Can 　　 Pumpkin lower blood sugar? This is no longer a new problem. On May 13, 2004, the "Health Times" published an article by the newspaper reporter-"Pumpkin hypoglycemic Mongolian people for more than ten years". This article conducted a lot of investigations and interviewed many authoritative experts in endocrinology and traditional Chinese medicine. It is found that the statement of "pumpkin hypoglycemic" has no basis at all. Pumpkin will raise blood sugar instead of hypoglycemic.

　　 The so-called "pumpkin hypoglycemic" is just a "legend" from Japan. It is said that in the early 1980s, as many as 5% of diabetes patients in Hokkaido, Japan, but there was no one with diabetes in Yuzhang Village, Hokkaido. This report has aroused great interest in the medical community in Japan. After a thorough investigation and research by a medical expert in Japan, it was found that this phenomenon is related to the consumption of tender pumpkins by local residents. The pumpkin was identified as "nude pumpkin". As a result, a "pumpkin fever" emerged in Japan. Many merchants in China have also used this legend as a "basis" to develop many products, such as pumpkin powder, pumpkin hypoglycemic tea, pumpkin biscuits and other health foods, to satisfy diabetic patients keen on diet. These various products are hyped for such a "legend" that cannot be verified and do not know the authenticity, plus the pumpkin itself is nutritious, and it is one of the most traditional vegetable varieties in the Chinese, so "pumpkin hypoglycemic" has become convincing Common sense of life!

　　Bonbo listened to a director of the endocrinology department on a public occasion last year, "ordinary pumpkins do not reduce sugar, Japanese naked pumpkin can reduce sugar". Another director of the endocrinology department who knew me on the spot told me in private "Is the moon all foreign circles?". During the participation in the National Academic Conference of the Chinese Society of Nutrition in Beijing at the end of October this year, Professor Yang Xiaoguang, a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, director of the Key Laboratory of Micronutrient Nutrition of the Ministry of Health, and the deputy chairman of the Chinese Society of Nutrition answered When asking questions, he said that he had investigated the "nude pumpkin" in Japan, and there was no such thing. Japanese colleagues didn''t know that, nor did they know that pumpkin can lower blood sugar.

　　Pumpkin has good nutritional value, but its sugar content is not low. Never eat more pumpkins to lower blood sugar and treat diabetes. Diabetics can eat pumpkins, but don’t eat more because of untruthful rumors, as it will backfire and worsen the condition. It is unfounded to say that pumpkin can lower blood sugar, and it is not credible. The practice of "would rather be credible than unbelievable" is unscientific.

　　 In fact, real hypoglycemic foods, that is, foods that do not increase blood sugar after eating, do not exist at all. Only hypoglycemic drugs can achieve this effect. The usual so-called "hypoglycemic foods", such as konjac and agaric, will also increase blood sugar after eating, but the increase is slightly smaller than other foods-from this, if you eat a lot, no matter what food , Blood sugar will be significantly higher. There will be no food with lower blood sugar.