This is according to a study conducted by Technion researchers and the Rambam Medical Center. The date joins the list of fruits that protect against atherosclerosis
Eating dates in the amount of one hundred grams a day does not cause an increase in blood sugar levels and may improve the quality of cholesterol in the blood. This is what the researchers of the Technion and the Rambam Medical Center found in a study they did and which is about to be published in the journal JAFC.
Professor Michael Aviram from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion and the Rambam Medical Center has been researching the health value of fruits and vegetables for many years. In view of the fact that not only the level, but also the quality of cholesterol in the blood - determines the degree of risk for cardiovascular diseases (heart attack, stroke), a research effort was made to locate fruits and vegetables that contain particularly active antioxidants, which may improve the quality of cholesterol in the blood, on by inhibiting its oxidation.
"The oxidation of cholesterol is of central importance in its deposition in the artery wall and possible blockage of the blood supply to the heart and brain, a phenomenon that causes a heart attack or stroke," explains Professor Aviram. In his scientific publications, he was the first to show that the most effective fruits are the pomegranate, red wine (vine) and olive oil, this - after studying the effect of dozens of fruits and vegetables on delaying the development of cardiovascular diseases.
"Now it's the date's turn to be investigated," says Professor Aviram. "The concern arose that since it is a 'sugar bomb', a diet rich in dates could lead to an increase in blood sugar levels. In a study conducted on healthy subjects, it was found that eating one hundred grams of dates per day for about a month did not cause an increase in blood sugar levels. Not only that, but the levels of fats (triglycerides) in the blood decreased significantly, as well as the degree of oxidation of the fats in the blood."
In this study, the Halawi and Medjul varieties were investigated and it was found that the Halawi variety has slightly superior health properties to those of the Medjul. In this way, the date joins the list of fruits that protect against atherosclerosis.
And another new and interesting antioxidant. Recently, the research of Dr. Hamotal Borochov-Nauri and her group from the Southern Arava R&D, in collaboration with Professor Aviram's research group, was published, which showed for the first time that drinking the juice of the South African fruit - marula (one hundred ml per day for three weeks) has beneficial effects both on the quantity and quality of cholesterol in the blood.
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Interestingly, all the fruits are of the seven species
Hi Yossi. championship. I learned now I know the role of the lipids in the blood. sounds logical. They are not just there. A few decades ago, anyone who complained of a sore throat. Butchered him. Today they have a role.
Please do not publish the last name
Only Ilana without Aurichman please
Ilana
I have diabetes #2 that was discovered after taking steroids in large quantities.
The real indication regarding eating different types of food and their effect on the sugar level is completely individual. I tested several different foods, different types of food and each time the result pretty much repeated itself. On the other hand, my friend had different results and a different sugar level for the same foods.
In short, it's really individual, except for very certain foods that are clearly high in sugar for everyone, such as foods with flours and sugars.
I eat a 16-ingredient smoothie every morning that I got from my naturopath. Among them are different types of fruit: apple, pear,
and frozen fruit-
Strawberries, black and red blueberries, cherries, raspberries, pineapple, mango, cherry, cranberries and gouge berries soaked in water
With ground almonds, chia and ground flax to which she adds different greens.
Grind all this well in a blender until it has a texture like cream (no chunks at all) and drink with a straw so that the teeth don't turn black (a tip I got from the naturopath)
Another naturopath said that I have to check my sugar two hours after eating the shake because it surely spikes my sugar level. I checked several times and wonder and wonder - the sugar level did not rise too much and did not exceed the normal limit.
Some say that eating fruit in cattle does not raise the sugar. For me it really proves itself.
And some claim that even during the day. (A clinical dietitian told me to eat only one fruit a day.)
In short it is really personal as written above
Everyone should check how it works for them because it is usually individual.
I ate a dried date and the sugar rises strongly, be careful
I eat 4 dates every day and my cholesterol is excellent. And I am 71 years old
I paid for some PR nonsense from the Weizmann Institute called day two.
They "tested the DNA of the intestinal bacteria" and gave me nutritional recommendations.
Indeed, one of the recommendations was dates for dessert. My sugar after this date was 190 for 8 hours.
And no, it wasn't because of the meal itself which was low in carbs.
I know there may be diabetics for whom it doesn't raise blood sugar, but I bothered to pay for an expensive examination of my intestines.
Diabetics should test themselves with every type of food and believe only the real results and not university surveys.
Dates are a disaster for diabetes
I ate one date and my sugar jumped to 200
The glycemic index is 103!!!
I eat dates every day. The strength of the year. I like dry dates. My favorite date (say)
I have diabetes and I can also eat dates up to 100 grams per day without fear.
