Red Meat Causes Diabetes 🥩🍩?#meat #healthandfitness #diabetes
In this video, the speaker examines two newly published studies—one in Nature Metabolism and another in The Lancet—that claim a link between red meat consumption and diabetes. He argues that media outlets have exaggerated these findings, presenting them as proof that red meat causes diabetes. The speaker highlights three major issues with the studies: (1) the reported effect sizes are extremely small; (2) there is massive heterogeneity across study groups; and (3) significant confounding variables such as higher intake of Western diets, greater obesity rates, and increased smoking prevalence are present. He notes that while statistical adjustments can be attempted, they cannot fully account for these confounders, leading him to conclude that the observed association is likely a statistical artifact rather than evidence of causation.
