If one of your New Year’s resolutions is healthy eating, here’s a suggestion. A University of South Carolina study has found that a well-known eating plan that emphasizes vegetables, fruits and lowfat dairy products may actually prevent type 2 diabetes.

The so-called “DASH” diet has been around for years. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. But a USC researcher has found that the diet is not only a long-standing way to avoid or reduce high blood pressure, it helps diabetes as well.

Dr. Angela Liese, a researcher with the Arnold School and the study’s lead author, says the research was conducted in a very straight-forward manner.  “These are all free-living adults who consumed what they consumed,” she says.  “They were not asked to change their diets.  They’re just regular people recruited into the study, who tell us what they ate.  Then we score their diet to see how well it adheres to the DASH diet.”  [Read more...]