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U.S.A., December 31, 2004: After many years of supposition but no real scientific data to back up their hunches, doctors and the public at large can now refer to a study that has been published in the Lancet medical journal that links fast food and type 2 diabetes. The news release says, “The results were derived after 15 years of survey involving 3,000 young people enrolled in a study of cardiac health. The study found that those who frequently ate fast-food gained 10 pounds more than those who did so less often. Such people were more than twice as likely to develop an insulin resistance.” Dr. David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children’s Hospital Boston and the senior author of the study adds, “Fast-food is commonly recognized to have very poor nutritional quality. But there have been very few studies, essentially no long-term studies, which have documented the effects of this dietary pattern on the key chronic diseases of Western civilization — obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease.” The article also points out 30,000 Americans die every year due to obesity related diseases, that 30 per cent of Americans are clinically obese and that the United Kingdom is fast-catching up, with 23 per cent of its population obese.

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