QUALITY OF CARBS MATTER FOR DIABETES RISK
QUALITY OF CARBS MATTER FOR DIABETES RISK
Check out this Healio article highlighting the importance of HIGH QUALITY carbohydrate intake (especially whole grains!) in lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Healio: ‘Quality of carbohydrate matters’ in lowering diabetes risk
“They found that replacing 5% of energy from saturated fat with 5% of energy from low-quality carbohydrates — refined grains, sugary foods, and potatoes — was associated with a higher type 2 diabetes risk (HR = 1.05; 95% CI, 1-1.09). However, substituting 5% of energy from saturated fat with high-quality carbohydrates, such as whole grain bread, brown rice, rye, barley and quinoa, was associated with a lower type 2 diabetes risk (HR = 0.93; 95% CI, 0.87-0.99).”
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