Where bitter melon shows the strongest promise is in diabetes management. It contains several bioactive compounds —charantin (a plant steroid), polypeptide-p (a plant-derived insulin-like protein) and ...

Bitter melon peptides significantly reduce blood sugar levels in patients who had previously failed to respond to their medications, a study has found. Researchers at a university hospital in Taiwan ...

According to the recent Indian medical research findings, India is becoming the diabetes capital of the world, as it has crossed over 101 million cases and counting. The high rate of this chronic ...

Cynthia Sass is a nutritionist and registered dietitian with master's degrees in both nutrition science and public health. Frequently seen on national TV, she's Health's contributing nutrition editor ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Substances isolated from bitter melon, a plant eaten and used medicinally in much of Asia, could provide the basis of new drugs for treating diabetes and obesity, an ...

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Asian American chefs are embracing the medicinal gourd anew. By Cathy Erway On broad banana leaves, dishes of sweet soy dipping sauce, a creamy pork liver sauce, a bubbling pinakbet, some sticky rice ...

Herbs like ashwagandha and turmeric are now widely recognised as part of the global wellness lexicon. But ayurveda, India’s traditional system of medicine with a history spanning more than 3,000 years ...