Dark chocolate lovers, good news! This delicacy, already well known for several health benefits, offers new interest. In fact, eating 100g per week would reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Suffice it to say that during this holiday season, we are not going to deprive ourselves! And it's not us who say it, but the researchers, in their study published in the journal British Medical Journal.
Diabetes, a disease linked to excess sugar in the blood
The diabetes is a chronic disease. It is characterized in particular by an excess of sugar in the blood, what is called hyperglycemia. Currently, there are two types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
In both cases, sugar is to blame. More particularly, its poor absorption by the body. Sugar then accumulates in the blood, which causes many health problems.
If sugar is so poorly absorbed in diabetics, it is because of a problem with a particular hormone: insulin.
This hormone is secreted by specific cells of the pancreas: the β cells of the islets of Langerhans. A non-diabetic person produces insulin en permanence,…Read more on Science and Life
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