High Fiber Cereal Helps Women Fight Off Diabetes
Eating breakfast is a healthy habit, but the choice of what you eat for breakfast may may be just as important to preventing diseases like diabetes. Two separate studies indicate that high fiber cereals appear to have a strong protective effect against type 2 diabetes in women.
This finding is especially important for minority women--particularly black women who have more than double the risk for developing type 2 diabetes compared to white women in the US.
A recent study from Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University followed 40,000 African American women over eight years and looked at their dietary habits while noting the development of type 2 diabetes within the group. The researchers found that the more high fiber cereals consumed, the lower the risk for diabetes in the women.
“Increasing cereal fiber in the diet may be an effective means of reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease that has reached epidemic proportions in black women,” concludes Dr. Supriya Krishman, lead author on the study published in the November 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
