Common Cooking Spice Found In Curry Shows Promise In Combating Diabetes And Obesity

Science Daily ^ | 6-23-2008 | National Institutes of Health

[reagan_fanatic]

And a haggis-only diet has been found to help people lose weight too.

Sure it does. But who wants to spend every waking moment ralphing?

[TYVets]

ping

[Dumpster Baby]

Ingredients in yellow mustard vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika

I guess it makes hot dogs into health food.

This is the best news I've heard in weeks!

[devere]

“They need to put it in pill form for people who don*t like it, but might benefit from taking it.”

Any vitamin store has it.
I take it several times a week, when I’m not eating curry.

[moondoggie]

Glad to know that!

Thanks for the information.

Curry is one spice I really don't like at all, but I'd take it in pill form.

[moondoggie]

Curried spinach???

No thanks!

I got sick on curried shrimp in the 80's and can't even smell curry without getting sick to my stomach:-(

[TigersEye]

You're paying way too much. This site sells turmeric for $2.95 per pound. Google "turmeric" or "shop turmeric" and you can find a lot of other sources too. I bought very nice quality bulk turmeric from India at an Asian market in Albuquerque. That was Laxmi brand and was $2.50 for 14 oz.'s. The website above sells Gel-Caps and a machine to fill them easily if you have to have capsules.

[blam]

"This site sells turmeric for $2.95 per pound."

Looks good. I tried to order three pounds of tumeric from there and when I got to the end of checkout, I got this message: "The minimum order is $30.00. Please add more items to your cart."

LOL, I don't want ten pounds of tumeric.

[Clemenza]

Ping!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

How does your mother take it?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I have some in pill form.

[TigersEye]

That would be a bit much. They have other good deals on spices though so perhaps you could make the $30 minimum with a few other favorites. It's a lot cheaper than grocery store prices.

Here is a website with a lot of good looking products that I have been wanting to try. They have a spices page but it seems to be down now. I e-mailed them to let them know. Their prices on nuts and dried fruits look very good to me. I'm thinking it is time to stock up before prices get really out of hand.

[blam]

That just reminded me. I have a fifty dollar gift certificate for Mary See's Candy that I got at Christmas.

[TigersEye]

Not the way I recommended to her. lol

She puts a teaspoon in a cup with some almond oil with her vitamins and lets the vitamins dissolve then ... spoons it out I guess. blech! I can't account for her way of doing things but her sense of taste is pretty bad so I suppose it doesn't bother her.

The way I TOLD her to take it is an old Ayurvedic recommendation. One tspn of turmeric, one tspn of almond oil in a cup of warm milk. The Indians use/used ghee (clarified butter) instead of almond oil. It is supposed to take the turmeric deeper into the tissues.

The lumen of the gut does take oils like that directly into the bloodstream. I'm not sure how the milk is supposed to help but it may have to do with the protein in it. Since she doesn't sleep well I tell her the warm milk before bedtime might be helpful for that too.

I like the taste of it that way. I find it to be rich and smooth.

[TigersEye]

Well never mind the turmeric then! You had better use that certificate before it expires. LOL

Just to make it sound good; chocolate has very high levels of anti-oxidants according to recent studies. Particularly dark chocolate but who's splitting hairs anyway? Mustn't deprive chocolate receptors.

[blam]

"Just to make it sound good; chocolate has very high levels of anti-oxidants according to recent studies."

Thanks, I know. I think I posted an article on that one too.

[slowhandluke]

They speculate that curcumin, the anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant ingredient in turmeric, lessens insulin resistance and prevents Type 2 diabetes in these mouse models by dampening the inflammatory response provoked by obesity.

There are two problems with this. First, the genetics of the murine model (mice) just does not match that of the human model. They are both mammals, but a lot of time is wasted testing drugs that work in mice, but not in humans; while things that go the other way (works for humans, not mice) aren't tested, because they don't work on lab animals. So this is not a finding you can use immediately in human health.

Second, suppressing the immune response can hide or delay symptoms of auto-immune disease like diabetes, but it is never a cure. In humans, giving immune system suppressing drugs like prednisone is related to increased rates of diabetes.

[gaijin]

http://www.namasteplaza.net

Also in Belmont, Sunnyvale, Mountain View...many of them. Super cheap!

[TigersEye]

Thanks. Long drive from Colorado though.