Green Veggies Cut Diabetes Risk

By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: August 19, 2010 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Increasing the daily intake of green leafy vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, a British meta-analysis found. Consuming 1.35 servings of these vegetables per day was associated with a 14% reduction in risk compared with consuming only 0.2 servings (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.96, P=0.01), according to Patrice Carter, a PhD student at the University of Leicester, and colleagues. A trend also was seen suggesting a benefit for consuming greater quantities of fruits and vegetables overall, although this was not statistically significant, the researchers reported online in BMJ.