Study/Research Reference: Brekke HK, Ludvigsson J. Daily vegetable intake during pregnancy negatively associated to islet autoimmunity in the offspring - The ABIS study. Pediatr Diabetes. Advanced access published September 16, 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2009.00563.x
Also:
Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Diabetes
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A new review published in the journal Diabetologia adds more evidence linking meat consumption to diabetes risk. The people who ate the most meat had the highest risk of type 2 diabetes. Intakes of red meat and processed meat were associated with 21 and 41 percent increased risk, respectively. The study was a systematic review compiling data from 12 prior studies.
Study/Research Reference: Aune D, Ursin G, Veierod MB. Meat consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. Diabetologia. 2009;52:2277-2287.
This is a newsitem from a newspaper.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/bre...-1225907638440
Green leafy vegetables reduce diabetes risk
From correspondents in Paris From: AFP August 20, 2010 9:46AM
TUCKING into more spinach and other green leafy vegetables can reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
The research, released today in the British Medical Journal, wades into a controversial area, and its authors caution more investigation is needed to confirm the findings.
A team led by Patrice Carter at the University of Leicester, in central England, reviewed six studies involving 220,000 people that explored the link between fruit and vegetable consumption and Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes.
Eating one and a half extra servings of green leafy vegetables cut the risk of diabetes by 14 per cent, but eating more fruit and vegetables combined had negligible impact, they found.
Type 2, the commonest form of diabetes, has spread fast from rich countries to fast-developing economies as fatty, sugary diets and sedentary lifestyles take hold.
More than 220 million people worldwide are afflicted with the disease, which kills more than one million people every year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
As obesity rates increase, the number of deaths could double between 2005 and 2020, the WHO said.
Nutrition and exercise were known factors in prevention, but which foods worked best and why remain disputed, because so few good-quality studies had been carried out.
Dr Carter's team suggests that green leafy vegetables are useful because they are high in antioxidants and magnesium, but more work was needed to bear this out.
In a separate study published yesterday in the British Journal of Pharmacology, Chinese scientists said a compound extracted from various Chinese herbs helped reduce the impact of Type 2 diabetes in mice.
The product, known as emodin, inhibits an enzyme called 11-Beta-HSD1, which plays a role in resistance to insulin, the hormone that helps clear excess sugar from the blood.
Emodin can be extracted from Chinese rhubarb (Rheum palmatum) and Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) among others, the paper said.
"Researchers would need to develop chemicals that have similar effects as emodin, and see which if any of these could be used as a therapeutic drug," said Ying Leng of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica.
Diabetes is controlled by injections of insulin and blood-sugar levels.
If unchecked, the disease can lead to heart disease, vision loss, limb amputation and kidney failure.
...hence my name. :D
I am vegan and a Type II diabetic, and in the last year I reduced animal products and finally went full vegan---and watched my HbA1C go from 15 to 5.8, thanks to the info I found in Dr. Neal Barnard's book titled Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program For Reversing Diabetes. It's almost miraculous, from the POV of this formerly frustrated Type II. I am continually amazed at how much better I feel.
I did not have peripheral neuropathy, but I did have autonomic neuropathy, badly. Now---no more constant puking, no more urinary incontinence. It's wonderful.
Hi Eve,
I agree with what you have to say here. I have a predisposition to type II diabetes on my maternal side (going back four generations that I know of) and had slightly elevated sugar in pregnancy. I am not diabetic, but fear for my future. This disease is genetic. We can guard against the worst aspects of the disease through careful nutrition, exercise and healthy living overall, but completely obliterating it may be another matter. To be honest, I have yet to encounter a morbidly obese diabetic myself. Anyway :D
Vegetarians may be at lower diabetes, heart risk
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(Reuters Health) - A new study finds that a meat-free diet seems to lower a person's likelihood of having certain risk factors for diabetes or heart disease -- and therefore may lower the risk of one day developing those illnesses.
Researchers measured a suite of factors -- blood sugar, blood fats, blood pressure, waist size, and body mass - that when elevated add up to "metabolic syndrome," and found that vegetarians were lower than non-vegetarians on all counts except cholesterol.
Having metabolic syndrome puts people at a greater risk of developing diabetes or heart disease in the future.
In the study, 23 out of every 100 vegetarians were found to have at least three metabolic syndrome factors, compared with thirty-nine out of every 100 non-vegetarians and 37 out of every 100 semi-vegetarians.
"I was expecting there should be a difference," said Nico Rizzo of Loma Linda University, the lead researcher on the study. "But I didn't expect that it would be that much."
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In this study, 35 percent of the subjects did not eat meat, whereas only about five percent of all Americans are vegetarian.
One of the differences Rizzo discovered between the groups was age. Vegetarians, on average, were 3 years older than the meat-eaters.
"Even though they're older, they're in better shape," Rizzo said. "That's something I found quite interesting."
Link to the actual report:
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/con...3/13/dc10-1221
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CONCLUSIONS A vegetarian dietary pattern is associated with a more favorable profile of MRFs and a lower risk of MetS. The relationship persists after adjusting for lifestyle and demographic factors.
The Daily Mirror has an article about this study in the paper today and on their website (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health-...5875-23062209/) - at least the message is getting out there to people.
Type of vegetarian diet, body weight, and prevalence of type 2 diabetes. PubMed, May 2009. (PMID: 19351712)
Vegetarian diets and incidence of diabetes in the Adventist Health Study-2. (PubMed, Oct. 2011. PMID: 21983060)Quote:
The 5-unit BMI difference between vegans and nonvegetarians indicates a substantial potential of vegetarianism to protect against obesity. Increased conformity to vegetarian diets protected against risk of type 2 diabetes after lifestyle characteristics and BMI were taken into account. Pesco- and semi-vegetarian diets afforded intermediate protection.
