Food variety, dietary diversity, and type 2 diabetes in a multi-center cross-sectional study among Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots in Ghana: the RODAM study.
Ina DanquahCecilia GalbeteKarlijn MeeksMary NicolaouKerstin Klipstein-GrobuschJuliet AddoAma de-Graft AikinsStephen K AmoahPeter Agyei-BaffourDaniel BoatengGeorge Bedu-AddoJoachim SprangerLiam SmeethEllis Owusu-DaboCharles AgyemangFrank P MockenhauptErik BeuneMatthias B SchulzePublished in: European journal of nutrition (2017)
In this Ghanaian population, between-food group variety may exert beneficial effects on glucose metabolism and partially explains the inverse association of the "rice, pasta, meat and fish" DP with T2D.