Diabetic elderly should eat more mulberries

　　A trial result shows that mulberry active drink can play a good auxiliary therapeutic role in patients with diabetes and metabolic syndrome. President of Beijing Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Association, Beijing Union Medical College Hospital Professor Xiang Hongding, a well-known diabetes expert, said that this was a very unexpected test result. If there is a kind of life-oriented healthy Drinks can be easily applied to diabetic patients or people with high risk of diabetes, and their significance and contribution are unprecedented.

　　this time clinical In the trial, the research team randomly selected 30 patients with type 2 diabetes and took a fruit drink made from scientifically formulated active ingredients extracted from black mulberries, mulberry leaves, and mulberry branches to test the effects on blood sugar, blood lipids, blood viscosity, and body fat ratio. The test results showed that after taking the drug, the patient's fasting blood sugar and blood viscosity were significantly reduced, especially the reduction in blood viscosity, which was highly statistically significant. At the same time, the patient's body fat ratio and body mass index were significantly reduced. In addition, it also had a significant laxative effect and was helpful for sleep.

　　Professor Xiang Hongding pointed out that blood viscosity is particularly closely related to the complications of diabetes. High blood viscosity will cause blockage, and blockage of blood vessels will cause systemic complications. Blockage Eye It causes fundus bleeding, cerebral blood vessel blockage causes cerebral infarction, cardiovascular blockage causes myocardial infarction, kidney blockage causes poor kidney function, and lower limb blood vessel blockage causes limb necrosis or even amputation. Therefore, the problem of high blood viscosity in diabetes is very prominent.

　Both traditional medicine and modern medicine regard mulberry as a good product for disease prevention and health care. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that mulberry, also known as longevity fruit, is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It has the effects of producing fluid and quenching thirst, nourishing yin and blood, nourishing the liver and kidneys, strengthening essence and replenishing fetus, blackening hair and ears, improving eyesight, delaying aging, calming the mind and nourishing the heart, moisturizing and laxative, improving walking, quelling wind deficiency, clearing deficiency fire, benefiting joints, removing rheumatism, and relieving alcoholism. There is also a description in "New Materia Medica" that "eating mulberry alone can relieve thirst". In 1993, the National Ministry of Health listed mulberries as one of the agricultural products that are “both food and medicine”. Mulberries are very nutritious, rich in protein, a variety of essential amino acids, fructose and Grape sugar.