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Eating More Fruit Can Reduce Risk of Developing Type-2 Diabetes

Eating More Fruit Can Reduce Risk of Developing Type-2 Diabetes
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"Eating blueberries, grapes, apples and pears cuts the risk of type 2 diabetes but drinking fruit juice can increase it, the UK's Independent said a large study has found.

Eating More Fruit Can Reduce Risk of Developing Type-2 Diabetes

Experts from the UK, Singapore and a team from Harvard School of Public Health in the US have examined whether certain fruits impact on type 2, which affects more than 3,000,000 people in Britain.
The scientists found that blueberries, grapes, raisins, apples and pears were especially protective, while drinking fruit juice could increase the risk of developing the condition by as much as 8 percent.

People who ate three standard servings of blueberries a week had a 26 percent lower chance of developing the condition, they found.
Those who replaced fruit juices with three helpings of particular whole fruits a week, including apples and pears could expect a 7 percent drop in their risk of developing type 2.

Eating different fruits affected an individual's chances of developing the condition in different ways, the research suggests.
Those eating grapes and raisins had a 12 percent reduced risk. Prunes also had a protective effect, giving an 11 percent drop in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Other fruits such as bananas, plums, peaches and apricots had a negligible impact but drinking fruit juice increased the risk by 8 per cent, according to the study.
The study, through observing the diets of 187,000 American people, shows that blueberries can cut the risk by 26% compared with 2% for three servings of any whole fruit.

The researchers examined data gathered between 1984 and 2008 from participants in three long-running studies including Nurses' Health Study, Nurses' Health Study II, and Health Professionals Follow-up Study.
The researchers suggest that the high levels of anthocyanins in fruits is likely responsible for the lowering risk.

"Fruits have highly variable contents of fibre, antioxidants, other nutrients, and phytochemicals that jointly may influence the risk," according to the study published in BMJ (British Medical Journal).

"Our data further endorse current recommendations on increasing whole fruits, but not fruit juice, as a measure for diabetes prevention," said the lead author Isao Muraki, research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.
Diabetes is an incurable condition in which the body cannot control blood sugar levels, because of problems with the hormone insulin.
In type-2 diabetes, either the pancreas cells do not make enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react properly to it. This is known as insulin resistance.

Source: Independent

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