Why fried food is not good
for you and your baby?
MANILA,
Philippines – Who does not love fried burger, bacon and fries? Every bite makes
you indulge with more. But for those who are planning to conceive a baby, these
food items should be avoided.
A recent study published by Diabetologia
discovered that women who eat fried food regularly before conceiving are at
increased risk of developing gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Diabetes is a growing global health
crisis that has reached epidemic proportions. Today, there are 382 million
people or 8.3 percent of the world’s total adult population living with
diabetes.
Gestational
diabetes is characterized by high blood glucose during pregnancy, currently
believed to be due to the action of insulin being blocked by hormones.
Gestational diabetes is not only associated with short-term perinatal outcomes,
but is also related to long-term metabolic risks in both mothers and their
offspring.
Researchers
distributed diet questionnaires to 15,027 women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health
Study II. Since 1991 and every 4 years thereafter, the researchers collected
diet information, including consumption of fried foods at home and away from
home, using a validated food frequency questionnaire. They found out that women
who include fried food in their regular diet seven or more times weekly are 88
percent more at-risk for gestational diabetes than those who take fried food
less.
Those who
eat fried food away from home compared to those who eat fried food from home
are more exposed to the danger. According to the study, this is because fast
food chains reuse oil that they used to fry the food.
Why not fried?
Frying is
a complex cooking process that modifies both the foods and the frying medium.
It reduces water content, increases energy density, changes fatty acid
composition and deteriorates frying oils, especially when eused, through the
processes of oxidation and hydrogenation
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“Refrying
may produce more of those detrimental chemicals,” says co-author Cuilin Zhang,
MD, an investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development, as mentioned by Time.
While
fried foods are indeed aromatic and palatable, people must also understand the
potential benefits of limiting fried food consumption to thwart gestational
diabetes in women of reproductive age.
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