Saturday, January 1, 2011

GOING GREEN TO PREVENT DIABETES

According to the August 19, 2010 issue of the British Medical Journal, people who eat an average of about l.5 daily servings of green leafy vegetables daily have a 14 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes compared with those who consume less than half a serving of those vegetables per day.

It would seem that while we are protecting ourselves from the possibility of incurring diabetes, going green helps heart problems according to a review in the September 2010 issue of Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, these benefits incurred add to the protection of the heart and mind, that feeds these major organs that keeps the body’s pump working for the needed breath of life. Mother Nature seems to be giving us frequent hints lately to take care of purifying the very air we breathe.

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