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Can nitrites in flour give you diabetes?

Hams, sausages, sandwiches… More than 15,000 products containing added nitrites or nitrates are on the French market. Their effects on our health have been thoroughly studied for years. already last summer, ANSES confirmed “the presence of an association between the risk of colorectal cancer and exposure to these substances.”

The new French study was published in this Tuesday’s journal Plos Medicine offers this timeassociation between supplemental nitrites and a possible increased risk of type 2 diabetes,” declares Bernard Sroure, a postdoctoral researcher at Inserm who led the research. A chronic disease causing excess glucose in the blood, diabetes affects about 3.5 million people in France and can cause serious complications (myocardial infarction, heart or kidney failure, stroke, etc.). Recall that if type 1 diabetes, which occurs in childhood, is associated with…

Source: Le Figaro

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