J Diabetes: Studied 200 million Chinese diets and they drew the world's first map of taste and disease...

Recently, Journal of Diabetes published an interesting Chinese paper that mapped the first chinese diet and metabolic diseaseusing using the largest study sample in history, more than 200 million Chinese(originally published on Journal of Diabetes)the study, conducted by Ning Guang, led by a team at Ruijin Hospital, affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University, is the first large-scale use of passive data from the Internet to explore the relationship between Chinese's habits and diseasecompared to past surveys and self-reported cohort studies, the Internet data is more objective and accurately reflects the health differences caused by differences in cooking and taste preferences across China - areas that love high-temperature cooking have more high blood pressure, diabetes and high body mass index (BMI) and have a lower risk of diabetes in spicy areasmore than 200 million people! Where does this big data come from?the study used data from Baidu's search engine and takeaway platform for the full year of 2016, with a total of 212,341,708 (213.34 million participants)The majority of users included were adults under 45 years of age, with a younger total, but the age data for 65 years exceeded 400,000, and the researchers corrected the age in the analysis"Baidu"? Doesn't that sound like it's a good idea?explain here that the study eventually compared the study's findings to the relevant national epidemiological survey data from 2010-2013, and showed no significant differencein general, Baidu's samples are consistent with medical observations(the incidence of diabetes, hypertension, and BMI vsepidemiological survey data predicted using Internet data show no significant differences)study analyzed not only the different trends in cooking patterns and tastes across the country, but also the relationship between these tendencies and latitude, temperature and economic developmentthese areas are the most unhealthy cooking! Did you get a shot at home?analysis results show that the favorite areas of fried and barbecue diet are concentrated in the vicinity of Beijing and the northeast and other high latitudes, as shown in the following two pictures, the darker the color represents the region's intake of food intake of more targeted food -fried and grilled diet area concentrated in the beijing surrounding and northeast high latitude areas
in the barbecue problem, Hainan Province is a special case in the south, its love of barbecue is no less than the northeast region In addition, Guangdong, although not comparable to Beijing, but also showed love for frying and barbecue in terms of temperature, fried food is more attractive to residents of colder winters From an economic perspective, the researchers observed a positive correlation between the popularity of barbecues and the increase in economic levels disease prediction and practical observation data analysis shows that the preference for fried and barbecue will lead to high BMI, high blood pressure and the high incidence of diabetes, this triple hit only appears in fried and grilled food, other sweet tastes and love of spicy and so on not so miserable .. Not only that, but they are also associated with fasting blood sugar and abnormally high blood sugar after meals in the discussion, the researchers believe that the main reason for this phenomenon is that fried and grilled food cooking is subject to high-temperature process, in the process of high-temperature cooking, cooking oil may produce harmful substances, barbecue can also cause disease-causing dangerous ingredients in addition to harmful ingredients, frying or frying, etc to reduce the moisture content of food, increase the calorie efficiency of food, and from the taste of crisp and fried flavor and other channels, may lead to the pursuit of taste and eat more, resulting in a very high probability of metabolic problems .. At the same time, it is generally believed that barbecue-paired drinks also have potential health risks, but unfortunately the study did not include the analysis of drink data "fried party" is not safe, "sweet party" is not immune Although not like fried and barbecue as "one-click" BMI, high blood pressure and diabetes, but love of sweets also has health risks chart below shows that sweet people are concentrated in coastal areas, and the northern region's love of sweets is also prominent The researchers analyzed that the high proportion of sweet stake was highly related to economic development In addition, this is the only taste with a significant gender difference, with women loving sweets more than men (China's "Sweet Party" map) study analysis found that high sweet intake is associated with an increasein incidence of diabetes and abnormally high fasting blood sugar the "Spicy Party" is the healthiest? Sichuan, which has names on the three maps above but has not been named, can finally rise up.. The researchers separated hemp and spicy, but in general, Sichuan led the difference in distribution , with little difference in distribution - ("Spicy Party" distribution map) ("Hemp Party" distribution map) analysis found that the degree of eating spicy food was inversely proportional to the incidence of diabetes, fasting blood sugar and post-dinner blood sugar levels The special taste of "hemp" is also inversely related to fasting blood sugar levels study also noted that places with higher summer temperatures have a low interest in "spicy" why eating spicy food helps reduce the incidence of diabetes, the researchers note in the discussion section of the paper that studies of capsaicin and metabolic health suggest that it can lower fasting blood sugar levels while maintaining insulin levels frying and cooking? Good metabolism "boiled" out! the last flavor of food classified in the study is instant-boiled food, not the meaning of bubble noodles, but to hot pot culture-based boiled diet, distribution is naturally also in Sichuan as the core, in the north is the most prominent in Beijing - instant-boiled food distribution the degree of preference of this diet is also inversely proportional to the low-rate blood sugar level The researchers concluded that the cooking temperature of the cooking in this way is not as high as frying and grilling, and therefore produces less harmful ingredients people to eat for the day, disease prevention should also start from the diet! can see that the preference for unhealthy eating areas actually occupies a large part of our territory In the discussion, the researchers pointed out that in the past a large number of dietary studies from abroad, more discussion of the Effects of the Mediterranean diet, in fact, Chinese diet guidelines do not have much reference value the study, led by the Ningguang Institute, clarifies the data and situation in China, and is more instructive about how we eat and cook ourselves The researchers also point out that for areas that prefer frying and grilling, officials should consider dietary interventions, while for sweet-loving areas, specific guidelines could be considered to guide residents more specifically in sugar intake in addition, the study, by linking Internet data and real-world research results, confirmed that the huge data provided by the Internet can reduce data bias and can truly reflect the link between eating habits and metabolic diseases, although still in the groping stage, but it is a desirable path of research