Taking time to cook and prepare the majority of your meals at home is a guarantee of good health. Indeed, according to this new study, eating 11-14 home-cooked meals each week would reduce the risk of diabetes type 2 by 13%.
The researchers carried out a study with 58,000 women and 41,000 men and followed them between 1986 and 2012. None of the volunteers had diabetes. heart disease or a Cancer at the start of the study.
The study’s findings revealed that volunteers who reported eating once or twice a day, that is, consuming an average of 11 to 14 home-cooked meals per week, had a 13% reduced risk of diabetes compared with participants taking less than 6 home-cooked meals each week, usually having lunch or dinner away from home.
“Consuming already cooked or pre-prepared meals from the store, in a restaurant or to take out has been a trend that has increased significantly in the United States over the past 50 years,” explains Geng Zong, researcher at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston. (United States). “At the same time, the rates of Type 2 diabetes have also increased. “
Diabetes in numbers
9% of adults are now affected by diabetes in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), In France, it affects about 3 million people, or 4.7% of the population. Figures that increase each year due to bad eating habits and an increasingly sedentary daily life. Diagnosed late, type 2 diabetes can damage the heart, kidneys, blood vessels, eyes, and nerves. The diabetes prevalence rate fell from 2.6% in 2006 to 4.4% in 2009 according to the National Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS).
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