gee..no kidding..fast food bad fer ya? who would have thought...

[Guest guest]

Study Exposes Fast Food Health Dangers

Contributed by Carla Sharetto | 31 December, 2004 23:11 GMT

 

 

" This appears to be the first scientific, comprehensive long-term

study to show a strong connection between fast-food consumption,

obesity, and risk for type 2 diabetes. "

Scientists conducting a study involving more than 3,000 participants

have come to the same general conclusion as the controversial

documentary, " Supersize Me, " with its admittedly unscientific study

of one individual: Frequent consumption of fast food is bad for your

health.

While Morgan Spurlock's one-month adventure in gorging on McDonald's

fare for the purpose of making a documentary film has been criticized

on a number of scores, a long-term study published in the January 1

issue of The Lancet offers compelling evidence to support the film

maker's main contention.

 

Fast Food Increases Obesity, Diabetes Risk

 

Researchers have shown a correlation between fast food, weight gain,

and insulin resistance in what appears to be the first long-term

study on this subject.

 

The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study

by Mark Pereira, Ph.D., assistant professor in epidemiology,

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and David Ludwig,

M.D., Ph.D., director of the Obesity Program at Children's Hospital

Boston, reported that fast food increases the risk of obesity and

type 2 diabetes.

 

Participants who consumed fast food two or more times a week gained

approximately 10 more pounds and had twice as great increase in

insulin resistance in the 15-year period than participants who

consumed fast food less than once per week.

 

Other Factors Considered

 

" Fast-food consumption has increased in the United States during the

past three decades, " said Pereira. " While there have been many

discussions about fast-food's effects on obesity, this appears to be

the first scientific, comprehensive long-term study to show a strong

connection between fast-food consumption, obesity, and risk for type

2 diabetes, " he noted.

 

" The CARDIA study factored in and monitored lifestyle factors

including television viewing, physical activity, alcohol consumption,

and smoking, but determined that increase in body weight and insulin

resistance from fast-food intake seemed to be largely independent of

these other lifestyle factors, " said Ludwig.

 

Fifteen Years of Monitoring

 

Fast-food frequency was lowest for white women (about 1.3 times per

week) compared with the other ethnic and gender groups (about twice a

week). Frequency was higher in African-Americans than in whites and

in men than in women for every examination year. Age-adjusted fast-

food frequency was relatively stable over time among African-

Americans but fell in those who were white.

 

This study of cardiovascular disease risk factor evolution included

3,031 young (age 18-30 years in 1985) African-American and white

adults whose frequency of fast-food visits, changes in body weight

and insulin resistance were monitored and measured for 15 years. This

was a multi-center, population-based study with study centers in

Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and

Oakland, California.

 

http://health.dailynewscentral.net/content/view/000251/37/

[Guest guest]

Thanks for this. I had my mom and sister watch Super-Size Me when I

visited them this past week. I just sent this information as a

follow-up.

Sara

 

, fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:

> Study Exposes Fast Food Health Dangers

> Contributed by Carla Sharetto | 31 December, 2004 23:11 GMT

>

>

> " This appears to be the first scientific, comprehensive long-term

> study to show a strong connection between fast-food consumption,

> obesity, and risk for type 2 diabetes. "

> Scientists conducting a study involving more than 3,000

participants

> have come to the same general conclusion as the controversial

> documentary, " Supersize Me, " with its admittedly unscientific

study

> of one individual: Frequent consumption of fast food is bad for

your

> health.

> While Morgan Spurlock's one-month adventure in gorging on

McDonald's

> fare for the purpose of making a documentary film has been

criticized

> on a number of scores, a long-term study published in the January

1

> issue of The Lancet offers compelling evidence to support the film

> maker's main contention.

>

> Fast Food Increases Obesity, Diabetes Risk

>

> Researchers have shown a correlation between fast food, weight

gain,

> and insulin resistance in what appears to be the first long-term

> study on this subject.

>

> The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA)

study

> by Mark Pereira, Ph.D., assistant professor in epidemiology,

> University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and David Ludwig,

> M.D., Ph.D., director of the Obesity Program at Children's

Hospital

> Boston, reported that fast food increases the risk of obesity and

> type 2 diabetes.

>

> Participants who consumed fast food two or more times a week

gained

> approximately 10 more pounds and had twice as great increase in

> insulin resistance in the 15-year period than participants who

> consumed fast food less than once per week.

>

> Other Factors Considered

>

> " Fast-food consumption has increased in the United States during

the

> past three decades, " said Pereira. " While there have been many

> discussions about fast-food's effects on obesity, this appears to

be

> the first scientific, comprehensive long-term study to show a

strong

> connection between fast-food consumption, obesity, and risk for

type

> 2 diabetes, " he noted.

>

> " The CARDIA study factored in and monitored lifestyle factors

> including television viewing, physical activity, alcohol

consumption,

> and smoking, but determined that increase in body weight and

insulin

> resistance from fast-food intake seemed to be largely independent

of

> these other lifestyle factors, " said Ludwig.

>

> Fifteen Years of Monitoring

>

> Fast-food frequency was lowest for white women (about 1.3 times

per

> week) compared with the other ethnic and gender groups (about

twice a

> week). Frequency was higher in African-Americans than in whites

and

> in men than in women for every examination year. Age-adjusted fast-

> food frequency was relatively stable over time among African-

> Americans but fell in those who were white.

>

> This study of cardiovascular disease risk factor evolution

included

> 3,031 young (age 18-30 years in 1985) African-American and white

> adults whose frequency of fast-food visits, changes in body weight

> and insulin resistance were monitored and measured for 15 years.

This

> was a multi-center, population-based study with study centers in

> Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

and

> Oakland, California.

>

> http://health.dailynewscentral.net/content/view/000251/37/