Diets rich in the plant compounds called flavonols appear to offer protection from type 2 diabetes. This study included nearly 3,000 volunteers from Framingham, Massachusetts. None of these adults had diabetes at the start of the study in 1991. Their dietary intake was recorded every three or four years.
Those people who consumed more flavonol-rich foods in the form of tea, apples, oranges, red wine, blueberries, strawberries and bananas were 26 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to those who consumed flavonol-poor diets.
[Journal of Nutrition, Sept. 2013]
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