A recent study has revealed that even two servings of red meat per week can increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The risk rises with increased consumption. However, substituting red meat with healthier plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, or dairy foods can lower this risk. Beyond health implications, choosing plant proteins over red meat can also help mitigate environmental issues like greenhouse gas emissions.

Harvard Scientists Find That Eating Red Meat Could Increase Your Risk of Diabetes (scitechdaily.com

We must ban eating meat to save the climate – because of this nutrition study.

Dr. Harcombe, Ph.D., nutrition, identifies numerous faults with this junk science:

Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD on X: “I reviewed the latest red meat & T2D paper. I found 14 issues. Some are common to all population studies. Many were unique to this study. Peer-review should have challenged this paper for issues 6, 7, 9, 10 & 11, if not more. 1) the inaccuracy of Food Frequency Questionnaires. 2)… https://t.co/QxmwwoNqBz” / X (twitter.com)

The author of this Guardian report on the study has a BA in history – pointing to the problem with reporters lacking subject matter expertise – no STEM training at all – and their ability to critically examine a study. The result is junk news reporting, often from copying a press release. It is what the industry calls “stenography reporting”.

There is more in another Twitter thread here. Journalism is dead, as the linked Tweet notes:

“Journalism in the sense of asking questions and thinking is dead in most of the mainstream media.”

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