A low-fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74-wk clinical trial. (May 2009 , 19339401)Quote:
Vegetarian diets (vegan, lacto ovo, semi-) were associated with a substantial and independent reduction in diabetes incidence. In Blacks the dimension of the protection associated with vegetarian diets was as great as the excess risk associated with Black ethnicity.
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BACKGROUND:
Low-fat vegetarian and vegan diets are associated with weight loss, increased insulin sensitivity, and improved cardiovascular health.
OBJECTIVE:
We compared the effects of a low-fat vegan diet and conventional diabetes diet recommendations on glycemia, weight, and plasma lipids.
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CONCLUSIONS:
Both diets were associated with sustained reductions in weight and plasma lipid concentrations. In an analysis controlling for medication changes, a low-fat vegan diet appeared to improve glycemia and plasma lipids more than did conventional diabetes diet recommendations. Whether the observed differences provide clinical benefit for the macro- or microvascular complications of diabetes remains to be established. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00276939.
Vegetarian diet, physical activity protect against diabetes in black population, study shows
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-vdp110311.php (Nov 2011. This research was funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and by the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University.)
From PCRM (July 2011):Quote:
LOMA LINDA, Calif. — New research shows that following a vegetarian diet and exercising at least three times a week significantly reduced the risk of diabetes in African Americans, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes when compared to non-Hispanic whites.
"These findings are encouraging for preventing type 2 diabetes in the black population, which is more susceptible to the disease than other populations," said Serena Tonstad, MD, a professor at Loma Linda University and lead author of the research, published in the October issue of Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases.
In addition to being at a greater risk for developing diabetes, black persons in the U.S. are also more likely to suffer from diabetes-related complications, such as end-stage renal disease and lower-extremity amputations, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"A vegetarian diet may be a way to counteract the increased diabetes risk for the black population," Dr. Tonstad said.
Dr. Tonstad's research showed that, compared to non-vegetarian blacks, vegan blacks had a 70 percent reduced risk of diabetes, and lacto-ovo vegetarian blacks (those who consume dairy, but no meat) had a 53 percent reduced risk of diabetes. Dr. Tonstad said one explanation was the protection associated with foods typically consumed in higher amounts in a vegetarian diet. Fruits and vegetables have a high fiber content, which may contribute to a decreased occurrence of type 2 diabetes. In addition, whole grains and legumes (beans) have been shown to improve glycemic control and slow the rate of carbohydrate absorption and the risk of diabetes.
The study also showed that black participants who exercised three or more times a week, compared to once a week or never, had a 35 percent reduced risk of diabetes.
The findings used prospective data (following persons over time) of 7,172 black Seventh-day Adventists participating in Adventist Health Study-2. Adventists are a Protestant religious group that promotes vegetarianism and advocates abstinence from tobacco and alcohol, which results in less confounding (distortions) when studying associations between diet and disease. Participants were given a questionnaire that asked how often they consumed 130 foods and food groups. Participants were then categorized into a dietary category (vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, etc.) based on their responses.
The study also analyzed data of 34,215 non-black Adventists and found similar protections against diabetes for a vegetarian diet. These findings confirm results from past cross-sectional research (examining persons at one point in time) that showed a vegetarian diet offered protection against diabetes.
From Plant-based diet loaded with health benefits:Quote:
Avoiding Cow’s Milk May Cut Risk of Type 1 Diabetes
Children who are not exposed to cow's milk proteins during infancy may have less risk of developing type 1 diabetes, according to a new report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In the Trial to Reduce Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the Genetically at Risk (TRIGR) study, women were encouraged to breastfeed. Those who then transitioned their infants to baby formula were given a specially prepared formula in which proteins were broken up so that no intact cow's milk proteins remained. The full study results are not yet in. However, the TRIGR pilot study, including 230 infants followed until about 10 years of age, showed that those who followed the special feeding plan were 60 percent less likely to develop type 1 diabetes, compared with children who drank regular cow's milk formula during infancy.
The study adds more support to the long-held theory that cow's milk proteins trigger the production of antibodies that can destroy a child's insulin-producing cells.
Knip M, Virtanen SM, Becker D, Dupré J, Krischer JP, Akerblom HK. Early feeding and risk of type 1 diabetes: experiences from the Trial to Reduce Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the Genetically at Risk (TRIGR). Am J Clin Nutr. Published ahead of print Jun 8, 2011.
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Dr. Barnard spoke about Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes Management and in his second presentation, Emotional Eating and the Science of Addiction.
When speaking on diabetes, he reminded those present that carbohydrates are not the cause of diabetes, and though genes do play a roll in the disease, they are not “dictators” but “suggestors” that you might get the disease. You can fight back.
“Don’t step back from the truth,” he said, as he showed how the U.S. per capita intake of meat, chicken, cheese and sugar have increased over the past 100 years and the increased prevalence of diabetes over the past 14 years.
He showed results of studies he had conducted, funded by the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation, showing results of a low-fat low-glycemic index vegan diet based on ADA guidelines. And he shared results of actual patients who had lost significant weight, were able to stop taking diabetes medications and experienced other physical improvements through changing their diet.
From International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics today:
Animal fat and cholesterol linked to increased gestational diabetes risk
"The researchers compared the prevalence of gestational diabetes across five categories split according to how many calories the women received from eating animal fat and cholesterol.
People in the highest quintile for animal fat consumption were almost twice as likely to develop gestational diabetes than those in the lowest group, while those who ate the most cholesterol experienced around a 45 per cent increase in risk."