The Nurses’ Health Study out of Harvard has produced yet another interesting finding. Female diabetics in the study had a 28% lower risk of all-cause mortality and a 35% lower risk of cardiovascular disease if they ate generous amounts of whole grains, particularly bran. Like many chronic degenerative diseases, diabetes is associated with moderately increased levels of markers for inflammation and endothelial dysfunction. Whole grains reduce these markers, and this is the mechanism suggested for the protective effect.
See Family Practice News (click here), June 1, 2010, p. 18.
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