Artichoke Leaves Diabetes No Chance: Thistle Qualifies as Anti-Oxidant, Carb Blocker, Digestive Help & Diabesity Drug
Boiled Artichokes slow down the absorption of glucose and minimize the insulin + glucose surges (Nomikos. 2007) This article has made quite a remarkable transformation. It started as a Facebook Short News Item , was upgraded to a mini-article for the SuppVersity Short News and, when I realized that those green thistles have surprisingly diverse beneficial effects on human health, eventually became the regular SuppVersity Article you are about to read, right now. Artichoke leaves the future of diabesity treatment!? I have to admit, I am not exactly and artichole expert, but I was still surprised that the paper Joanna Magielse and her colleagues from the University of Antwerp are about to publish in the scientific journal Food & Function claims to be the first to investigate the beneficial health effects of artichoke leave extracts on diabetes-induced oxidation in vivo . I mean, we all have seen the broad range of artichoke supplements on the shelves; and my brief revie...