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Health See other Health Articles Title: Fast-food burgers, fried chicken, and Chinese food linked to type 2 diabetes in new study Frank L. of Sacramento, a business professional in his mid-40's, weighed 350 lbs at 5' 11" in height, and had type 2 diabetes that came on when he was 36. Almost every day he'd take lunch at fast-food restaurants, thinking his steady diet of fast-food type Chinese food was healthy for him. After all, it was mostly vegetarian and seafood he ate. He'd order up a double portion of chow mein, which consisted mostly of fried noodles in a sauce rich in corn starch, fats, and salt with a few pieces of fried onions, cabbage, and celery. Also see the UC Davis article, "Take three steps to help prevent diabetes." Would a diet higher in water soluble fiber help Frank L. a 44-year old Sacramento sedentary man's problem with belly fat and an expanding waistline as well as hypertension, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and an enlarged heart? Will more plant fiber help his expanding waist circumference and metabolic syndrome? UC Davis emphasizes research supporting the role of fiber in preventing diabetes. Fiber is present only in plant foods: fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, cereals and legumes. For diabetes prevention, UC Davis endocrinologist Pamela T. Prescott recommends aiming for a level of 20 to 35 gm per day of fiber, about double the amount in the average American diet. The American Diabetics Association recommends 40 grams per day of fiber for people who already have diabetes. How do you know how much you're getting? Typical fruits and vegetables contain 2 to 4 grams per serving. You can determine the fiber content in breads and cereals from the nutrition label. Large amounts (8 gm/serving) are found in cereals consisting mostly of bran, while a serving of Cheerios or oatmeal provides about 3 gm. Bread generally varies with the proportion of whole wheat flour. But what if you can't eat wheat or some other grains? You could try lentil or pea flour and make your own bread. For example, the dry grinder made by Vita Mix will turn beans, lentils, peas or any grains such as brown rice or whole oat groats into flour or flax seeds and nuts into meal. Try almond meal or flax seed meal added to bean flours. You can buy black bean flour, for example, or grind your own beans into flour or meal consistencies. Lentils, split peas and beans are good sources of both protein and fiber, and should be eaten daily. They generally provide between 5 and 8 gm of fiber per serving. A new study published just a few days ago, in the journal of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, titled "Dietary fiber and subsequent changes in body weight and waist circumference in European men and women," Vol. 91, No. 2, 329-336, February 2010, may support a beneficial role of higher intake of dietary fiber, especially cereal fiber, in prevention of body-weight and waist circumference gain. Fruit and vegetable fiber was not associated with weight change but had a similar association with waist circumference change when compared with intake of total dietary fiber and cereal fiber. Frank L. didn't eat cereal for breakfast. Not whole oat groats, not a smoothie with psyllium husks, flax seed meal, chia seeds liquefied in a blender with berries, or any combination of other high-fiber foods. For Frank L., there would always be a huge portion of steamed white rice, and sometimes a double portion of carrots, mushrooms, and broccoli. "I thought I was eating healthy vegetables," he'd repeat, amazed that vegetarian fare could be implicated in a study of foods that may increase the incidence of diabetes. He had Chinese fast-food for his usual breakfast at 11 am or Noon. He thought this was a healthier change from his usual two doughnuts and coffee that he had eaten daily since his teen years. Lunch would be a salty tuna sandwich on white bread, even though he had untreated hypertension which he ignored, thinking a diet change to fast food vegetables would be better for breakfast. Lunch would be at 3 PM, usually a fast food burger or fish sandwiches. He'd usually order a barbequed chicken sandwich from various fast food eateries. Other foods he'd eat were lots of fast-food fried fish. He thought the fish sandwiches were healthy because he'd cut out a twenty-year diet of corned beef or pastrami sandwiches on rye and large, sweet milk shakes or bottles of soda pop. He'd cut out his favorite fries and fast-food burgers when he'd been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. "I had no idea that what looked like healthy fast foods were still linked to type 2 diabetes," he exclaimed. For dinner, he'd have a bowl of soup or stew and then start on the cheese cake at home, thinking cheese would give him plenty of calcium. He'd then pour yogurt over the cheese cake and cherries in syrup, thinking it's healthy if he added spoonfuls of pomegranate extract over the cheesecake. His wife was at the end of her wits. "He used to spend $40 a week on cake," his wife complained. Mr. L. couldn't understand how type 2 diabetes could be linked to