{"id":321657,"date":"2026-02-28T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:39:15","slug":"swapping-red-meat-for-plant-protein-may-lower-risk-by-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321657\/","title":{"rendered":"Swapping red meat for plant protein may lower risk by 14%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As much as the study has indicated an increased risk of diabetes with red meat, experts agree that demonizing food groups is not the answer to a healthy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/324093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">balanced<\/a> diet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe takeaway is not that red meat is forbidden, but that overall dietary pattern matters most. A way of eating centered on legumes, nuts, vegetables, whole grains, fish, poultry, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/325114\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fermented<\/a> dairy, with red meat eaten occasionally rather than daily, is consistently associated with better metabolic health,\u201d Routhenstein said.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler said it was important to create a dietary plan that both helps prevent diabetes and maintains adequate protein intake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubstitution of alternative dietary components, particularly plant-based protein sources, poultry, dairy, eggs, or whole grains for total, processed, or unprocessed red meat would be beneficial,\u201d Cutler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd studies suggest these substitutions will lower the odds of developing diabetes. Other protein sources, such as fish and other seafood, are also healthier substitutes for red meat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0As much as the study has indicated an increased risk of diabetes with red meat, experts agree that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1702,493,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-321657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-diabetes","tag-diet","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}