What is the risk of fried chicken on your health?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women who eat fried chicken every day are 13% more likely to die prematurely than those who do not eat it, according to a US study.

The study concluded that fried fish is not much better for health because the chances are increased by 7% if eaten daily.

"Consuming fried foods increases the total number of calories and, as a result, the risk of obesity is badociated with a higher risk of death," said Wei Bao, senior researcher at the University of Hawaii. 39; Iowa.

In North America, as many as one in three adults consume fast fried foods, noted Bau and colleagues in the study published in the medical journal BMG.

Previous research had linked fried foods to an increased risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, but their badociation with premature death was unclear.

To conduct this study, researchers examined food questionnaires from approximately 107,000 women aged 50 to 79 who participated in the Women's Health Initiative study between 1993 and 2017.

The researchers followed the participants for about 18 years on average. During the follow-up period, 3,588 women died, including 9,320 with heart problems and 8,358 with cancer.

To evaluate the consumption of fried foods, the researchers examined what participants had said about the consumption of certain foods at the beginning of their studies, including fried chicken, fried fish, french fries and other foods cooked the same way.

After excluding the effect of other factors that may accelerate death, the researchers concluded that regular consumption of fried foods was badociated with a higher risk of death than any other cause, including heart problems, but that There was no clear badociation with cancer death.

Participants who ate fried foods were more likely than younger, non-white women with low levels of education, low income and generally poor food quality.

The study offers new evidence that the way a food is cooked can turn it into a healthy food, which has a major negative impact on health, says Dr. Clyde Yancy of the Faculty of Medicine of the United States. University of Vinnberg in Chicago.