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Hard line on diet and diabetes: Tough approach urged after study stresses food’s role in new cases
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Hard line on diet and diabetes: Tough approach urged after study stresses food’s role in new cases
Wednesday 26 April 2023, 03:31 AM

An insufficient intake of whole grains was found to be the largest food contributor to type 2 diabetes [Image: Filipp Romanovski on Unsplash]
Government needs to take a tougher approach to nutritional guidelines and the food industry, researchers say, after a new study estimates a “suboptima
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References
O’Hern M, Lara-Castor L, Cudhea F et al. Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries. Nature Medicine 2023 (online 17 April ahead of print). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02278-8.