Are you a habitual eater of instant noodles? Then be ready
for the consequences as experts have linked it to challenges with the
human metabolic process thus resulting in heart diseases and stroke in
the long run.
Continue reading after the cut....
Ordinarily, noodles, a staple food is
seen as cheap, easy to prepare and best eaten by school children and
workers who have little time to eat major foods.
Fox
News says a new research has found that the instant noodles commonly
known as ramen may increase people’s risk of metabolic changes linked to
heart disease and stroke.
In the study, according to
Fox News, “women in South Korea who consumed more of the pre-cooked
blocks of dried noodles were more likely to have metabolic syndrome
regardless of what else they ate, or how much they exercised.”
The
research study published in the Journal of Nutrition emphasised that
people who had metabolic syndrome could have high blood pressure or high
blood sugar levels, with the consequence being the risk of heart
disease, stroke and diabetes.
Co-author of the study, Hyun Shin, a doctoral candidate at
the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said although instant
noodle is a convenient and delicious food, there could be an increased
risk for metabolic syndrome given the high sodium, unhealthy saturated
fat and glycemic loads in the food.
To arrive at this
conclusion, Shin and his team at Baylor University and Harvard studied
and investigated the health and diet of at least 11,000 adults in South
Korea between ages 19 to 64 looking at how many times they ate instant
noodles every week.
The researchers found that women
who ate instant noodles twice or more every week had a higher risk of
developing metabolic syndrome than those who ate less.
However,
the researchers said they could not link any association between eating
noodles such number of times and developing metabolic syndrome in men,
arguing that this may be linked to the difference in gender of men and
women including the effect of sex hormones and metabolism.
The
researchers said they picked population in South Korea because the
country is the highest consumer of noodles in the world with a
consumption rate of 3.4 billion packages of instant noodles in 2010.
Lisa
Young, a Professor and nutritionist at the New York University, while
speaking about the study, said it could apply to every part of the world
where noodles (ramen) are sold and eaten
“Instant
noodles are high in fat, high in salt, high in calories and they’re
processed; all those factors could contribute to some of the health
problems addressed.
“That doesn’t mean that every
single person is going to respond the same way, but the piece to keep in
mind is that it’s not a healthy product, and it is a processed food,”
Fox News quoted Young as saying, adding that processed foods are known
to contain high amounts of sugar and salt since they are designed to
have long shelf lives.
Young added that to eat instant
noodles and avoid the dangers in it, “number one, don’t eat it every
day; number two, portion control (in which one should eat small amount
of instant noodles and mix them with vegetables and other healthier,
non-processed foods).”
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