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French fries and fried chicken is often stated as the cause of weight gain. Because it is often avoided by dieters. However, a recent study found that a fried dish is not always bad for the health.

A new study from Spain that has been published in the British Medical Journal has found that, many oil consumption no association with cardiovascular events.


Initially this study to monitor diet and cooking methods of the respondents. To connect with fried food consumption habits jatung disease. The study took 11 years, involving 40,000 people aged 29-69 years.

Initially respondents were asked the usual types of food consumed, whether fried or sauteed. To see how often they ate fried foods. Later, their health will be checked, because of frequent oil consumption has always been associated with the risk of heart disease.

At the first medical examination, none of the respondents who suffer from heart disease. But when the end of the study 606 respondents as coronary heart disease. While 1134 respondents had died. But researchers say that this incident has nothing to do with the consumption of fried foods.

Professor Michael Leitzmann from the University of Regensburg in Germany, said: "This study was able to prove the myth that cooking oil is bad for heart health."

The team concludes the study. "In a lot of that use traditional Mediterranean olive oil and sunflower seed oil for frying, they often eat and once observed no relation to coronary heart disease."

Despite that process food by frying should also be reduced. Because you'll get a lot of calories from fat absorption in oil. That's why weight loss can be improved and is bad for the health.