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Abstract
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome MetS increased significantly worldwide. Nutrition represents an important modifiable factor affecting MetS risk. This study aimed to find out the correlation between consumed foods and metabolic syndrome. A cross-sectional, case-control study recruited 458 adult subjects (228 MetS and 230 controls, aged 25 to 60 years).A special form for collecting data about socioeconomic status, lifestyle, health history, anthropometry measurements, biochemical parameters, food consumption, and nutrients intakes. The majority of subjects were from urban areas, and one-third of them were male. Different degrees of obesity were prevalent among control and MetS subjects, but morbid obesity was prevalent among 24.6% of the MetS subjects and none of the control subjects. All blood biomarkers among the MetS group exceeded the reference values and were significantly higher than the values of control subjects. Eating outside, stewed food, white fish, white bread, whole bread, French bread, Egyptian pie, rice, medames, potatoes, groundnut, aged cheese, cottage cheese, stuffed cabbage, eggplant, sunflower oil, cotton oil, ghee industrial, animal fat, and tehenih significantly increased the occurrence of MetS. On contrary, grilled food, low-fat milk, green tea, Nescafe, fresh juice, cow milk, ice cream, cucumber, green salad, green peas, squash, taro, apple, grape, guava, mandarin, fruits season, molasses, olive oil, cow-buffalo meat, chicken, pigeon, tuna, liver, energy, protein, carbohydrates, fibers, vitamin A, ascorbic acid, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and copper significantly decreased the occurrence of metabolic syndrome. In conclusion, this study provides pieces of evidence that diet significantly correlated with.