Dietary Fiber and Diabetes Mellitus

Prevention of diabetes mellitus includes a variety of measures, including making adjustments to the diet. In the 1970s and 1980s, the greatest attention was paid to the increase in the specific gravity of dietary fiber in the diet, which include polysaccharides (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin substances, gums, mucus) and lignin [17]. It is believed that adding dietary fiber to the diet will prevent high levels of glycemia and insulinemia, thereby protecting the beta cells of the pancreas from overexertion [30]. The main research in this regard was carried out on healthy and diabetic patients; there are publications and experimental works. The purpose of the latter is to create adequate models for studying the protective effect of dietary fiber on hyperglycemia, as well as to elucidate the mechanisms of this action.