Mango: The New Diabetes & Cancer Buster > >Do you believe in this ? The leading guy who did the research is a PhD fella >and not a doctor ! All these while I thought blood sugar will dramatically >increase with consumption of Mangoes....try this and then measure your blood >sugar !Looks like the world is turning upside down now ! > > >Incredible news! > > >Monday, May 20, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer >(NaturalNews) The most popular fresh fruit in the world, mangoes are a whole >lot more than just a delicious, refreshing treat produced by nature. As >evidenced by copious scientific research, mangoes are also a powerful >medicinal food, as they contain nutrients that can help clear up skin, promote >eye health, stave off diabetes, and even prevent the formation and spread of >cancer. > > > > >Research recently presented at a meeting of the Federation of American >Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), for instance, revealed that eating >mangoes every day can help moderate and even lower blood sugar levels, despite >their natural sugar content. This is good news for people with type 2 diabetes >who may benefit from consuming mangoes regularly as part of a low-sugar diet. > > >For their study, researchers tested the effects of mangoes on a group of obese >animals, some of whom were given 10 grams of freeze-dried mango every day for >12 weeks. At the end of three months, the blood sugar levels of those animals >that consumed mango were compared to those that did not consume mango. Based >on the data, mango consumption was found to result in a significant decline in >blood sugar levels. > >"Although the mechanism by which mango exerts its effects warrants further >investigation, we do know that mangoes contain a complex mixture of >polyphenolic compounds," says Dr. Edralin Lucas, Ph.D., author of the study. > >Similar research out of Australia found back in 2006 that eating mango can >also help decrease inflammation and resulting high cholesterol, as well as >block the formation of various health conditions included under the banner of >metabolic syndrome. In essence, mangoes actually work better than cholesterol drugs at naturally balancing and optimizing cellular function throughout the body. > > > >"We don't know yet how the whole thing's going to play out but we know some of >the individual components (of mango) activate these receptors and even inhibit >them," said a doctor from University of Queensland about the effects of mango >consumption on cellular processes. "That could end up with positive >nutritional health benefits for diabetes and high cholesterol." > >And again in 2011, researchers from Oklahoma State University found that mango >consumption helps lower insulin resistance and improve glucose tolerance in >test mice. The same study also found that mangoes help normalize lipid levels >throughout the blood, which in turn can help prevent the development of >cardiovascular disease. > >Eating mangoes can also help you avoid cancer >But the health benefits of mango do not stop here. Science has identified more >than 4,000 different antioxidant polyphenols in the plant kingdom, and many of >these polyphenols are present in mangoes. The primary benefit of these >polyphenols is that they scavenge damaging free radicals and protect cells >against damage, which is believed to facilitate and even promote cancer. > > >"If you look at [mango] from the physiological and nutritional standpoint, >taking everything together, it would be a high-ranking superfood," says Dr. >Susanne Talcott, who together with her husband discovered back in 2010 that >mango compounds target both colon and breast cancer cells. > >"What we found is that not all cell lines are sensitive to the same extent to >an anticancer agent. But the breast and colon cancer lines underwent >apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Additionally, we found that when we >tested normal colon cells side by side with the colon cancer cells, that the >mango polyphenolics did not harm the normal cells." > >In other words, mango compounds effectively target and eliminate harmful >cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone, a phenomenon that is unique to >nature and nowhere to be found in pharmaceutical-based medicine. Chemotherapy >and radiation, for instance, which are the two most popular conventional treatments for cancer, damage healthy cells along with malignant cells, which is why the treatments are a failure as far as long-term survival is concerned. > > > >Sources for this article include: >http://www.emaxhealth.com/1275/why-you-need-more-mango >http://www.diabetes.co.uk/ >http://agnews.tamu.edu/showstory.php?id=1686
