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Processed Meats, Foods Greatly Increase Diabetes Risk

  • November 08, 2004

No big surprise here about a study that found processed foods and meats are so bad for you they increase your risk of diabetes. What's really interesting, however, is just how bad those numbers really are, especially if you eat a "Western" diet that includes candy, French fries, refined grains and red and processed meats. Patients were nearly 50 percent more likely to develop diabetes over a 14-year period than people who ate minimal amounts of Western-type foods. In fact,...