The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Consumption Pattern of Five Under-Exploited Greens and the Therapeutic Uses of "Tree Lettuce" on Selected Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetics and Hypertensives


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1 Dept. of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641043, India
     

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Dietary management in the recent years for many diseases particularly diabetes and cardiovascular disease emphiasises on fibre apart from other nutrients. Speaking of fibre one cannot overlook green leafy vegetables as high fibre foods but they are neglected because of widespread awareness of their merits, and of some exaggerated anxieties about their defects.
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  • Consumption Pattern of Five Under-Exploited Greens and the Therapeutic Uses of "Tree Lettuce" on Selected Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetics and Hypertensives

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P. Parvathi Easwaran
Dept. of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641043, India
N. Kalpana
Dept. of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641043, India
S. Uma Mageswari
Dept. of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641043, India

Abstract


Dietary management in the recent years for many diseases particularly diabetes and cardiovascular disease emphiasises on fibre apart from other nutrients. Speaking of fibre one cannot overlook green leafy vegetables as high fibre foods but they are neglected because of widespread awareness of their merits, and of some exaggerated anxieties about their defects.