 Hey guys, this is Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and a diabetes education specialist Now today I'm going to talk to you about red meat and diabetes. Now as a diabetic, can you eat red meat? Well, let's talk about that So Basically, you can eat red meat. I have no problem with that But you have to be careful about a few things about the red meat And I know if you're a red meat eater It's gonna be very hard to change you because you'll probably hate me for doing that But on the other hand, I'll tell you if you make a few changes how beneficial it can be for you Now in this case, I'm going to tell you a few things that you may not have heard before. Number one is red meat is Although it looks delicious and it looks nice and easy to come to your table It takes a lot of effort. It is a very very intensive process to get the red meat on your table Here's how it works For you to have one calories, one calories from the red meat, the cows, the cattle, they have to consume 100 calories. They have to eat a lot And what do they eat? They eat grass. Where do they get the grass from? From the from deforestation, which means that you have to get rid of the forest to get grass Now that's a major problem Although you may not be thinking about this when you're eating red meat But basically deforestation is a huge problem, especially for the climate change. Now what else? You have to have a lot of cows To be able to feed all those people. How many people do we have? 7 billion It's gonna be 10 billion before you know it. Now 10 people eating red meat What's gonna happen? You have to have a lot of cattle. Now these animals They do not just have fun. They produce something called methane Now they burp, they fart, they do all sorts of things. Now when this happens Those methane goes into your atmosphere and gets stuck there and it's called greenhouse emission So it's not just the oil or the factories that pollutes the air But burps and farts of these animals actually do that and you're gonna be you you're probably laughing right now But it's what it is. It is responsible for the 22% of the greenhouse emissions And it's just getting worse and worse. So Now what can we do about this? I'm not saying go all become vegan, but if you actually modify and reduce the red meat consumption You will number one help the whole humanity If you don't care about the humanity, I'll tell you something especially if you're not eating red meat In a pure form like if you're not just cooking at home If you're eating processed red meats, especially you're definitely looking for colorectal cancer And that is a very common cancer and if you don't die from a heart attack You will probably die from colorectal cancer from excessive red meat consumption. I have people in my family We come from a part of Turkey where they don't have any seafood They hate chicken and all they eat is red meat and you will see if people rarely see their 50s before they have a heart attack My father have a stent my uncle had a heart attack in his in many bus 45 But you know like pretty much everybody in my family has some sort of heart disease and that's that's not necessarily just genetics But the whole the tall town composed of two million people have major heart problems And that's not because I'm not saying red meat causes the heart problems directly But they just eat so much red meat that they don't have anything else to eat You know, they just refuse the vegetables and fruits and they refuse the fish And they never get the polyunsaturated and also monounsaturated fats. They live on a saturated fat diet and Again, you not only need to You know Basically reduce your enemies, but also you need to have friends now Your friends in your diet that protects you from the heart disease is your polyunsaturated fat monounsaturated fat Which is your olive oil, you know your vegetables or vegetable oils the plant sterols Plant-based foods and the fish, you know the fatty fish So if you're not having those you're really not having any protection at all and your body just Will end up making a lot of fat Especially from carbohydrate consumption now if you're not careful if you're having a lot of carbs Not only you will become diabetic, but also your cholesterol will be messed up And that's another reason for having a heart attack now back to red meat Again, red meat is delicious. I love it me too. I have no problem with it But I'm trying to reduce my red meat to once a week And I think that's the icing to do You can you need to enjoy your vegetables and your your fruits and your plants To be able to have an overall healthy system. Now. What else? None meat based diets plant-based diets to Mediterranean diet basically it reduces your inflammation overall. So you feel better So if you are eating a lot of red meat and very little vegetables and fruits You will just not feel good. Yeah, your taste buds may enjoy it But your overall system will be under inflammation And that's why those people just don't feel good and and to be honest with you What you eat also reflects on your character. So if you are a red meat eater I can't tell who these people are. They're generally aggressive looking They are very you know snappy, you know, so it's I'm like you must be eating a lot of red meat Dude, you know, calm down, you know, just be a little gentle be nice to people So, you know, I'm just saying I'm just saying that you are not nice If you're a red meat eater and watching me right now But I'm just telling you that you know what you eat really it changes your personality, too So what we put to our body becomes us So you have to think about that Anyways, that is I think The end of the video So I hope you enjoyed it and we will talk to you in the next video Guys remember to subscribe and remember to give a thumbs up and share this video with the family and friends