Meat Eating Predicts Diabetes Development

Tom Hennessy Thursday, 13 March 2008 21:31 UTC These two articles show clearly .. the meat eating by the inhabitants predicted the diabetes development years later. The two articles are done seperately from each other. The two studies were done by two different research groups during different years. The first study completed had found the highest highest iron stores in people in Unmmannaq and the second study found highest diabetes in Unmmannaq. The studies SHOW .. Meat Eating Predicts Diabetes The researchers had ALREADY attributed this high iron stores in the Unmmannaq people to the high meat / haem iron INTAKE and when other researchers later found the highest diabetes in the Unmmannaq people it surprised them.

Original Article Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance Among the Inuit Population of Greenland Surprisingly, the prevalence of diabetes in Unmmannaq was higher than that in the towns of Nuuk and Qasigiannguit Diabetes Care 25:1766-1771, 2002 Epidemiology/Health Services/Psychosocial Research 2002 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc. http://tinyurl.com/3xkawm

Prevalence of iron load highest in Uummannaq (men, 32.1%; women, 21.1%). " Body iron stores can be explained by differences in the dietary intake of haem iron Eur J Haematol. 2001 Feb;66(2):115-25.Related Articles, Links Iron status markers in 224 indigenous Greenlanders: influence of age, residence and traditional foods. Milman N, Byg KE, Mulvad G, Pedersen HS, Bjerregaard P. Department of Medicine, Naestved Hospital, Naestved, Denmark. mil@cn.stam.dk OBJECTIVE: To evaluate iron status in indigenous Greenlanders and its relationship to gender, age and intake of traditional Greenlandic foods. Methods: Serum ferritin, serum transferrin saturation and haemoglobin were evaluated in a population survey in 1993-1994 comprising 224 Greenlandic individuals (109 men) aged 19-82 yr. The participants were residents in the capital Nuuk (n=73) with a predominantly Western style of living, the town Ilulissat (n=60) with a mixture of Western and Greenlandic style of living, and the small town Uummannaq (n=91) with a predominantly Greenlandic style of living. Consumption of traditional foods was assessed by questionnaire. RESULTS:

Intake of traditional foods was more prevalent among elderly than among young individuals and more frequent in Uummannaq than in Ilulissat and Nuuk. Ferritin levels were higher in men than in women (p<0.0001). Median ferritin levels were lowest in Nuuk (men, 92 microg/L; women, 40 microg/L), higher in Ilulissat (men, 104 microg/L; women, 69 microg/L) and in Uummannaq (men, 118 microg/L; women, 46 microg/L) (p<0.001). The prevalence of iron load (ferritin >200 microg/L) was lowest in Nuuk (men: 13.8%, women: 2.3%) intermediate in Ilulissat (men, 11.1%; women, 9.1%) and highest in Uummannaq (men, 32.1%; women, 21.1%). The prevalence of iron depletion (ferritin <16 microg/L) was high in Nuuk (men, 0%; women, 20.5%), and lower in Ilulissat (men, 3.7%; women, 6.1%) and in Uummannaq (men, 0%; women, 10.5%). The prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (ferritin <13 microg/L and Hb <5th percentile for ironreplete men and women) was 0.92% in men and 0.87% in women. Correlations between age and ferritin were lowest in Nuuk (men, r(s)=0.26, p=0.2; women, r(s)=0.50, p=0.001) intermediary in Ilulissat (men, r(s)=0.37, p=0.06; women, r(s)=0.73, p<0.0001) and highest in Uummannaq (men, r(s)=0.59, p<0.0001; women, rs=0.74, p<0.0001). Intake of traditional foods was correlated with ferritin in men (r(s)=0.29, p=0.01) and women (r(s)=0.40, p<0.0001). CONCLUSION: The observed differences in estimated body iron stores in Greenlanders from the three residential areas can be explained by differences in the dietary intake of haem iron. PMID: 11168519 [PubMed indexed for MEDLINE] - When one now considers the fact it seems the meat eating causes diabetes it shows therefore meat eating causes disease. If a food causes disease in an animal this would give evidence to the fact therefore that food is not natural for that animal. One cannot argue a food which kills an animal is a natural food for that animal. It is an illogical argument.