date:Apr 08, 2013
According to the researchers, 79 million Americans are pre-diabetic, with many of them classed as overweight or obese. This puts them at three times higher risk for developing type-2 diabetes than normal weight people, they added.
A low dose of flaxseed (13 grams per day) for 12 weeks was associated with a significant reduction in insulin resistance, assessed using the homeostasis model (HOMA-IR), in overweight or obese men and postmenopausal women, according to findings published in Nutrition