Eating more fruits and vegetables is good for preventing diabetes

eating more fruits and vegetables really prevent diabetes? The latest scientific research gives the answer.
Reporters from West Lake University learned that the school's School of Life Sciences Professor Zheng Yusheng, together with more than 40 nutritionists in Europe, after 5 years of team work, from the point of view of blood nutrition markers to prove that more fruit and vegetable intake is conducive to the prevention of diabetes (this article refers to type 2 diabetes).
the study, eating an increase of 66 grams of fruits and vegetables a day reduced the risk of diabetes by 25 percent. This provides valuable advice and reference for dietary guidance in the field of public health. The findings were published online July 9 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
"We tracked more than 10,000 cases of diabetes in eight European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Denmark, and found that eating more fruits and vegetables did have a positive effect on diabetes prevention from the point of view of nutritional markers through a healthy population of more than 13,000 people. "As the first author of the paper, Zheng said.
the study, the team recorded seven nutrient indicators in the initial blood of the experimental population, including vitamin C and six types of carotene. These seven blood indicators were shown to be nutritional markers corresponding to effective fruit and vegetable intake. Overall, the more fruits and vegetables you eat, the higher the content of these seven indicators in the body.
regular measurements and tracking, the team found that the higher the nutritional markers in the body, the lower the risk of diabetes, suggesting that eating more fruits and vegetables can effectively reduce the risk of diabetes. Statistics show that the seven nutritional markers were increased by a standardized unit overall - corresponding to an increase of 66 grams of fruits and vegetables per day , reducing the risk of diabetes by 25 percent.
said the health control group of more than 10,000 cases of diabetes and more than 13,000 people was screened from more than 400,000 people over a nearly 10-year period, so there is long-term data to support the reliability and stability of the conclusions.
"There have been a number of teams that have done similar research before. Some teams use questionnaires, which may have the subjective will of the experimenter, so there may be errors in the results. Other research teams may have samples of only a few
, and the tracking time is relatively short, so the statistics are not very representative. The study has a large sample size, a long experimental time, and the results are verified by a more scientific method, which is of great significance in the field of public health. Zheng said.