Eat healthy fish to beat diabetes

Eating fish may lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes — as long as the fish is not polluted.

about 400 people took part in a ten-year study which looked at their fish consumption and then at exposure to environmental pollutants such as DDt and dioxins — which have been linked to type 2 — and the risk of developing the condition over the study period.

initially, the results appeared to show that fish consumption had no impact. But when the researchers from Chalmers University of technology, in Sweden, tested for pollutants in blood samples from the participants and screened out their impact, they found that consumption of fish coincided with a 25 per cent lower risk of type 2.