Crazy research, and crazy doesn't mean bad, is always coming out of the University of Michigan. And here's one more. Grapes. Who knew that eating grapes would lower the risk of heart disease and diabetes? UM did. And now you do, too.
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Could eating grapes slow what's for many Americans
a downhill sequence of high blood pressure and insulin resistance
leading to heart disease and type 2 diabetes?
Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System are teasing out
clues to the effect of grapes in reducing risk factors related to
cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. The effect is thought to
be due to phytochemicals -- naturally occurring antioxidants – that
grapes contain.
Findings from a new animal study will be presented today at the
Experimental Biology convention in Anaheim, Calif., and show encouraging
results of a grape-enriched diet preventing risk factors for metabolic
syndrome, a condition affecting an estimated 50 million Americans and is
often a precursor to type 2 diabetes.
Researchers studied the effect of regular table grapes (a blend of
green, red and black grapes) that were mixed into a powdered form and
integrated into the diets of laboratory rats as part of a high-fat,
American style diet. All of the rats used were from a research breed
that is prone to being overweight.
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