Student blog post: Daily diet of fresh fruit linked to lower diabetes risk-

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http://www.nhs.uk/news/2017/04April/Pages/Daily-diet-of-fresh-fruit-linked-to-lower-diabetes-risk.aspx

The first thing to think about in this article is the sample used to make this claim and the statistics within it. The article claims that ‘A study of half a million people in China found those who ate fruit daily were 12% less likely to get type 2 diabetes than those who never or rarely ate it.’ Whilst that is a huge sample size but does not give us the specific information we require. We are not told what kind of fruit is being eaten or where it has come from in the first place. So the notion that this might work for the rest of the world is not applicable. It is again biased as the research was done by participants filling in details about their lifestyle so is subjective. In addition 6% of the individuals who took part already had diabetes thus completely changes the outcome of the results. Thus This study can’t tell us whether fresh fruit actually protects against diabetes, ‘because it can’t account for all the other health and lifestyle factors involved.’ There are too many differences in lifestyle between other populations that it is not as relevant than the title claims.

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