BMJ: Fruit and vegetable diet and type 2 diabetes risk

!---- researchers recently looked at the relationship between plasma vitamin C and carotenoid content as indicators of fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of type 2 diabetesthe study was conducted in eight European countries, including 9,754 people with type 2 diabetes and 13,662 participants in the EPIC-InterAct studyThe main endpoint of thestudy is type 2 diabetesvariable-variable models, higher plasma vitamin C levels were associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (0.82 less than the risk was 0.82 per standard), and there was a similar correlation with total carotene content (0.75 harm ratio per standard deviation)the participants' plasma vitamin C and carotenoid content were stratified, compared to the lowest 1/5 group of participants, the risk ratio of type 2 diabetes was 0.77, 0.66, 0.59 and 0.50, and the lowest 1/5, medium and maximum 1/5 participants had a median self-reported fruit and vegetable intake of 274 g/day, 396 g/day and 508 g/day, respectivelya standard deviation in composite biomarker scores, equivalent to 66g/day of total fruit and vegetable intake, associated with a risk ratio of 0.75if this is achieved across the population, this equates to a 0.95 reduction in the absolute risk of follow-up per 1,000 people per 1,000 peoplestudy found that fruit and vegetable consumption was negatively associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes, and a moderate increase in the fruit and vegetable diet could help prevent type 2 diabetes