Harvard researchers followed 7,822 women with type 2 diabetes in the Nurses' Health Study for up to 26 years. Once other risk factors were counted, only bran intake stayed significantly tied to lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, by up to 28 percent.
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A General Mills survey found 61 percent of Americans believe they eat enough whole grain while only 5 percent actually do. Just 55 percent could identify whole grain products by label, and 28 percent could not tell whole grain from enriched grain.
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Bran Cuts Death Risk in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients
CDC researchers project that nearly a third of Americans could have type 2 diabetes by 2050 without action, against 7.8 percent in 2007. A Harvard study in Circulation found women with the disease who ate more bran died less often from all causes and from cardiovascular disease.
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