Instant Noodles Raise Metabolic Risk

Eating instant noodles more than twice weekly was associated with an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome regardless of dietary patterns according to a team of researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Eulji University in Korea. Recognizing that "the consumption of instant noodles is relatively high in Asian populations," the researchers investigated and discovered those participants who most often conformed to the noodle diet had an increased prevalence of abdominal obesity, high LDL cholesterol, and high triglycerides. Journal of Nutrition, July 2014