The fight against type 2 diabetes could soon obtain better results thanks to an innovative diet rich in fibers investigated by scientists from the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai in China and the Rutgers University in the United States.
This type of diabetes, one of the most common disabling diseases, develops when the pancreas produces too little insulin (a hormone that helps glucose to enter the cells to be used as energy) or the body does not use insulin well.
In the intestine, many bacteria break down carbohydrates, such as dietary fibers, and produce short -chain fatty acids that nourish cells that cover it, reduce inflammation and help control appetite.The lack of short chain fatty acids has been associated with type 2 diabetes and other diseases.Many clinical studies have also shown that increasing the consumption of dietary fiber could mitigate the effects of this type of diabetes, but the effectiveness of this strategy may vary due to a lack of knowledge of the mechanisms involved.
The Liping Zhao team randomly distributed in two groups to patients with type 2 diabetes. A group followed a diet based on dietary recommendations and standard education for patients.The other group received a lot of many types of dietary fibers while following a similar diet in terms of main energy and nutrients.Both groups took the career drug to help control blood glucose.
A fiber -rich class of diets promotes the growth of bacteria of the intestine producers of short chain fatty acids.After 12 weeks, patients who followed the high diet in fibers enjoyed a greater reduction in the quarterly average blood glucose levels.His fasting blood glucose levels also dropped faster and lost more weight.
The research results indicate that eating more dietary fibers of the adequate type could reject the intestinal microbiota (the bacteria ecosystem in the gastrointestinal tract) promoting a greater presence of bacteria that help digest food and that are beneficial to human health ingeneral.The appropriate fibers in the diet promote the proliferation of certain bacteria of the intestine that benefit the control of blood glucose.In short, the discovered offers a new nutritional strategy to prevent and manage type 2 diabetes.
