CWayne
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You'll have to give me some time to go find them. I don't save that kind of thing in the hopes of using it in an online debate forum.How does red meat cause diabetes when meat (a protein source with no carbohydrates) barely cause a rise in insulin production?
Type II diabetes is a disease in which the hormone insulin is hypersensitive to blood glucose. The excess consumption of carbohydrates causes insulin levels to rise so that the glucose in the bloodstream can be targeted for use as energy, or most often, stored as energy for later use. Since we, as a nation, consume so many carbohydrates, the blood glucose is always more than the body needs to burn. That means that insulin always acts as a door for storing fat.
When carbs (sugars) are kept to a minimum or eliminated completely, the insulin then acts in the opposite. The blood glucose is low or baseline and the insulin must then release the stored fat for the body to have energy.
Meat barely moves the insulin needle.
Fats do not move the insulin needle.
It has been shown in studies that the body will convert excess proteins to glucose, but then the liver quickly uses it up and then converts the rest to keystones.
Once the liver has detoxed from all the carbs and switches over to produce ketones, the body becomes more efficient at burning energy.
Since 1 gram of fat is 9 calories, you actually get more energy from fat than you do from carbs, which is only 4 calories per gram.
You didn't say whose studies. Who debunked the other studies? Can't just move on and skip the question. I'm willing to discuss it, but you have to tell us whose studies you're using to make your claim. Who debunked the other studies? What did they study? Did they study processed red meat, unprocessed red meat, there's all sorts of things involved with studies. How do you even debunk studies anyway?
If you're actually interested in knowing, just do some research on Ketogenics. They started their research based on the old practices of doctors who would treat schizophrenia patients. They noticed not only did it help them, but they also lost weight and had remarkable improvements, if not outright remission, of diabetes.
Here is an article on this.
Chronic Schizophrenia Put Into Remission Without Medication
Here too is an article on how they got red meat wrong, done in a quick two-second search.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20190930/controversial-studies-say-its-ok-to-eat-red-meat
Use these keywords in a google search. "ketogenic diet research 2018"
And, of course, there are youtube videos that discuss keto diets and they cover how the Standard American Diet (SAD) is not healthy.