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| A major victory against the Leftist Food Nazis. A major study of 40,000 people showed no link between fried food and heart disease. |
It is a "myth" that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks
The Leftist Food Nazis who want to tell everyone how to live their lives just got a fast kick in the balls.
A major study published in the British Medical Journal found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain and the incidence of serious heart disease.
Spanish researchers followed more than 40,000 people, two-thirds of whom were women, from the mid 1990s to 2004 reports the UK Telegraph.
How often they ate fried foods, either at home or while out. They then looked to see whether eating fried foods regularly increased the likelihood of falling ill from having coronary heart disease, such as a heart attack or angina requiring surgery.
There were 606 incidents linked to heart disease in total, but they were split relatively evenly between the four groups.
The authors concluded: "In a Mediterranean country where olive and sunflower oils are the most commonly used fats for frying, and where large amounts of fried foods are consumed both at and away from home, no association was observed between fried food consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease or death."
Commenting on the findings in the BMJ, Professor Michael Leitzmann of the University of Regensburg in Germany said two other studies - one from Costa Rica and another by an international team - had also failed to find strong evidence of a link.
Fried food did contain more calories, he said, while it had also been linked to high blood pressure and obesity.
He said: "Taken together, the myth that frying food is generally bad for the heart is not supported by available evidence.
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(UK Telegraph)
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| The Leftist Food Nazis should note that KFC's Colonel Harland Sanders lived to the age of 90. |
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