Healthy plant-based diet may improve organ function and metabolic state and help prevent diabetes
UK: A healthy plant-based diet may protect against type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) via lower body fatness, normoglycaemia, lower basal inflammation and improved liver and kidney function, a recent study published in Diabetes & Metabolism has stated.
According to the analyses by the research team, a healthy plant-based diet with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and wholemeal products reduces the risk of diabetes by 24 per cent, even in the presence of a genetic predisposition and other diabetes risk factors such as obesity, advanced age or a lack of physical activity. Unhealthy plant-based diets with a high proportion of sweets, refined grains and sugary drinks, on the other hand, are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
At least 75 per cent of type 2 diabetes cases could be avoided by adopting a healthy lifestyle. A plant-based diet has been shown to play a key role in this. With limitations - as demonstrated in a study led by Tilman Kühn from MedUni Vienna's Center for Public Health: A more plant-based diet only develops its protective effects if not only the consumption of animal-based foods but also industrially processed and highly sugary foods is reduced. For the first time, the scientists identified improvements in metabolism and liver and kidney function as reasons for the positive effects of a healthy plant-based diet, in addition to the associated lower likelihood of obesity.
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