In the United States, nearly eighty million individuals have some form of diabetes or pre-diabetes. One in two people with diabetes has no idea that they have the condition. This increases the odds of development of complications which can be dangerous. Leading a healthy lifestyle is one of the appropriate strategies that can be utilized in preventing and treatment of Type 2 diabetes and even more specifically eating a high fiber diet is emerging as a primary strategy a person can use to lower their risks (Tahrani, Bailey, Del Prato, and Barnett, 2011). A high intake of dietary fiber has been emphasized by numerous nutritional and diabetes associations. They recommend that it is useful because of its gel-forming and viscous properties that
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The mechanism is whereby high fiber diet is used to reduce plasma cholesterols in diabetic patients and to significantly improve their blood glucose control. Having a healthy lifestyle is one of the best ways of preventing and also treating Type 2 diabetes. Eating a high-fiber diet has emerged as the principal means of lowering this risk. Eating a high fiber diet is also connected with weight loss and researchers have stated that this reduces the risk of diabetes. Dietary fiber is generally the edible parts in a plant that are usually resistant to absorption or digestion in the small intestine. To gain a better understanding of why dietary fiber is important and how it decreases the risk of diseases, it has been broken into various fractions. They include pectin, resistant starch, bran, inulin, cellulose and arabinoxylan. The studies on these fractions have associated dietary fiber with changes in nutrient absorption, intestinal viscosity, short chain fatty acids production, and rate of passage and hut hormones productions. The effects have been linked to the control of high blood sugar as explained in this paper. Researchers have also accounted for BMI of individuals which return to the normal state and are mainly due to the fiber diet (Edelman, and Henry, 2011). The table below shows glucose objectives for patients with …show more content…
The ideal amount that is required is about 50 grams for every 100 calories an individual consumes. However, most people will consume half of this or even less. Fiber had proved to be effective in controlling high blood sugar. In a recent research by Goldstein and Müller-Wieland (2016), it was found that individuals who consumed more fiber had a lower risk of getting type2 diabetes. This was especially for individuals that had a fiber consumption of more than 26 g per day. People with the lowest intake of less than 19g each day had a higher risk to develop the
The mechanism is whereby high fiber diet is used to reduce plasma cholesterols in diabetic patients and to significantly improve their blood glucose control. Having a healthy lifestyle is one of the best ways of preventing and also treating Type 2 diabetes. Eating a high-fiber diet has emerged as the principal means of lowering this risk. Eating a high fiber diet is also connected with weight loss and researchers have stated that this reduces the risk of diabetes. Dietary fiber is generally the edible parts in a plant that are usually resistant to absorption or digestion in the small intestine. To gain a better understanding of why dietary fiber is important and how it decreases the risk of diseases, it has been broken into various fractions. They include pectin, resistant starch, bran, inulin, cellulose and arabinoxylan. The studies on these fractions have associated dietary fiber with changes in nutrient absorption, intestinal viscosity, short chain fatty acids production, and rate of passage and hut hormones productions. The effects have been linked to the control of high blood sugar as explained in this paper. Researchers have also accounted for BMI of individuals which return to the normal state and are mainly due to the fiber diet (Edelman, and Henry, 2011). The table below shows glucose objectives for patients with …show more content…
The ideal amount that is required is about 50 grams for every 100 calories an individual consumes. However, most people will consume half of this or even less. Fiber had proved to be effective in controlling high blood sugar. In a recent research by Goldstein and Müller-Wieland (2016), it was found that individuals who consumed more fiber had a lower risk of getting type2 diabetes. This was especially for individuals that had a fiber consumption of more than 26 g per day. People with the lowest intake of less than 19g each day had a higher risk to develop the