Reducing sugar and increasing fibre intake may improve diabetes risk factors in Latino teens

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

Reducing sugar intake by the equivalent of one can of soda per day and increasing fibre intake by the amount equivalent to one half cup of beans per day appears to improve risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes in Latino adolescents, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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