Want to cut down your diabetes
risk? Eat 4 eggs a week!
India is the diabetes capital of the world with over 61.3 million
people suffering from this disease. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has
increased with changing lifestyles that lead to obesity and or habits such as
smoking. Cutting down on these habits and following a healthy lifestyle is one
of the ways to control blood sugar levels. While there are various home remedies
that help in controlling diabetes,scientists have now suggested that
eating eggs can help reduce the risk of type-2-diabetes by improving
glucose balance in the body.
How was the study carried out?
The research was conducted at the University of Eastern
Finland. Men aged between 42 and 60 years were. It was observed that egg
consumption was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes as well as with
lower blood glucose levels.
How many eggs should one regularly eat?
According to the study, eating approximately four eggs per
week reduced the risk of diabetes by 37% in men when compared to men who ate
only one egg per week even after some confounding factors such as physical
activity, body mass index, smoking and consumption of fruits and vegetables
that were taken into consideration.
How do eggs protect against diabetes?
According to the researchers, eggs contain many beneficial
nutrients that can have an effect on glucose metabolism and low-grade
inflammation. Eggs thus lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. However, it was
noted that eating more than four eggs in a week did not bring any significant
additional benefits.
The research is published in American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
15.05.2015
Indian-origin
scientist develops a new tool to detect cancer
Most cases of cancer go undetected until the last stage of
the disease due to lack of proper diagnosis during the initial stage.
Although biopsy is the most common diagnostic test to detect cancer, an
Indian-origin scientist, Rohit Bhargava, developed a new tool for better
diagnosis of cancer.
Till date, prepared biopsy samples are
stained and examined under a light microscope. But this technique
uses infrared spectroscopic imaging for microscopy. Instead of using
stains, the new method measures the chemical constitution of cells and tissues
directly. The outcome is that that molecular stains can be reproduced without
staining the tissue but by using the intrinsic molecular contrast of the tissue
and computation. The study relies on computation instead of staining to provide
biopsy images.
Any sample can be stained for desired stains without
material cost, time or effort while leaving precious tissue pristine for
downstream analyses. Another use of the approach can be in the analysis of
small amounts of samples, for example from a thin needle biopsy. ‘The
development of this approach promises to have immediate and long-term impact in
changing pathology to a multiplexed molecular science — in both research and
clinical practice,’ the authors noted.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
15.05.2015
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