Mangoes are the most widely consumed fruit in the world. It has been identified as a particularly useful food when it comes to the fight against diabetes.
Mango have also role to help treatment of metabolic disorder. It is a powerful medicinal food. Actually there are a lot of researches done looking at nutritional value of temperate fruit but not at tropical fruit. Mangoes contain nutrients that can help clear up skin, promote eye health, stave off diabetes and even prevent the formation and spreads of cancer.
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.
Based on data provided by American Diabetes Association (ADA), about 17 million people in the United States have diabetes.
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. A study conducted in 2006 at the University of Queensland, Australia indicates that ripe mangoes contain chemicals that act in manner similar to the drugs used for treating diabetes and cholesterol.
According to the study eating mangoes can decrease inflammation and resulting high cholesterol, as well as block the formation of various health conditions.
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.
Another research presented at a meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, proposed that eating mangoes daily can help moderate and even lower blood sugar levels.
Mango and diabetes
