Just because children’s parents are wealthy doesn’t mean they’ll be healthy. Likewise, kids from poorer families aren’t necessarily less healthy than those kids with richer and better-educated parents.
These findings — from an international team of researchers from the United Kingdom, Estonia, Denmark and Norway — challenge the belief that being poor leads to poor health and lifestyles.
In fact, a study in the July 23, 2005 issue of the British Medical Journal suggests that eating unhealthy junk food and doing less exercise may be why children of better educated parents experience a high level of insulin resistance, which increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and more.
Their conclusions were based after studying 3,189 randomly selected schoolchildren from Denmark, one of Europe’s richest countries, and Estonia and Portugal, two poorer countries.
This study is just the latest of many that illustrates the severe health consequences of eating junk food. And it’s happening all around the world. Please, parents, watch what your children eat!
2 thoughts on “Junk Food Can Trigger Insulin Resistance”
The simple solution isn’t to give up the sweets, just give up the sugar, use sugar substitutes. No, I don’t suggest Splenda or Nutrasweet. Check out the article I wrote on the topic.
http://dailyrecipes.blogspot.com/2005/07/sugar-and-its-counterparts.html
It gives some substitutes that are far better, not only for your insulin but also your teeth.
George Lake
http://www.dailyrecipes.blogspot.com
Thanks, George, for your comments, but, according to the research I’ve conducted, two of the sweet products you cited in your article, xylitol and agave, are not safe, as we’ve been led to believe. I’ll do additional researching, and I’ll post about it in the next couple of days. Connie
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