So, How often do you eat Instant Noodles?
- Friday, August 22, 2014
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Researchers
in South Korea, where instant noodle consumption is the highest in the world,
studied 10,711 adults, a representative sample of the Korean population
enrolled in a large survey of health and nutrition. They found two major
dietary patterns — the “traditional diet,” of fish, rice and vegetables, and
the “meat and fast-food” regimen, rich in meat and processed food, including
instant noodles.
Neither
diet as a whole was associated with metabolic syndrome — the constellation of
symptoms that includes abdominal obesity, high blood pressure and high
cholesterol and blood sugar levels, which may increase the risk of heart
disease and diabetes.
But the study, in the August issue of The Journal of Nutrition,
found that independent of other factors, women who ate instant noodles at least
twice a week were 68 percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome.
The effect was not apparent in
men. According to the senior author, Dr. Frank B. Hu, a professor of nutrition
and epidemiology at Harvard, this may be because women report their diet more
accurately or because postmenopausal women are more sensitive to the dietary
effect of carbohydrates, sodium and saturated fat.
In any case, Dr. Hu said, instant
noodles are not part of a healthy diet. “Once or twice a month is not a
problem,” he said. “But a few times a week really is.”
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/instant-noodles-tied-to-heart-risk
