Could Carrots Reduce Risk Of Type-2 Diabetes?
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found that for people harboring a genetic predisposition that is prevalent among Americans, beta carotene, which the body converts to a close cousin of vitamin A, may lower the risk for the most common form of diabetes, while gamma tocopherol, the major form of vitamin E in the American diet, may increase risk for the disease…
January 23, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beta-carotene, body, body-converts, close-cousin, diabetes, disease, lower-the-risk, medicine, most-common, university