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Regularly eating fried food is linked with a heightened risk of death from any cause and heart-related death, among postmenopausal women, finds a US study in The BMJ today.
Foods such as fried chicken and fried fish/shellfish were associated with a higher risk of heart-related death, particularly among younger women in the study (aged 50-65 years old).
The researchers suggest that reducing consumption of fried foods, especially fried chicken and fried fish/shellfish, could have a positive public health impact.
Up to a third of North American adults have fast-food every day, and previous studies have suggested that a greater intake of fried food is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
But evidence about the risk of death linked with eating fried foods is limited and subject to much debate.
So to address this, US researchers investigated the association of eating fried food with death from any cause, and in particular heart and cancer-related death.
[...] After taking account of potentially influential factors such as lifestyle, overall diet quality, education level and income, the researchers found that regularly eating fried foods was associated with a heightened risk of death from any cause and, specifically, heart-related death: those who ate one or more servings a day had an 8% higher risk compared with those who did not eat fried food.
[...] But the researchers found no evidence that eating fried food was associated with cancer-related death.
[...] But the authors highlight the large size and diversity of the study sample, and say that "we have identified a risk factor for cardiovascular mortality that is readily modifiable by lifestyle."
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @01:20PM (3 children)
Gives a whole new meaning to #timesup! don't it?
Quick! Let's all chip in and get dine and dash from KFC and Popeye's delivered to Pelosi, Hilarity and anyone else for whom a shorter lifespan, translates into a better quality of life for us all. Hell I'd be willing to have my taxes upped by 10% just to fund a congressional women's caucus daily fried chicken luncheon.
OTOH I kinda wish this effected men as well. I mean let's face it!
There's a lot of shit ways to die, but a lifetime spent eatin fried chicken ain't one of them! (unless it's church's chicken *shudder*)
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 30 2019, @02:05PM
Want to die very, very slowly?
Twenty years work for you?
Eat Sushi.
It it every single day.
For twenty years.
Or, at your option, Sashimi.
Hg, you see.
From coal.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @02:34PM (1 child)
Why the heck was the OP modded flamebait? Are we really so full of SJW types now that the humor was completely lost?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @11:20PM
Yes. In the grim future of social
vengeancejustice, there is no humor.