We know the benefits of high fibre diet for treating cancers as colonic and rectal cancers but this fibre diet as consumed more in India will treat type 2 diabetes is very useful in the indian setup where diabetes is increasing day by day in large numbers. A diet rich in fruit and vegetables can help treat type 2 diabetes – and it seems to do this by changing the bacteria that live in a person’s gut. A researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and his colleagues compaired the effects of two different diets in people with type 2 diabetes. Over 12 weeks, 16 people followed a standard low-fat, low-carb diet, while 27 people ate a lot of high-fibre foods, such as whole grains, seeds and vegetables.
Both groups also took a drug called acarbose, which makes people digest starch more slowly than usual. This allows starch to reach the large intestine, where microbes feed upon it. By…
