![]()
Orange juice, despite its high caloric load of sugars, appears to be a healthy food for diabetics due to its mother lode of flavonoids, a study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown.
The study appeared in the June 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.
Flavonoids suppress destructive oxygen free radicals -- also known as reactive oxygen species, or ROS. An overabundance of free radicals can
damage all components of the cell, including proteins, fats and DNA,
contributing to ...