fried chicken, fast-food burgers, and Chinese food. "There's a fast-food eatery on almost every other corner in Sacramento, at least in my neighborhood," He said. "You cross the street and find fast-food ice-cream stores, a block away, fast-food Chinese eateries, and on the next corner, fast food fried chicken fast-food offerings. On almost every corner you can find fast-food burgers in some Sacramento neighborhoods. "Ten years ago you'd find the fried fish and chips eateries. Today it's the burgers and Chinese fast-food places, and a few sandwich shops. But why is everything fried? You can't find a vegetarian restaurant in every neighborhood. Why are the slow food places so expensive and the fast-food that's fried so low-cost?" Apparently, a recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has already linked certain fried fast foods to diabetes. Fast foods not included in the study include Mr L's favorites such as deep fried hot dogs, fried, batter-coated Snickers bars, and barbeque. Mr. L's breakfast used to consist of two doughnuts and a large coffee from the time he was a teenager until his early 40's. One of his in-laws, a 250 lb physician diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in adulthood, had a history of ordering large portions of restaurant food. His favorite was a large breakfast of a stack of blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, and coffee. Dr. K. a 47-year old internal medicine physician visited a San Francisco restaurant on vacation recently and ordered a large portion of fish, white rice, calamari, salad, and a large chocolate cake for the family. The portion-sizes seemed endless. He passed up the bread. Both these men are professionals in their forties. But they never seem to get enough food. The doctor weighs 250 lbs and has had type 2 diabetes for three years. He is under treatment for his diabetes and hypertension and uses stevia as a sweetener, but still orders large amounts of food when he dines out with his family. Another professional who loves fast food is 75-year old retired clinical psychologist, Dr. R. He's visiting Sacramento with his wife, a retired nurse, and looking for a "good fried chicken fast-food eatery." His appetite for fast-food fried chicken didn't stop when he received a diagnosis of both type 2 diabetes and prostate issues. He piled up a large plate of fried chicken pieces. He could have ordered grilled chicken, but he likes his chicken deep fried. He's never asked the servers in what kind of oil the chicken is fried. Dr. R's confused as to whether he should go on a plant-based diet, a fish diet (not fried) or a modified ethnic diet...but which--pan Asian, modified Mediterranean or other? His roots are in Indiana. He is aware of the recent study linking consumption of specific fast foods to type 2 diabetes. His question is whether it matters which fast foods were studied? Some fast food eateries are now offering grilled food. The question is whether chicken is grilled or deep fried, how will each cooking method influence the body and individual health? According to a study published Dec. 2009, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Consumption of restaurant foods and incidence of type 2 diabetes in African American women," consumption of restaurant meals of hamburgers, fried chicken, fried fish, and Chinese food were independently associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The study investigated the relation of restaurant meal consumption to incidence of type 2 diabetes among African American women with the use of data from the prospective Black Women's Health Study. But the two Sacramento males diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are 3rd generation Caucasian Americans with ancestry in Poland. Would it make a difference what a person's race or ethnicity is in the way his or her body is influenced by a steady diet of fast food? In the study, the participants completed mailed follow-up questionnaires every 2 years since 1995, including food-frequency questionnaires that asked about the frequency of eating restaurant meals of various types. Among 44,072 participants aged 30–69 years of age and free of diabetes at baseline, 2873 incident cases of type 2 diabetes occurred during 10 years of follow-up. Consumption of restaurant meals of hamburgers, fried chicken, fried fish, and Chinese food were independently associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Control for body mass index greatly reduced the estimates, which suggests that the associations are mediated through weight gain and obesity. The present study identified a risk factor for type 2 diabetes that may be changed by dietary modifications. According to a recent article in NaturalNews, that same study published as a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that black women who consume fried chicken or fast food burgers at least twice a week are between 40 and 70 percent more prone to develop type 2 diabetes over the course of a decade than those who do not. Not only black women but all people who consume high calorie, low nutrient fast foods on even a moderate basis are susceptible to developing the