Eat More Fiber May Reduce The Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes

Eating a higher-fiber diet is important to optimum health for a variety of reasons

. High fiber diet has been prove to lower cholesterol level in the blood, control your blood sugar levels, improve slow digestion, prevent cancer and prevent constipation. Fiber can actually help us to eat less and lose excess weight.

According to researchers, eating more fiber is associated with reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes.

A recent study from Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University followed 40,000 African American women over eight years and looked at their dietary habits while noting the development of type 2 diabetes within the group. The researchers found that the more high fiber cereals consumed, the lower the risk for diabetes in the women.

Increasing cereal fiber in the diet may be an effective means of reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease that has reached epidemic proportions in black women, concludes Dr. Supriya Krishman, lead author on the study published in the November 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

An earlier report from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston found similar results with data from more than 286,000 women who had participated in the NursesHealth Studies and other research programs. During the 12 to 18 year follow up, approximately 11,000 women were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but the women who ate more whole grain foods were less likely to develop the disease.

The authors report that just two servings a day of whole grains were associated with a 21% decrease in the risk for diabetes. They suggest that these studies consistently support increasing whole grain consumption for the prevention of type 2 diabetes.

In general, try to increase the fiber in your diet. By eating more fiber rich foods, such as whole grains, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and high fiber fruits, you can not only lose weight, but also decrease your risk of diabetes, colon cancer, hemorrhoids, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

by: Healthy_Woman

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