People who started eating more red meat than usual were found to have a 50% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes during the next four years.
Researchers also found that those who reduced red meat consumption lowered their type 2 diabetes risk by 14% over a 10-year follow-up period.
Is wild meat considered red meat?
If you read that article from the mayo clinic I posted earlier they found the red meat study to be slightly misleading.
The increase in diabetes and heart disease was found to correlate to processed red meat. (Sausage, bacon, etc) not raw red meat.
The prevailing theory is that the saturated fats were the same...the difference? Sodium.
But there's lots of people smarter then me looking at this stuff (and commenting here for that matter). I'm just a guy who likes the search function on google.
I personally feel, with no scientific data to back it up, that the processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, mutated grains, and hormones in our meat has more to do with our health then anything.
After getting into Paleo in 2012 I learned to take a more serious look at published studies. Paleo authors like Mark Sisson dig deep into the data and dicuss what the study authors never do. In the case of the above "red meat" data the cofactors - what else were the particpants eating - was not looked at. A venison steak was the same as a Big Mac in the study. Anyone with the intellect above a three year old knows they are not the same, but the studies these conclusions are drawn from lump them together and ignore the rest of the particpant's diet.
This spring the book Death by Food Pyramid was released. The author went through The China Studies and debunked their conclusions using the same data. After that she took a hard look at the US food system. Its not pretty, and their own research shows they know they are killing people.