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Gobling in too many refined products of wheat and rice, along with eating too whole grains, is feeding the growth of new cases of type 2 diabetes worldwide, according to a new study that models Data until 2018.
“Our study suggests that the poor quality of carbohydrates is a leader of type 2 diabetes attributable to the diet worldwide,” says Principal Author Dr. Iriush Mozyofarian, Professor of Nutrition at the University of Tufts and Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Tufts in Boston, in a statement.
Another key factor: people are eating too much red and processed meats, such as bacon, sausage, salami and the like, according to the study. These three factors, which eat very few integral grains and too many grains and processed meats, were the main drivers or around 14 million new cases of type 2 diabetes in 2018, according to the study, which was published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
In fact, the study estimated that 7 out of 10 cases of type 2 diabetes worldwide in 2018 were linked to bad food options.
“These new findings reveal critical areas for the national and global approach to improve nutrition and reduce devastating diabetes burns,” said Mozafarian, who is also the editor -in -chief of the Tuft Health and Nutrition Charter.
Mozaffarian and his team developed a dietary intake research model between 1990 and 2018 and applied it to 184 countries. Compared to 1990, there were 8.6 million cases of type 2 diabetes due to a poor diet in 2018, according to the study.
The researchers discovered that eating too many unhealthy foods was more a driver or diabetes type 2 at a global level than the lack of eating Healthy food, special for men compared to women, younger compared to older adults and in urban versus rural residents.
About 60% of the total cases of disease of the total global diet disease were due to excess intake of only six dietary daily habits: eating too much refined rice, wheat and potatoes; Too many red and unprocessed red meat; And drink too many drinks of sugar and fruit juice.
Inadequate intake of five protective dietary factors (fruits, non -successful vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains and yogurt) was responsible for almost approximately 39% of new cases.
People in Poland and Russia, where diets tend to focus on potatoes and red and processed meat, and other countries in Eastern and central Europe, as well as central Asia, had the highest percentage of new cases of type 2 diabetes linked to the diet.
Colombia, Mexico and other Latin American countries and the Caribbean also had a large number of new cases, which the researchers said it could be due to a dependence on sugary drinks and processed meat, as well as a low intake of whole grains.
“Our modeling approach does not prove causality, and our findings should be considered as risk estimates,” the authors wrote.