Carrots Can Reduce the Risks of Diabetes

Posted on October 21, 2009 in Diabetic Diet

The production of free radicals in the body is a normal process in human body. But for diabetics presence of these substances mean other implications. Research studies have found that the free radicals not only cause diabetes but also place roadblocks in the long term treatment of the ailment. This article tries to gain further insight.

What are Free Radicals: The air we breathe is a mixture of many useful and harmful gases. It is the job of the organ lung to separate oxygen from the other toxins. During this process, the oxygen gas interacts with the chemicals of the body and produce some substances harmful to the body. These harmful substances are the free radicals. But components called anti-oxidants present in our body fight with these free radicals and immune the body from their harmful effects.

Relation between the Free Radicals and Diabetes:

• Free radicals produce white cells.
• These white cells play a role in the killing of beta cells.
• The beta cells are present in the organ pancreas and produce the essential insulin hormone to regulate the blood sugar.
• When the presence of free radicals is beyond the control of the anti-oxidants, such a condition is called Oxidative Stress.
• Research now reports that Oxidative stress develops both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

How Carrot can Curb the Threat from Free radicals:

• The orange color of the vegetable carrot is because of the component Carotenoids present in it.
• This component is a powerful anti-oxidant.
• Research on carrots and their role on diabetes was done at the University of Minnesota School of public health.
• 4,500 people with high levels of Carotenoids in blood were studied for 15 years.
• It was found that the risk of diabetes in these people reduced to half bt the end of the study.

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