Eating a diet rich in vitamin C may significantly reduce your risk of developing type-2 diabetes by as much as 62 percent.
The findings are based on a new Cambridge study, which also found that an increased consumption of fruits and vegetables helped lower the risk of diabetes by 22 percent.
The research, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, followed 21,831 men and women for 12 years.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Diet Rich in Vitamin C Reduces Diabetes Risk
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Fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C are associated with a reduced risk of death from all causes including heart disease and stroke. Even small increases in levels of vitamin C in the blood reduced the risk of heart disease and death in healthy adults.
It is important to know that the antioxidant vitamin C alone is probably not responsible for the lower risk of disease and death observed in the study. Rather, intake of the vitamin is a marker for an overall healthy lifestyle that includes:
* a nutrient-rich diet
* exercise
* not smoking
The blood levels of vitamin C appear to be a strong and specific indicator of high fruit and vegetable intake, and it may be all the other components of high fruit and vegetable intake that are protective for mortality, not just vitamin C.
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Vitamin c gives a hand in the production of collagen, that type of protein that gives strength to your body bones, muscles, ligaments, cartilages, blood vessels and teeth.
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