Lindy, the same has been widely reported by credible people, including physicians treating nutritional defects and deficits, that eating more protein, including animal protein, has turned around the metabolic problems in people with insulin sensitivity and who were often obese or nearly so. What they did was to avoid ingesting carbohydrates of all kinds, including alcohol, sweets, root vegetables, and grains. Also included were pretty much all prepared and processed 'foods'. My own daughter was deemed to be in metabolic disorder and was declared Type II only two years ago, at age 45. She immediately restricted her intake of carbohydrates, took metformin under direction, and has escaped her Type II onset. She is being monitored, but needs no insulin supplementation, lost 60 pounds, and was thereafter granted an ankle repair which the surgeon had declined to do unless she turned herself, and her lifestyle, around.

While it may be obvious that a pursued way of eating is harmful, the answer needn't be to give up animal products. It MAY BE, but it isn't necessarily the case that all of us can stand to gain by declining to eat the omnivorous way humans were intended to eat.