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There are so many reasons to incorporate blueberries into your diet. Not only they are delicious, but they are also healthy for yourHealth heart and brain. Now a growing research corpus study how blueberries can even help manage yourblood glucose.

After eating a meal or a snack, your digestive system breaks carbohydrates in sugar (glucose) and a hormone called insulin works to regulate glucose in your blood. "Insulin allows glucose to enter cells where it can be used for energy," explains Dr. Deena Adimoolam, MD, an endocrinologist and a member of ourMedical Review Commission.

In a healthy person, blood glucose levels are generally just right after eating. Then, insulin starts working and glucose levels usually go back to normal two hours after mango consumption. Type 2 diabetes occurs when your body can not use insulin properly or can not do enough.

"People with type 2 diabetes are struggling with insulin resistance," says Dr. Adimoolam. "What it means that people with type 2 diabetes make insulin, but their body resists the effects of insulin that leads to high blood glucose."

A new study published in the journalNutrients I noticed that eating blueberries can help your body handle blood glucose in different ways.

In the study, researchers collected participants' blood samples shortly after eating fresh blueberries with a slice ofWhite bread. These participants also eaten 150 grams (5.3 oz) of blueberries a day for six days and their blood samples were taken on the seventh day, just after eating a slice of bread without blueberry. The blood samples of a control group were also taken.

Barely 15 minutes after eating, the participants who ate blueberries with their white bread slice had glucose tips below the control group. This indicates that blueberry consumption can help your body handle glucose levels after eating simple carbohydrates, such asWhite bread. The researchers believe that this could be due to specific processes that occur in your digestive tract after eating blueberries.

They also found that those who had eaten blueberries for six days did not have significant differences in glucose from the control group. However, participants who had eaten blueberries for the previous six days had lower insulin levels two hours after eating the bread as the control group. These results suggest that daily blueberries improve the sensitivity of your body to insulin. The authors of the study suggest that this is because blueberries have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.

It is important to note that the subjects of the study were all sedentary, which means that they exercise little exercise. "Exercise makes your insulin-sensitive muscles resulting in a possible improvement of blood glucose values," says Dr. Adimoolam.

This new search followsa study of last year, which specifically looked at the consumption of blueberries in men withType 2 diabetesAnd found that eating lyophilized blueberries improve health parameters such as the management of their glucose and insulin, blood pressure and even cholesterol.

Blueberries contain polyphenols, which are micronutrients and specific polyphenols called anthocyanins, which are speculated to reduce inflammation. "Some believe that there may be an inflammation component in type 2 diabetes leading to the deterioration of insulin resistance," says Dr. Adimoolam. "Anthocyanins can improve inflammation in type 2 diabetes that could theoretically improve blood glucose values. However, we do not have in-depth data to support this conclusion."

If you have type 2 diabetes, there may be a disadvantage for eating blueberries, however. While anthocyanins can play a role in helping your body to handle blood glucose, "fruits like blueberries are fructuous, which also has the opposite effect and elevate your blood sugar level," explains the Dr. Adimoolam.

"The best treatment for type 2 diabetes in [the majority of cases is lifestyle changes (such as diet, exercise, stress reduction and sleep) and the use of drugs if necessary, "explains Dr. Adimoolam.

For more, be sure to check 4 biggest food studies on diabetes that you should know .