Is Ginger Beneficial in a Diabetic Diet?
Ground ginger and ginger tea is put to the test for blood sugar control.
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What else can ginger do? See more videos at https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/ginger. And for an overview of diabetes: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabetes. -NF Team
is this study funded ???
I don’t have diabetes but have Ginger regularly because it also helps with your digestive system. I have it in curries or in my turmeric latte’s.
Classic dr. Greger! I love it! 😉
This man is awesome! I love his videos! ?
Ginger is supposed to be good for the liver’s handling of sugar thanks to the potassium.
Ginger in our smoothie everyday…✅…love it…
@Michael Rodriguez What about gastritis ?
ginger + turmeric 🙂
Peperine. Black peppers for absorption
Yeah, yeah, just an other Excellent report by the NutritionFacts.org group headed by Dr. Greger!! Beautiful & Magnificat!! 🙂 🙂
Wow! I do love me some ginger! ?
good stuff !! my girl loves when I juice pineapple ……she loves my man juice / 2 for 1 spread the love !!
Saw this and showed my dad. Thank you.
Same
Great news for us ginger lovers!
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This channel is unbeatable, I will show this to my mom. Thanks a lot man!
This is the best youtube chain for me! Scientific based explanation, concise “palabra”, very intelligible. Merci beaucoup.
Tastes great, too!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING
I love ginger!
My foreign mom always tries to sneak in a lot of ginger into food even when I don’t want it ?
Laughing. Yes, they bought the media and advertising campaigns and learned all the wrong things, but I still remember 2 generations who grew up doing it closer to the Blue Zones. The generation after that watched too much television and learned it all wrong, but then again, so did the schools and restaurant owners and food network.
Mothers sometimes really do know best.
Can you do a video on effects of nutrition on pyelonephritis?
I’m adding ginger to my green smoothie
I’m allergic to ginger, but I loved* it so much 🙁
Love me some lemon and ginger shots yum yum ?
O that sounds yum .. What’s that lol ..
Can ginger help, in any way, with the virus pandemic?? Specifically for the lungs.