Vegetable-Rich Diet Slashes Diabetes Risk



In the latest of studies studing the association between dietary food intake and the incidence of Type 2 diabetes, Raquel Villegas, from Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center (Nashville, Tennessee USA), and colleagues followed over 64,000 women residing in China, ages 40 to 70, for nearly 5 years, assessing their daily fruit and vegetable intakes and the onset of diabetes. Those women who consumed the most vegetables -- averaging 428 grams, or 15 ounces, daily -- had a 28% lower risk of developing the disease.