Mango is one of the popular fruits in the world due to its attractive color, delicious taste and excellent nutritional properties. Known for its sweet fragrance and flavor, the mango has delighted the senses for more than 4000 years. A celebrated fruit, mango, now produced in most of the tropical parts of the globe.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Mango and diabetic

Mango and diabetic
Recent studies by Australian researchers showed that eating mango can help to fight against diabetic.

Mango have also role to help treatment of metabolic disorder. Actually there are a lot of researches done looking at nutritional value of temperate fruit but not at tropical fruit.

What is diabetes? Diabetes is occurred when the amount of glucose in blood is too high, and the body didn’t use it in as per requirement.

Glucose normally comes from food eaten. Glucose then is converted to the energy as required by the body by chemical name insulin. Insulin produced by pancreas. If not enough insulin produced then diabetes will occur.

Eating mango everyday can help people fighting against high cholesterol as well as diabetes. Research shows that components in mango have a similar function of diabetes and cholesterol drugs.

Research suggests some compounds in mangoes work by activating or inhibiting groups of receptors known as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors.

Mangos too have other chemical compound such as norathyriol, a by-product of mangiferin, and also quercetin. Still under research if the compounds can kill cancerous cell.
Mango and diabetic

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