I wasn't going to put a second post up today until I came across this study linking type 2 diabetes to the consumption of potatoes. The results:
Potato and french fry consumption were both positively associated with risk of type 2 diabetes after adjustment for age and dietary and nondietary factors.
In other words, the more potatoes a study participant ate, the more likely they were to develop type 2 diabetes.
The abstract of this study is here, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The PubMed abstract is here, with a link to the full article (for a price).
This is a horrible outrage! Type 2 diabetes is completely preventable, but you have to cut out all of those processed carbs and get onto a low carb diet high in vegetables. Then, and only then, will we put an end to the epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that is killing us.
H/T: Livin' La Vida Low Carb blog for linking me to this study.
2 comments:
The news about how low-fat, high-carb diets (a la the old USDA and FDA Food Pyramid that every kid in my generation grew up memorizing) are horribly unhealthy puts me in mind of the days when drinking radactive water was thought to improve one's health.
I have a feeling that later generations will look back on our times and say, "What were they thinking? Duh!"
Yeah, we're fortunate they didn't kill us with the AMA "healthy" diets!!
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