"A post from 1996:"

15 years is forever in the rapidly advancing diabetes research.

One way to test such ideas is to find where a natural experiment has
already been done.

India not not known for its meat consumption relative to the west zoomed
to the top of the diabetes rate list during the past 15 years. Even
there the n. indian and s. indian rates appear to be different. The
rate is higherin s. india.

To look at meat consumption alone compared to the west does not account
for india's leading the world in diabetes.

What is in common the world over is eating more and exercising less.
Weight and obesity zoom up.

In lower meat countries like india this means more carbohydrates and in
much very in the less complex kinds such as in rice and bread for
example. Added to this is the increased use of veggie derived oils
which is also implicated in diabetes risk.

In indian locations where traditional diets, less food intake, and more
exercis is the standard; the rates and risk are as low as any in the
world from decades ago.