High Dietary Acid Load Doubles Risk of Type II Diabetes in Lean Individuals! Causative or Corollary? Plus: Are Grains, not Meats the Main Offenders in the Modern Diet?
If you go for green, you are usually on the safe side of things... ah pHs ;-) You will probably remember the association between higher acid levels (not even out of range), metabolic syndrome, lowered growth hormone release and a plethora of other ill-health effects I already hinted at in "How Could Bicarbonate Help You Lose Fat & Build Muscle" ( read more ). A new study from the Gustave Roussy Institute in France is now the first large scale study to provide relatively conclusive support for the hypothesis that there is a direct relationship between dietary acid load and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases and type II diabetes (Fagherazzi. 2013). Credible evidence from large cohort Fagherazzi et al. analyzed data from 66,486 women who were part of the E3N study (Etude Epidémiologique auprès des femmes de la Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale), a French prospective cohort study of 98,995 female teachers, who were followed for incident diabetes over 14 ...