Panacea Journal of Health Science

Volume 1, paper 4
ISSN : 2278- 4330

Three day dietary recall was used to assess the average nutrient intake and those subjects,
who had the habit of consuming green leafy vegetables alone were included for the study.

Test of significance
Table 3 elucidates the mean values of fasting , post prandial and HBA1C values of the
subjects on the 0th day of the supplementation. The values show that the subjects had similar
blood glucose levels indicating that they were homogenous. The ‘t ‘values did not show any
significance

TABLE 3 SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS OF BLOOD PARAMETERS ASSESSED ON THE

0TH DAY

LEVELS CONTROL EXP I CONTROL EXP II EXP I EXP II

FASTING 126.33± 126.83± 126.33± 124.67± 126.83± 124.67±
13.648 10.759 13.648 14.306 10.759 14.306

‘t’ values 0.070 NS 0.206NS 0.296 NS

POST 223.17± 209.83± 223.17± 219.67± 209.83± 219.67±
PRANDIAL 35.290 51.720 35.290 36.958 51.720 36.958

0.522NS 0.168NS 0.379NS

HBA1C 7.767± 7.917± 7.767± 7.317± 7.917± 7.317±
0.516 0.682 0.516 0.760 0.682 0.760

‘t’ VALUES 0.429NS 1.206NS 1.439NS

FIGURE 1 shows the mean levels of fasting and Post prandial blood glucose levels on the
th
30 day of supplementation. All the groups did not differ significantly indicating the fact that the
supplement did not have effect with in such a short time period The mean values of post prandial
blood glucose ,showed significant reduction and the ‘t’ values were 3.196 which was significant
at 1% level. The control and experimental group II showed a ‘t value to be 2.913 which was
significant at 5% level. There was no significant difference between the experimental groups.
However there was significant reduction in the postprandial blood sugar level on comparing with
the control groups .A study on the anti-diabetic property of 25g of fenugreek leaves on insulin
dependent diabetics showed that the half life of plasma glucose shortened due to the increased
metabolic clearance and erythrocyte insulin receptors activation.(Sahay et.al.,1994). (Fig 2)