Increased consumption of refined carbohydrates and the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States: an ecologic assessment1,2,3
Lee S Gross, Li Li, Earl S Ford and Simin Liu
1 From the Inter-Medic Medical Group, North Port, FL (LSG); the Department of Family Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University (LL); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (ESF); the Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (SL); and the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (SL).
2 Supported by a CI-8 Clinical Investigator Award from Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (to LL).
3 Address reprint requests to LS Gross, Inter-Medic Medical Group, 2630 Bobcat Village Center Road, North Port, FL 34288. E-mail: leegross@msn.com.
This study can be accessed at: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/79/5/774
The study concludes that increasing intakes of refined carbohydrate (corn syrup) were associated type 2 diabetes
observed in the United States during the 20th century. In contrast, protein and fat were not associated with the prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
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