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Diabetes risk in daily butter intake

Daily intake of just 12 grams of butter may double your risk of developing type 2 diabetes

Diabetes risk in daily butter intake
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Press Trust of India Boston
Daily intake of just 12 grams of butter, which is rich in saturated fatty acids and trans fats, may double your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study has warned.

Researchers, including Marta Guasch-Ferre from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in the US, evaluated the associations between total and subtypes of fat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes.

In addition, they evaluated the relationship between food sources rich in saturated fatty acids and the incidence of type 2 diabetes.

The findings showed that those participants who consumed higher amounts of saturated fatty acids and animal fat