Category Archives: Processed meat

The Western Diet: Refined Junk

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Low quality diets are increasingly being seen as the cause of Western lifestyle diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In contrast, high quality traditional diets are protective of disease. Studying the changes that occur as population … Continue reading →

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Red Meat and Diabetes

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Robert Barrington

A number have studies have investigated the association between red meat and type 2  diabetes, but the results have been inconsistent. This possibly relates to the presence of confounding variables that influence insulin sensitivity and thus modifies the association between … Continue reading →

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