{"id":1200,"date":"2011-05-30T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2014-09-27T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:59:22","slug":"tiny-tangerines-fight-obesity-diabetes-and-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Tangerines Fight Obesity, Diabetes and Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/nutrition-in-national\/margie-king\">Margie King<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/nutrition-in-national\/margie-king\">Nutrition Examiner<\/a><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><br class=\"spacer_\" \/>You might think that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nutrition-and-you.com\/tangerines.html\">tangerines<\/a> are just a great treat but new research shows that they also have potent health effects.\u00a0 Researchers from The University of Western Ontario have discovered that a substance in tangerines not only helps to prevent obesity, but also protects against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/nutrition-in-philadelphia\/ditch-the-low-fat-dairy-to-significantly-reduce-diabetes-risk\">type 2 diabetes<\/a>, and even atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of most heart attacks and strokes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the research published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.diabetesjournals.org\/\"><em>Diabetes<\/em><\/a>, the secret ingredient is a flavonoid known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-are-some-different-types-of-citrus-fruits.htm\">nobiletin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1223\" title=\"tangerines - MP900384777[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tangerines-MP9003847771-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tangerines-MP9003847771-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tangerines-MP9003847771-1024x962.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tangerines-MP9003847771.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To study the effects of nobiletin on metabolic syndrome in humans, researchers fed mice a &#8220;western&#8221; diet high in fats and simple sugars. One group of the mice became obese and showed all the signs associated with metabolic syndrome: elevated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/nutrition-in-philadelphia\/seven-tips-for-healthy-eating-to-lower-cholesterol\">cholesterol<\/a> and triglycerides, high blood levels of insulin and glucose, and a fatty liver. These metabolic abnormalities greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/nutrition-in-national\/tiny-tangerines-fight-obesity-diabetes-and-heart-disease\">Continue reading on Examiner.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Margie King Excerpt from Nutrition ExaminerYou might think that tangerines are just a great treat but new research shows that they also have potent health effects.\u00a0 Researchers from The University of Western Ontario have discovered that a substance in tangerines not only helps to prevent obesity, but also protects against type 2 diabetes, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[261,262,260,136],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ftc-censorship","category-vitamins-and-drugs","tag-cholesterol","tag-nobiletin","tag-tangerines","tag-type-2-diabetes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}