Eating French fries can raise the risk of diabetes: Study

(NewsNation) — If you're a French fry lover, new research suggests you may want to start limiting how much of them you eat.

In the study published in The British Medical Journal, Harvard researchers found that eating French fries three times a week was associated with a 20% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes in comparison to having them once a week or less. According to the American Diabetes Association, there are 1.2 million Americans diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each year.

Researchers analyzed data from 205,107 adults in the U.S. spanning 40 years who didn’t have diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer when the study began. They found that the risk of developing diabetes was not from the potato itself, but from the method in which they were prepared, with the deep-fried si