Ancestral diets and modern diseases

Sudano, Maurizio; Gregorio, F. Di

doi:10.3233/s12349-011-0067-6

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“…In the course of evolution however, high-quality diet became the prerequisite for developing large brain of modern human, the Homo sapiens . [ 8 ] In fact, on the metabolic ground, human brain is a very expensive organ and requires high-quality nutrients in order to function, survive, and sustain. Therefore, the shift toward agriculture from hunter-gatherer lifestyle of primitive human might have been one of the reasons to select and cultivate carbohydrate-rich cereal grains (rice, potatoes, barley, maize, millet, etc).…”

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“…Selection of staple crops in the beginning of agriculture era was dependent on vegetations growing around the habitat of human living and varied according to the climatic conditions and soils. [ 8 ] It was later influenced by diverse ethnobotanical and cultural practices. [ 10 ] In the course of time, populations got adapted to such food items which became part of their traditional and cultural practices.…”

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Revisiting "Vegetables" to combat modern epidemic of imbalanced glucose homeostasis

Tiwari

2014

Phcog Mag

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Vegetables have been part of human food since prehistoric times and are considered nutritionally necessary and good for health. Vegetables are rich natural resource of biological antioxidants and possess capabilities of maintaining glucose homeostasis. When taken before starch-rich diet, juice also of vegetables such as ridge gourd, bottle gourd, ash gourd, chayote and juice of leaves of vegetables such as radish, Indian Dill, ajwain, tropical green amaranth, and bladder dock are reported to arrest significantly the rise in postprandial blood glucose level. Juice of vegetables such as ash gourd, squash gourd, and tropical green amaranth leaves are observed to tone-down sweet-beverages such as sucrose, fructose, and glucose-induced postprandial glycemic excursion. On the other hand, juice of egg-plant and juice of leaves of Ceylon spinach, Joyweed, and palak are reported to augment starch-induced postprandial glycemic excursion; and juice of leaves of Ceylon spinach, Joyweed, and radish supplement to the glucose-induced postprandial glycemia. Vegetables possess multifaceted antihyperglycemic activities such as inhibition of pancreatic α-amylase and intestinal α-glucosidase, inhibition of protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1β in liver and skeletal muscles, and insulin mimetic and secretagogue activities. Furthermore, they are also reported to influence polyol pathway in favor of reducing development of oxidative stress, and consequently the development of diabetic complications. In the wake of emergence of modern maladaptive diet-induced hyperglycemic epidemic therefore, vegetables may offer cost-effective dietary regimen to control diet-induced glycemic over load and future development of diabetes mellitus. However, for vegetables have been reported to do both, mitigate as well as supplement to the diet-induced postprandial glycemic load, care is required in selection of vegetables when considered as medicament.

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confidence: 99%