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

Patrice
Dougan
whole grains meal CR Filipp Romanovski on Unsplash
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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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.