| No food is a magic wand for curing your type 2 | | | | good for you anyway. Onions, parsley, tea, cherries, |
| diabetes... but with the help of a healthy eating plan | | | | cherries, blueberries, blackberries, olive oil, and grapes, |
| which includes fresh fruit and vegetables, nutritional | | | | are also good sources for quercetin. |
| supplements and an increase in physical activity, you | | | | Citrus fruits especially grapefruit, are high in the |
| can actually reverse type 2. | | | | flavenoid glycoside, naringin, a compound studied by |
| In a study reported in Science News in April of 2009, | | | | Canadian scientists. They gave mice a western style |
| researchers at the University of Michigan fed rats | | | | diet calculated to give them the metabolic syndrome. |
| bred for a tendency to obesity, crushed blueberry | | | | Experimental mice were given naringin while control |
| powder and compared them to rats not receiving | | | | mice were not. The mice without naringin developed |
| this powder. After 90 days the rats eating the | | | | high cholesterol and insulin resistance. The mice fed |
| blueberry powder had: | | | | the naringin did not experience high cholesterol and |
| - less belly fat | | | | their sensitivity to insulin remained normal. Citrus fruits |
| - lower triglycerides | | | | are high in vitamin C and contain fiber, which alone |
| - lower cholesterol, | | | | would be a good reason to eat them. Time will tell |
| - lower blood sugar fasting levels, and | | | | whether they have the added bonus of helping to |
| - better insulin sensitivitythan the rats not fed the | | | | prevent and control type 2 diabetes. |
| blueberry powder. | | | | Broccoli is another food that we've always known is |
| Since low insulin sensitivity is the cause of type 2 | | | | good and is said to be useful in type 2 diabetes as |
| diabetes, blueberries may be helpful in preventing and | | | | well. Researchers at the University of Warwick |
| treating the condition. Of course, human beings are | | | | looked at the compound sulforaphane, a compound |
| not rats, and much more research needs to be done | | | | that exhibits antidiabetic properties. Sulforaphane is |
| before what, if any, benefits to diabetics can be | | | | found in all cruciferous vegetables which includes |
| demonstrated, but blueberries are a healthy way to | | | | broccoli. Researchers found it is possible for |
| satisfy sugar cravings, so why not have some? | | | | sulforaphane to counter damage done to your blood |
| Population studies have shown less people develop | | | | vessles by high blood sugar levels. |
| type 2 diabetes when they eat apples on a regular | | | | You've always heard that eating fruits and |
| basis than in those groups who did not. Quercetin, | | | | vegetables was good for you. Modern scientific |
| found in the apple peel, is said to be useful in | | | | research is finding out why they can really help help |
| managing diabetes. This research is all preliminary, but | | | | you to live a health lifestyle even with type 2 |
| apples are a good source of fiber and vitamins and | | | | diabetes. |
| make a good snack with a low glycemic index, so it's | | | | |