Curry compound may curb diabetes risk

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    Farmboy

    Turmeric has been part of aryuvedic and other types of medicine for a thousand or more years, so it's nice to hear Western medicine is coming on board as well.

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    realmind

    This is NOT TRUE ( I believe) . Indians are eating the curry for 1000s of years. But now India is the NO1 country in the world with number of diabetic patients. And the rate is increasing 10% every year........

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    Equality

    While India may have a large number of diabetics - due to it's extremely large population, it is ranked 81st in the world regarding percentage of population with diabetes. (See http://www.allcountries.org/ranks/diabetesprevalencecountry_ranks.html). Do you have something against India/Indians or are you just trying to disseminate misleading information?

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    edojin

    Safe all around. I love curry, I love eating at Indian/Bangladeshi/Pakistani/Nepalese restaurants here in Japan. So hopefully curry, termeric or whatever else is in there will treat my body nicely ...

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    Jack Stern

    The problem is too much rice with the curry.

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    almxx

    You will notice her advice to keep eating your normal health promoting diet and be careful you don't jump head first into something inexpensive that may improve your health.

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    Farmboy

    Well, here we have it. If you have diabetes, you should eat lots of curry and drink lots of beer, which will help you lose weight.

    http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-07/health/29851082_1_beer-mediterranean-diet-healthy-diet

    Hey, you read your studies and I'll read mine. Mine are better.

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    Cos

    you don't jump head first into something inexpensive that may improve your health.

    Since it's inexpensive and safe what's the problem ? In addition it's tasty to spice up your meals. At worse, that does nothing to your health.

    Do you have something against India/Indians or are you just trying to disseminate misleading information?

    What is misleading ? Indians are facing diabetes epidemic :

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-07/india-s-deadly-diabetes-scourge-cuts-down-millions-rising-to-middle-class.html

    Roughly like here in Japan and most of Asia, they have a DNA predisposition and the urban badly-eating under-active class is growing. So their curry does not vaccinate them. But who knows if that wouldn't be worse without the spices ?

    Turmeric has been part of aryuvedic and other types of medicine for a thousand or more years, so it's nice to hear Western medicine is coming on board as well.

    Curcuma has also been part of Western medicine since Antiquity. Well, I prefer buying it at the wholesale spice store, or even the fancy grocery rather than paying it at the rate of gold in some prescription curcumin capsules.

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    Pukey2

    The problem is too much rice with the curry.

    Or probably too much ghee. I love Indian food, but a lot of it is swimming in oil or loaded with cream. Plenty of fried stuff and very sweet desserts in Indian cuisine too. Nice but naughty.

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    Equality

    Interesting article, Cos. As mentioned in my earlier post, I wasn't refuting the fact that India has a large number of diabetics, what I was pointing out was that with a population of 1.2 billion people, this is not surprising. That being said, even if every Indian ate a large amount of curcumin/turmeric, with India's low per capita diabetes ranking, suggesting that this substance is ineffective against (pre)diabetes does not seem scientifically supported.

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