Posts Tagged ‘Diabetes’

Diabetes High and Rising

One of the worst public health prophecies seem to be more than met in Argentina. As in the rest of the region, diabetes is increasing, and its prevalence in urban areas of the country and more than 50% world average: 6.2% compared with 4%, as revealed Carmela study.

If everything continues as before, will comply with the provisions of the World Health Organization (WHO), which forecast an increase of diabetes of 75% for 2030, said Dr. Herman Schargrodsky, director of the study, which evaluated the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Latin American cities.

“If so, by 2030 we expect 11% of diabetes in the urban population of Argentina, which will lead to increased cardiovascular disease, especially coronary disease,” he added Schargrodsky, Cardiology Service, Hospital Italian. Read the rest of this entry »

Black Tea against Diabetes

The most widely consumed beverage worldwide after water is tea. In this case we again mention this drink black tea specifically, to highlight its benefits for diabetes, which have been highlighted by a Chinese lab that examined their levels of polysaccharides.

Black Tea

Polysaccharides are a type of carbohydrate that delay the absorption of glucose by the body and which are present in various types of tea. However, researchers in China Tianjin Key Laboratory have compared the levels of polysaccharides in oolong tea, green tea and black tea, the latter finding higher levels of polysaccharides.

This implies that black tea infusion is very important to prevent diabetes, but that’s not all. Black tea polysaccharides also have a destructive effect of free radicals, implying a preventive action against cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.

These benefits of black tea, published in the Journal of Food Science in addition to its antioxidant properties that strengthen the immune system and their actions against hypertension.

Benefits Rosella Flowers

I’ve read from the newspaper about rosella fruit, rosella fruit. At first I was not sure about the fruit rosella so many benefits, knowing I have never seen let alone form rosella fruit trees. After I finished reading the paper I tried to find information on Rosella. One time I met with a friend who went to boarding one of the State University of Makassar city.

The information I get is almost the same as I have ever read in the daily newspaper. You may ask why I was so curiosity with fruit, my reason is simple because at that time I suffered from a chronic ulcer disease. After my rosella juice consumed with God’s permission I suffered the disease gradually recovered, and finally to this point I recovered from my ulcer disease.

You may also ask what’s so special Rosella Fruit, so I’ll bring some benefit from the fruits Rosella.

Red rosella fruit can cure some diseases, among others: Read the rest of this entry »