14 DAY TRIAL // Experts with the Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (INSERM) in Paris say that a higher intake of acid in women's diets makes them more likely to develop diabetes later on in their lives. The team found that type 2 diabetes risk increased the most for this group.
A paper detailing the research was published in the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) journal Diabetologia. The work was conducted on a representative sample of 66,000 women, so researchers were able to clearly observe the causal link, EurekAlert reports.
The risk is especially high for women who consume standard Western diets, which are very rich acidogenic foods, such as animal products. At the same time, women tend to consume low amounts of fruits and vegetables, so there is nothing compensating for the high acid intake.
“We have demonstrated for the first time in a large prospective study that dietary acid load was positively associated with type 2 diabetes risk, independently of other known risk factors for diabetes,” the research team said in a recent statement.