disease. Dr. Julie Palmer and her colleagues from Boston University analyzed over 44,000 black women who were instructed to complete questionnaires that they were given beginning back in 1995. Once concluded, researchers compared the results with another group of women who claimed never to eat fast food. The result was that not only were the women who ate fast food more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than the non-fast food group, they also were generally heavier with many falling into the overweight range. Did the measuring tool stand up to scrutiny? Instead of taking a waist-to-hip ratio measurement, the study used the Body Mass Index. The standard measuring tool for determining healthy body weight is the Body Mass Index (BMI). A healthy BMI is somewhere between 18.5 and 24.9. Most of the participants in the fast food group were somewhere between 28 and 29 when they started the study, which according the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is overweight. Those in this group also continued to gain more weight during the course of the study. What foods in the study played the most important role in blood sugar disorders? The answer is hamburgers and fried chicken. It's interesting to note that movie stars who claim they love fried chicken and chocolate cake are the same famous people who also claim they have been diabetic for years with type 2 diabetes. Burgers and fried chicken prepared in the way most fast-food restaurants make them were implicated in causing the most weight gain which resulted in more cases of diabetes. Nearly 3,000 women in the fast food eating group developed type 2 diabetes by the time the study concluded. You can look at past studies from 2004 with the same conclusion. For example, look at the 2004 Boston Children's Hospital study that tracked young people for 15 years. That conclusion reported that people who ate at fast food restaurants more than twice a week gained an average of almost 10 pounds more than those who went only once a week. The twice a week group also had a 200 percent increase in insulin resistance compared to the once a week group. With the two Sacramento professional men in their 40s, did they live the same lifestyle that people would call unhealthy? And do people eating regularly in fast-food eateries selecting burgers and fried chicken live unhealthy lifestyles, that is sedentary? Does portion size affect health? Should more plant-based foods be eaten? A lot of people eating in fast-food restaurants also order sugary sodas. And sodas also have been implicated in diabetes and pancreas-related health issues. That's why you have a huge fast-foods industry that will fight to survive and make money and a huge consumer base requesting healthier food choices at the fast-foods places. Other people, including those diagnosed with diabetes are so addicted to sugar, meat, chocolate, and cheese, the four most highly addictive foods, that they won't give up their food choices. At that point only lifestyle changes in other areas might help them to consider healthier food choices.You don't always have to be born with thrifty genes and a slow thyroid to choose the specific fried foods at fast-food eateries that have been implicated in studies of diets and type 2 diabetes. Note that fast-food Chinese fare is not the same as slow-cooked food as served in China with traditional vegetables, for example. The study looked at the food prepared in fast-food eateries, not the traditional basically plant-food based traditional pan-Asian diet of vegetables, some seafood, sea vegetables, and green tea. It's the white rice and fried noodles cooked in oils and cornstarch, for example in the fast-food eateries, the deep-fried foods, not the mixed vegetables steamed. And brown rice isn't served in most American fast food eateries serving so-called Chinese foods. It would be good if customers could specify when they order fast food to hold the salt, as most fast food already is salted more than salt-sensitive people would prefer. On the other hand, having fast-food so high in salt forces salt-sensitive people to eat at home or carry a lunch box. Perhaps a study is needed comparing the health issues of people brown-bagging lunch and eating breakfasts and dinners at home with those who eat out daily.
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#4. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
these people thought chinese food was healthy?
It says right on the carton you don't have to count calories with chinese food. Oh God, you don't suppose I'll need a prescription from now on for egg foo yung, do you?
these foods make people stupid as well. they give as little thought to what they stuff in their pie hole as they do whatever shit they pour into their vacant, slum of a mind. survival for humans is self selection based upon awareness and consciousness.
#7. To: gengis gandhi (#6)
Yet you don't deny putting smoked salmon upon boiled bread and creamed cheese product results in an exponential income differential, do you? Don't make me paste entire concertos from prominent minimalist composers. I'll do it, man!
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