bulkbiker
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
How do you think being unhealthy enough to be here ( ie diabetic) relates to eating / not eating meat?
As far as I see it, people can be a healthy diabetic as a meat eater or as a non meat eater, they can also be a very unhealthy diabetic as a meat eater or a very unhealthy diabetic as a non meat eater. - meat is not the determining factor and is just is one way of getting nutrition, as are many other food choices.
I was referring to the proselytisers for vegetarianism and veganism who make claims that their favoured way of eating means it is impossible to get T2 when not eating meat.. the Gregers, Barnards and Khans of this world who claim that eating animal saturated fat "gives" you T2 diabetes by filing up your fat cells with saturated fat. I'm pretty sure that this is rubbish and as the levels of T2 in mostly vegetarian India show it's also false.
A number of other contributors managed to get that nuance from what I wrote... maybe I needed to spell it out more clearly.. apologies if I failed to do so.