What does the research mean for juvenile diabetes patients?
How can you say that eating a date does not raise blood sugar? Maybe not for the long term, but definitely raises the blood sugar level to a high level at a high speed for at least the next two hours from the moment of eating it. It is one of the foods with the highest glycemic index value.
kid:
It is not clear that there is anything similar here.
Your entire judgment of the study based on the handful of data you received about it is irresponsible - especially in light of the fact that the newspaper's editors must have sent it for peer review and came to a different conclusion than yours.
What I understand from what is written (and it is not written explicitly so I am not really sure) is that it is about 100 percent and not about 64 percent or something like that.
This is about a situation where we are not talking about sick people or people who expected a certain result, therefore the placebo effect (which is the main flaw pointed out by Roy in the honey case) is not relevant at all.
A control group is also not necessary here because the control group is exactly the same people before they started feeding them with dates.
It is quite possible that the mountain will give birth to a mouse and more massive experiments will disprove the conclusion.
As Roy pointed out in the article about the honey, one of the reasons behind the publication of "small" studies is the desire to motivate the conduct of "large" studies that will test their conclusions.
After all, without this research no one would have thought to take a thousand people now and conduct an experiment with them for an entire year.
In this case Roy summed up his opinion very nicely on a similar subject,
I only have to refer to his article:
https://www.hayadan.org.il/honey-against-cancer-09094/
Capricorn and Sima:
It turns out that the JAFC editors think differently than you.
I agree with Sima.
A test that was conducted only on 10 subjects, and without incorporating hidden multiplication tests,
Sounds more like a good headline for a newspaper,
And not like serious research.
I did not understand from the English summary that the date "joins the list of fruits that protect against atherosclerosis".
Indeed, based on 10 healthy subjects, it is really unscientific to write this.
By the way, I have a feeling that even if you test 10 healthy people who eat 100 grams of chocolate every day, for only a month, or even ice cream, or any other junk food, they will find the same findings...
Sign:
Also in the above article it is written that the test was conducted on healthy people.
Their number was not mentioned, but the result obtained in all ten people who participated in the experiment is quite convincing.
I do not share your feeling that the Hebrew wording is more bombastic than the wording you quoted
I found the abstract of the article that is about to be published in the journal J Agric Food Chem.
And his conclusions, which concern only healthy people, and were tested on only 10 people, are
It is concluded that date consumption (and mainly the Hallawi variety) by healthy subjects, despite their high sugar content, demonstrates beneficial effects on serum triacylglycerol and oxidative stress and does not worsen serum glucose and lipid/lipoprotein patterns, and thus can be considered an antiatherogenic nutrient.
The wording is much less promising than the bombastic wording of the above article... Please take the recommendations in proportion!
Sign:
http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jafcau?cookieSet=1
I searched in PUBMED for the journal in which the JAFC article is going to be published, and I did not get any results.
Is there a mistake, or does it have another name?
Sorry for the primitive pettiness, but the research reminds me of an old concept called "the seven species".
Interesting research, I would love to read more details. But when I told my partner about the study, she said that if she ate 100 grams of dates a day, she wouldn't have room for sweets, so it doesn't surprise her that it improves cholesterol.
Is there a preference/difference between fresh dates and dried dates?
Joseph,
Vegetarians and vegans can have the opposite situation of cholesterol deficiency, how do they deal with it?
Hi Ruhama,
There is confusion in the public about cholesterol, so let's sort it out. There is really only one substance called cholesterol. Cholesterol is a type of fat that our tissues need. Because fat does not dissolve in water and therefore cholesterol cannot move freely in the blood system. To solve the problem there is a protein that binds to cholesterol and transports it to its destination. The protein compound with cholesterol is called lipoprotein. Lipoproteins appear in the blood in two forms. LDL, whose role is to transport cholesterol to the tissues, is mistakenly called the bad cholesterol; HDL, which removes cholesterol from blood vessel walls, is mistakenly called the good cholesterol. Our body needs both HDL and LDL. When we talk about high-quality cholesterol, we actually mean that it creates a desirable ratio between the amount of LDL and HDL in the body.
There is a simple way to create quality cholesterol in every healthy person - veganism. Eating animal food (meat, eggs, milk, fish) disrupts the normal balance between the two lipoproteins. All vegetarians (including humans) who are fed a plant-based diet develop cholesterol and lipoproteins in their bodies in a normal ratio. Vegans do not need to waste time and money on finding foods with "miracle properties" that will repair the damage caused to the body as a result of consuming animal food.
I know high cholesterol and low cholesterol. What exactly does it mean to "improve the quality of cholesterol in the blood"?