As reported by Allison Aubrey at NPR, a new study has revealed that people who routinely eat a lot of red meat — as well as processed meats — "may be increasing their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes"
One of the study authors, Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, writes in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that "when we looked at the women and men who consumed the most red meat compared to the least, we found about a 50% increase in risk." Furthermore, most of these participants also had "higher body mass indexes," as reported by Arnold.
