Avoiding "fast food" burgers and fried chicken may cut your risk of developing type 2 diabetes -- the kind closely linked to obesity.Regularly eating "super sized" portions of high calorie fast foods is widely viewed as a contributing factor to the growing number of obese Americans. Now researchers report that study subjects who ate fast food burgers or fried chicken at least twice a week were 40 to 70 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes over 10 years.
The study looked at fast food consumption, lifestyle habits, and the development of diabetes in more than 44,000 people who filled out biennial questionnaires beginning in 1995.
Sources:
Reuters December 29, 2009http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/12/31/Fried-Chicken-With-a-Side-of-Diabetes.aspx
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