DIABETES AND GINGER
Ginger, the spice that puts a
kick in your favorite foods, has been a go-to medicine for eons, being used to
treat ailments such as colds, motion sickness, and arthritis pain. Now, it
looks like the spice can lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes,
according to a new study by researchers from Shahid Sadoughi University of
Medical Sciences in Yazd, Iran.
The
research team studied 88 people with type 2 diabetes. The volunteers, all of
whom had been living with diabetes for at least 10 years, were randomly given
either 3 daily one-gram capsules of ginger powder or 3 identical-looking sham
capsules, in addition to their regular diabetes meds. Those who took the ginger
capsules saw a significant decrease in blood sugar after 8 weeks.
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