Foreign Sugar in Beef and Lamb May Help Explain Diabetes Link
A French study of nearly 90,000 adults found that higher intake of a red-meat sugar called Neu5Gc was associated with a 63% greater risk of type 2 diabetes compared with the lowest intake. Humans cannot make Neu5Gc because of an ancient CMAH mutation, but the molecule can enter tissues from beef, lamb, and some dairy and trigger immune antibodies. The observational findings, presented at the EASD annual meeting, cannot prove causation but suggest chronic inflammation may partly connect red meat to diabetes.
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