INS and Insulin resistance: A recent review of vegetables containing phytochemicals with potential anti-obesity properties specifically identifies common vegetables as sources of known agents that may have contributed to these effects.18 Although this was not a particularly high-risk sample, the participants were tending to insulin resistance, yet they showed significant reductions in waist circumference (Table 2), fasting insulin and triglyceride levels and increases in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (Table 3).