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Greater fresh fruit consumption could lower type 2 diabetes rates and diabetes complications

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Greater consumption of fresh fruit is associated with a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes and reduced complications in people with existing type 2 diabetes, research suggests. The study was led by Huaidong Du of the University of Oxford, which found people with type 2 diabetes who ate more fresh fruits had lower rates of microvascular and macrovascular complications. The research team claims this is the first large prospective study demonstrating how fresh fruit consumption is associated with incident diabetes and diabetic complications. Fruit is a very healthy food group, but some fruit such as bananas and oranges contains more carbohydrate than low-carb fruits like berries. Regular consumption of high-carb fruits can consequently raise blood glucose levels, so eating fruits low in sugar improves health benefits. Nearly 500,000 people were recruited from the China Kadoorie Biobank for the study, which took place between June 2004 and July 2008. Follow-up over seven years monitored new cases of type 2 diabetes and the occurrence of vascular disease and death in people with pre-existing type 2 diabetes. Overall, 18.8 per cent of participants reported consuming fresh fruit every day; 6.4 per cent never/rarely did. Those with pre-existing diabetes were around three times more likely to regularly consume fresh fruit. Higher consumption of fresh fruit corresponded to a 0.2 per cent decreased type 2 diabetes risk, and lower risks for mortality and microvascular and macrovascular complications among those with pre-existing type 2 diabetes. Du and colleagues stress that their findings are of value for Asian populations where fresh fruit consumption is commonly restricted among people with diabetes. The researchers admit, though, that it is not clear why fresh fruit was shown to yield these benefits. "The exact mechanisms through which fresh fruit consumption may be protective against the development and deterioration of diabetes are not very well understood," Du said. "Fruit contains sugars (i.e., glucose and fructose), which may have negative impacts on glycemic control. However, the natural sugars in fruit may not be metabolised in the same way as refined sugars." A limitation of this study is that it was observational, and causational effects of fresh fruit cannot be distinguished. Moreover the effects cannot be determined compared to participants' other dietary patterns. The findings appear online in the journal PLOS Medicine.

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Well I always loved fruit and ate loads then I became diabetic. I am not the only one either. I don't think our own newsbot should be churning out this sort of dross. It may be relevant in Asia for the reasons @Contralto mentioned, but any newbie to the forum from a Western population could well be misled in thinking eating a lot of fruit is helpful for diabetics. It isn't. Fructose is bad for diabetics, that's why berries are best because they are low carb @CaptainWard @CaptainEarle @Administrator can we do something about checking the sort of news reports we have on here? Anything posted by the newsbot could be seen as having DCUK official backing and could be perceived as being true when in fact it's just another rehashed story from the popular press who couldn't give a fig about diabetics.
 
Although DCNewsbot posted this, the actual article was broadcast on BBC television and published in the Express.. This story did not get churned out by DCUK, so it has been relayed correctly as far as I can tell. It is up to forum members to raise suitable comments as an open discussion.
Whilst we may disagree with the contents of this article, it is not for us (in UK) to suppress free speech, Like many here we have read the recent research about T2D and fructose, but this info has not yet been coraborated by other researchers, so is single source as far as I can tell.
 

It's by no means DCUK news but rather news in the wider community. Thanks for your feedback - we've passed it onto the editorial team.
 
CaptainWard said:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention @zand.
I will speak to Admin
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I do not object to DCNewsbot doing his job of bringing our attention to news items that we may have missed. What I object to is the way the poster adds in a free plug for the DCUK Low Carb Diet, seemingly as if it formed part of the original article. To me this sneaky editing is what gives 'formal' backing to the LC program.

There should be an obvious break between the reported text with its own source accreditation and then freebie selling messages. Maybe different font or italic could be employed with a site ident to show it is added text. I support the LCHF diet myself, but it is not everybody's cup of chai.
@Administrator this is not the first time I have made this observation. I note that these messages sometimes crop up as FB postings so it is not just this site that is affected. No problem if it is made clear that an edit / commentary has been added
 
Of course I am not against free speech. It's not always done for good though. DUK has the freedom to promote a diet that could cause harm to most diabetics. And it does. That has to be wrong in anyone's book.

DCUK is different and I wouldn't like the forum to be tarred by the same brush that's all. As you say a little distance from the news articles by not putting a link to the low carb program in as if it were part of the article would be great.

My concern was that if someone has already seen the article on BBC or in Daily Express/ Mail they could well come here to check if there's any truth in it. By simply repeating it could seem that DCUK is endorsing it too. That' s all
 
Omg .... only earlier today I read an article regarding pregnant women who ate alot of fruit during pregnancy increase their rate if diabetes by 400%! So much conflicting information. Hard to know what to believe. As always i follow my gut instinct ...it beats reading contradictory articles in the press. If we believed everything we read we wouldn't eat a darned thing.
 
I have found the thrust of the article to be correct for my Type 2, I eat what could be viewed as excessive amounts of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and red / black currents when available, 2 times a day (with nuts and full fat Greek yogurt).

I would recommend that "eating to your meter" if you go down this route, as I think it depends where you are with insulin sensitivity. My HbA1c only went up by 0.1 over a 6 month period when gorging myself berries, so I am happy with the trade off (apart from the bill).
 
It was front headline news on one of the papers the other day
 
I see the news section as simply news related to diabetes, sourced from all over the media

That then gives us the opportunity to discuss the news/study amongst ourselves

Some ideas we might agree with, some not, but I personally appreciate a wide variety of articles without censorship.

@Oldvatr 's idea of separating out the DCUK advice/programs is a good one, as that way it shows that the news/study is separate from DCUK
 
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