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Avoid juice and take fruit to cut diabetes risk :Study

New Delhi, Fri, 30 Aug 2013 NI Wire
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If you are accustomed to take drinking fruit for the perfect start of your day, then it is the suitable time to rethink about your schedule as the latest study has revealed that doing so can strongly increase the risk of diabetes.

The study was conducted from the researchers from UK, USA and Singapore. The study suggests that eating more whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes and apples, are associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, with greater fruit juice consumption having an adverse effect.

Researchers looked to examine the association of individual fruit consumption in relation to type 2 diabetes risk. Data were used from three prospective cohort studies among US adults: the Nurses' Health Study (NHS 1984 - 2008), the Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II 1991-2009) and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS 1986 - 2008).

There were 187,382 participants, who reported a diagnosis of diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline were excluded.

Ten individual fruits were used in the study: grapes or raisins; peaches, plums or apricots; prunes; bananas; cantaloupe; apples or pears; oranges; grapefruit; strawberries; blueberries. Fruit juice included apple; orange; grapefruit and other fruit juices.

Food frequency questionnaires were used every four years to assess participants' habitual diet, asking how often, on average, they consumed each food in a standard portion size. Participants could choose from nine possible responses, ranging from "never, or less than once per month" to "six or more times per day".

The study has found that total whole fruit consumption correlated positively with age, physical activity, multivitamin use, total energy intake and fruit juice consumption. Three servings per week of blueberries; grapes and raisins; apples and pears significantly reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes.

In contrast, greater consumption of fruit juice was associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk. Substitution of whole fruits for fruit juice was associated with a lower risk, except strawberries and cantaloupe melon.

Results showed that 12,198 out of 187,382 participants developed diabetes so the overall risk in the populations studied over many years was 6.5percent. Among those who had three servings per week of individual whole fruits rather than fruit juice the overall risk was itself reduced by 7percent.

(With inputs from ANI)

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