Can Eating Grapes Stop Metabolic Syndrome ?

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I myself love eating grapes but somebody I know who has diabetes told me that you shouldn’t eat a lot of them because of the high sugar content and the way it may affect you if you are diabetic.

But now some research has come to light, which make the above irrelevant, especially as regards diabetes. Scientists in Michigan have been looking at this in greater detail to find out whether there is anything in eating grapes

And the effect it has on your body as regards metabolic syndrome, which in itself encompasses quite a few things such as heart disease, diabetes, etc. The train of thought is the amount of phytochemicals the grapes contain which in turn ward off the above-mentioned diseases.

These phytochemicals act as antioxidants within the body which prevent cell ageing and death. Here is what the researchers did, they used three different types of grapes in their research to see what effect it would have, for this particular research test animals were used in order to record their findings.

They used black red and green grapes and combined this into what would be classed as aAmerican high fat diet and fed it to a particular breed of rats, which were known to be obese already.

They made quite a few comparisons between the two groups which were fed the grape powder and another group control group whom had no grape powder within their diet. So in order to balance their diets, they added extra sugar etc so it would be a fairer comparison, this is due to the grapes and their sugar content. After a period of three months went by, the researchers looked at their results yet again.

The group that had the grape enriched powder within their diet had the following, lower blood pressure better heart functioning and a lesser chance of inflammation within their hearts. They also had lower triglycerides and their glucose tolerance was a lot better in comparison to their counterparts.

The researchers, however, do point out that this isn’t the be all and end all after all it was done on rats rather than humans but nonetheless, even so a very interesting piece of research, I think you will find. A lot of us I tend to eat some fruit but probably not enough of the right ones in variation which gives us overall health benefits.

Source http://www.sciencedaily.com

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