Starch in bread and cereals blamed for short-sighted children

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Researchers have discovered a child who eats too much bread may grow up with

short-sightedness.

 

A new study has found that refined starches in breads and cereals increase

insulin levels during digestion.

 

This can affect the development of the eyeball, making it abnormally long and

causing short-sightedness.

 

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Starch in bread and cereals blamed for short-sighted children

Researchers have discovered a child who eats too much bread may grow up with

short-sightedness.

 

A new study has found that refined starches in breads and cereals increase

insulin levels during digestion.

 

This can affect the development of the eyeball, making it abnormally long and

causing short-sightedness.

 

Rapid digestion of the starches forces the pancreas to pump out more insulin

which leads to a fall in a binding protein which in turn upsets eyeball

development.

 

The theory could explain the increase in myopia in developed countries over the

past 200 years.

 

New Scientist reports the research was carried out by a joint team from Colorado

State University and the University of Sydney.

 

There is already evidence to support the theory.

 

While fewer than 1% of Inuit and Pacific islanders had myopia early in the last

century the figure now stands at 50%.

 

Story filed: 18:58 Wednesday 3rd April 2002

 

 

 

 

 

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