Fast food and obesity: a sweet, far from happy road to diabetes

Authors

  • Pablo Arias Faculty of Medical Sciences, National University of Rosario (UNR), Santa Fe, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v51i2.52

Keywords:

obesity, feeding, fast food

Abstract

Making time at an airport in the middle of last June, bored with the usual readings, I decided to get distracted by a copy of the National Geographic Society magazine. Suddenly from the index I captured the title of an article written by Tracie McMillan, an independent journalist from the United States, who deals with issues related to food and equity. The article was entitled: "Do corn subsidies really make us fat?" (Something like: "Is it true that corn subsidies make us fat?"), And took as a starting point a scientific paper published in 2016 in the magazine JAMA Internal Medicine by a group of authors belonging, among other institutions, to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, its acronym in English) of the city of Atlanta.

Author Biography

Pablo Arias, Faculty of Medical Sciences, National University of Rosario (UNR), Santa Fe, Argentina

Endocrinologist; Ordinary Full Professor, Chair of Human Physiology

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Published

2023-01-10

How to Cite

Arias, P. (2023). Fast food and obesity: a sweet, far from happy road to diabetes. Journal of the Argentine Society of Diabetes, 51(2 (2017), 29–31. https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v51i2.52

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