High-Fibre Diets: Control Both Diabetes And Heart Disease

A new Canadian study has discovered that beans, peas, pasta, lentils and boiled rice are better for controlling type-2 diabetes and the danger of heart disease risks high-fibre diets such as cereals and whole grain bread.According to the study “Effect of a Low Glycemic Index or a High Cereal Fibre Diet on Type-2 Diabetes: A Randomised Trial” has discovered that these foods are more appropriate at handling glycemic control for type-2 diabetes and risk factors for coronary heart disease than high-fibre diets.
Professor David Jenkins of Toronto-based St. Michael’s Hospital, who led the study, revealed that their research imagines the significance as the incidence of type-2 diabetes is likely to double in the next 20 years.
“Our study points out that a low GI (glycemic index), diet which is a measure for calculating the glucose level of the blood can also reduce the risk factors connected with cardiovascular disease. It does this well than a diet high in fibre, but with a higher GI,” he added.
“Pharmaceuticals used to control type-2 diabetes have not shown the possible advantages in terms of diminishing cardiovascular disease. We expected that the low GI diet may assist all the difficulties of diabetes,” he added.
As part of their study, Jenkins and his team selected 210 patients with type-2 daibetes and divided them into two groups for diet treatment.
They compared the effects of a low GI diet versus a high-fibre diet on glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors for these patients for a period of six months.
After the six-month diet treatment, the researchers discovered that the haemoglobin level (blood glucose level) reduced by -0.50 percent in the group that was served the low glycemic index diet.
In relation to the effects of these two set of diets in heart stroke control, the researchers examined the ratio of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).
They discovered that the ratio indicated a greater fall in the low glycemic index diet group as compared with the high-fibre diet group, revealing the latter group was at higher risk of heart stroke.