montsezu:thinkmexican:Decolonize Your Diet, Eat Nopales! Nopalitos are a folk remedy for diabete
montsezu: thinkmexican: Decolonize Your Diet, Eat Nopales! Nopalitos are a folk remedy for diabetes and the scientific research backs that up. Eating nopalitos lowers blood sugar in both diabetics and non-diabetics. It also lowers cholesterol and protects the liver from Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which afflicts many diabetics. A lot of the scientific studies done on cactus tend to focus on the fruit, rather than the paddles. Tunas have so many amazing properties: the fruit, its juice, or extract, have been proven effective against many different cancers (skin, prostate, colon, ovarian, and, to a lesser extent, liver and breast). The juice also helps your body recover from damage caused by alcohol. · Eating nopalitos can lower blood sugar in diabetics (Frata-Munari 1989, Hahm 2011) · Eating Nopalitos lower cholesterol and blood glucose levels (Hahm 2011, Wolfram 2002) · Nopalitos are effective in protecting the liver from Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, the most common type of liver disease in the US, and one related to metabolic syndrome (Morán-Rámos 2012) · Daily consumption of nopales improves platelet function (Wolfram 2003) · Both nopalitos and cactus fruit are excellent sources of dietary fiber (Peña-Valdivia 2012). · Cactus fruit are a good source of antioxidants (Kuti 2004) · Animal studies show that a diet including cactus fruit can prevent against skin cancer (Lee 2013) · Cactus fruit can inhibit cancer cell growth (Zou 2005) · In an in-vitro study, the juice from cactus fruit were effective against colon cancer and prostate cancer cells (Chavez-Santescoy 2009) · Cactus fruit extract can be effective against ovarian cancer (Feugang 2010) · Cactus fruit juice was shown to be effective in healing alcohol-induced damage (Alimi 2012) An excerpt from the blog Decolonize Your Diet: Recipes to Sustain Revolutionary Love. See citations and read more here. ahahahhaha y esta en gringoland Eat nopales! -- source link