{"id":42382,"date":"2026-06-28T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/broccoli-the-secret-weapon-against-diabetes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:11:53","slug":"broccoli-the-secret-weapon-against-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/broccoli-the-secret-weapon-against-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Broccoli, the secret weapon against diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19-5.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Broccoli may be the secret to treating diabetes, as a compound in this vegetable helps lower blood sugar levels. A recent study has found that eating or consuming broccoli in liquid form can help prevent and treat type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Lifestyle changes \u2013 particularly keeping obesity under control \u2013 are an important way to keep the disease under control. While in some people, medicines can also cause side effects. Metformin &#8211; a drug widely used for this disease as it lowers blood sugar levels &#8211; cannot be taken by 15% of people with diabetes because of its effects on the kidneys<\/p>\n<p>Professor Anders Rosengren, from the Lund University Diabetes Center in Sweden, says: As sulforaphane has very few side effects and can be easily obtained from broccoli &#8211; for example &#8211; it has the potential to become a complement to current treatments for type 2 diabetes. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Rosengren recommends that people who suffer from diabetes or prediabetes use broccoli as a food to keep the disease under control or prevent its progression.<\/p>\n<p>During the 12-week study, of 97 obese patients, those who took broccoli experienced significant decreases in blood glucose levels in<br \/>\nsober state, compared to those who took medication. In addition to broccoli, sulforaphane is also found in other vegetables of the cabbage family, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broccoli may be the secret to treating diabetes, as a compound in this vegetable helps lower blood sugar levels. A recent study has found that eating or consuming broccoli in liquid form can help prevent and treat type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle changes \u2013 particularly keeping obesity under control \u2013 are an important way to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42384,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382\/revisions\/42384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}