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Eating too many refined wheat and rice products, along with eating too few whole grains, is driving a rise in new cases of type 2 diabetes across the globe, according to a new modeling study. Around the world. data up to 2018.
Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, professor of nutrition at Tufts University and professor of medicine at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston, said: “Our study shows that poor carbohydrate quality is a leading cause of diabetes type 2 sugar due to the global diet. declare.
Another important factor: People are eating too much red and processed meat, such as bacon, hot dogs, salami and the like, the study said. Those three factors – eating too few whole grains and too many grains and processed meats – were the main cause of more than 14 million new cases of type 2 diabetes in 2018, according to research published in the journal Nature. published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
In fact, research estimated 7 out of 10 cases of type 2 diabetes worldwide in 2018 were linked to poor food choices.
“These new findings highlight important areas of focus at national and global levels to improve nutrition and reduce the devastating burden of disease,” said Mozaffarian, who is also the journal’s editor-in-chief. diabetes. Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter.
Mozaffarian and his team developed a model of dietary research between 1990 and 2018 and applied the model to 184 countries. The study found that compared with 1990, there were 8.6 million more cases of type 2 diabetes due to poor diet in 2018.
Researchers find that overeating unhealthy foods is more responsible for type 2 diabetes on a global level than undereating healthy food, especially for men compared to women, younger than older people, and in urban versus rural areas.
More than 60% of all cases of dietary illness globally are caused by overeating just six harmful dietary habits: eating too much refined rice, wheat and potatoes; too much processed and unprocessed red meat; and drinking too many sugary drinks and juices.
Inadequate intake of the five protective factors in the diet – fruits, non-starchy vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains and yogurt – is responsible for just over 39% of new cases.
People in Poland and Russia, where the diet tends to focus on potatoes, red and processed meat, and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe as well as Central Asia, have higher rates of disease. New type 2 diabetes associated with the highest diet.
Colombia, Mexico and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean also have high numbers of new cases, which the researchers say may be due to reliance on sugary drinks and processed meats, as well as eating less. whole grains.
“Our modeling approach does not demonstrate a causal relationship and our findings should be considered risk estimates,” the authors write.
