A study looks at data from 1990 and 2018 for an insight into which dietary factors are driving the increase in type 2 diabetes worldwide.
Researchers have identified three dietary factors that could be most to blame for the increase in type 2 diabetes.
They considered 11 dietary factors and found the three most responsible for the rise in diabetes were: not eating enough whole grains like oats and whole wheat, eating too much refined rice and wheat, and eating too much processed meat. Senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, who is Jean Mayer professor of nutrition and dean for policy at the Friedman School, said:"Our study suggests poor carbohydrate quality is a leading driver of diet-attributable type 2 diabetes globally, and with important variation by nation and over time.
The Nature Medicine study found that poor diet contributed to more than 14.1 million cases of type 2 diabetes in 2018 - more than 70% of new cases worldwide.All 184 countries saw an increase in the disease between 1990 and 2018, with the study also finding that poor diet is causing a larger number of type 2 diabetes cases in men versus women, in younger versus older adults, and in urban versus rural residents.
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