Beans used to control for Diabetes (part II)
“The fact that Mexicans have genetic predisposition for diabetes does not necessarily mean we have to develop it,” Rosalia Reynoso Camacho said.
Important measures is the control of certain habits among them the exercise, maintain proper body weight, which goes hand in hand with a balanced diet and supplemented with food components that will provide health benefits, in addition to their properties feeder. In response, he explained, is required to identify and rejoin food diet to improve diabetes control when we suffer, but also to avoid it.
“Thus we find that above the Mexican diet consisted largely beans and corn of various types of pigmentation, same as they were consumed in large quantities in past decades when the chronic degenerative diseases did not mean a big problem for the population .Currently, they have different life styles between highlighting the food, the national diet is more western style and chronic diseases have impacted more strongly to our country, “explained the expert of the UAQ.
Such a correlation, Reynoso said Camacho, are what put us in order to study the properties of prevention and control of certain foods from the traditional Mexican diet and that’s how we identify, in the specific case of diabetes, but the corn mainly beans have properties that control the blood glucose levels and in addition reduce complications such as renal and cardiovascular diseases. These foods cannot be regarded as a medicine, but must be integrated into the daily diet to help control the patient.