In another stunning turn of events with no precedent, a major scientific review of over 300,000 people found that those who eat a vegetarian or vegan diet have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
While it’s reassuring to see this information reinforced, as opposed to reading one thing one day and seeing it contradicted within a few more, it’s frustrating in other ways to think that’s it’s taking more and more of these repetitive, consistently reinforcing studies to underscore to people that meat and dairy are not good for you (full stop) when it comes to dealing avoiding type 2 diabetes.