According to the study published moments ago by Fox News, it says
that the instant noodles commonly known as ramen may increase people’s
risk of metabolic changes linked to heart disease and stroke.
The research added that eating instant noodles could pose a challenge
with the human metabolic process thus resulting in heart diseases and
stroke in the long run.
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
prepare and eat major foods.
In the study, “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, published in the Journal of Nutrition, emphasized 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, USA, 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.
It was gathered that to arrive at this conclusion, Shin and his team
at Baylor University and Harvard studied had 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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