S. B. Chadha ¹, S. Chaturvedi ¹, I. Katyal ¹, A. Dudha ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Dietetics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029, IN

Abstract

It is well known that in treatment of diabetes mellitus diet therapy plays an important role. In recent years several studies indicate that fibre has a significant influence on the postprandial blood glucose levels, A decrease in serum glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL cholesterol and an increase in HDL cholesterol was observed in subjects eating a high fibre (40g/day) diet.

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