Posts Tagged ‘Blood Glucose’
Importance of Legumes in the Diet
Legumes are rich in complex carbohydrates slowly bringing blood glucose, maintaining these levels stable, and provide satiety to the body and not feeling hungry. We can say that do not contain fat and should only be part of a healthy diet for all that are recommended for diabetics, children, students and persons who perform physical exercise.
Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas and peas are rich in B vitamins that help maintain the nervous system in good condition, lentils, for example, contains folic acid that the body converts folic acid and prevent the symptoms of depression. On the other hand, alfalfa and beans are rich in vitamin C and help to neutralize free radicals, the beans being the major contribution of vitamin A as beta carotene important to the skin and eyes.
Featured is the contribution of minerals such as iron (soy beans), calcium (soy), phosphorus (beans, lentils and beans), magnesium (peas and lentils) also help prevent cardiovascular disease.
Aronia to Prevent Diabetes
There is an indicator that their presence might be for a possible diabetes. This is an abnormal level of blood sugar but not enough to diagnose diabetes in the patient, is a harbinger of it. Just medical tests indicate that it is necessary to take the initiative and prevent diabetes.
For this there are several paths to take, and if you prefer to move in the field of natural medicine the results of new research with animals will interest you.
We refer to the aronia, a genus of plants that give a fruit of exquisite taste and high antioxidant content, which was used in laboratory rats to test their preventive effects of diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »
Beans used to control for Diabetes (part IV)
“Another interesting fact that we obtained during our work is about a marker that is used to assess cardiovascular damage and is known as C-reactive protein. In this regard, we identified that the consumption of beans significantly reduces the substance, which in turn means that consumption could be lower cardiovascular risk, “she said. Read the rest of this entry »
Beans used to control for Diabetes (part III)
The researcher explained that to study the beneficial properties of beans and corn have made use of an animal model.
“We apply a model in which rats were induced diabetes and incorporated into your diet and whether cooked beans corn tortilla, which is how humans consume regularly. It is important to note that the diet has been calculated that the animals consumed similar percentages to the intake of the Mexican population. “ Read the rest of this entry »