Approximately 180 million people all over the world have diabetes and scientists found that eating more green leafy vegetables can drastically reduce the risk of having it.

Furthermore, British researchers studied six previous researches on the connections between eating of vegetable and fruits and diabetes and found eating additional servings per day of vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and spinach declined the risk of adults of having type II diabetes by 14 percent.

The findings do not show that the vegetables themselves stop type II diabetes which is frequently connected to lack of exercise and weak diet and is getting the levels of pandemic as the rates of obesity increases.

In addition, people who consume more green leafy vegetables may also have an overall healthy diet, financially stable and do exercise more and one of those aspects can influence how possible they are to acquire diabetes.

However, the researchers from Patrice Carter of the Diabetes Research Unit at Leicester University said that the findings imply that green leafy vegetables are important. The findings were reported in the British Medical Journal.

The research was included over 200,000 individuals whose age range between 30 and 74, in Finland, China and in the United States. Furthermore, Carter told in a telephone interview that vegetables and fruits are all good, but the information extensively prove that green leafy vegetables are specifically appealing, so more research is needed.

Moreover, she also said that green leafy vegetables have omega 3, magnesium and fatty acids known as antioxidants, all of which have been revealed to have a healthful benefits. Every researches that Carter and co-workers examined and followed the groups of adult, documenting how much servings of vegetables and fruits each accomplices ate everyday then analyzing who was detected to have type II diabetes.