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Nov 22-23, 2018 | Paris, France

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Nutrition and Health

International Conference on

Diabetes and Endocrinology

Journal of Insights in Nutrition and Metabolism | Volume 2

Nutritional intervention and therapeutic effects of chlorophyll intake in diabetes mellitus, hypertension,

hypercholestrolemia and obesity

Alka Pareek

Seth RL Saharia Government PG College, India

ife style diseases are a major cause of severe morbidity

and mortality today and are posing a challenge to the

healthcare professionals in both developing and developed

nations. A prospective study was conducted over a period of

six months on 50 volunteers suffering from diabetes mellitus

type-2, insulin dependent diabetes, hypercholestrolemia,

obesity and sustained hypertension and 50 healthy individuals

as controls. The results have revealed a significant reduction

in blood glucose, blood cholesterol, blood pressure and body

weight with twice daily intake of green smoothie on an empty

stomach followed by a protein rich breakfast comprising of

sprouted pulses. In addition, a vegan diet has been found to be

effective in lowering the biochemical parameters in all these

volunteers. Interestingly, a sizeable number of sufferes even

gave up insulin andwere put on oral medicines. Green Smoothy

is a blended drink consisting of leafy greens and water where

blending is done a bit too vigourously so as to break the leaf’s

cell wall to bring out the chlorophyll. Data were collected at

baseline and post-intervention and included anthropometric

and physiologic measures along with a nutrition survey. Waist

circumference and waist-to-hip ratio was specifically studied

in obese volunteers. Thus, results of the present study amply

provide an interim support indicating consumption of green

smoothie as a possible primary prevention strategy for chronic

conditions as listed vide supra. This home-made smoothy

formulation coupled with a discontinued use of tea, coffee,

milk and milk products has shown to help reduce the health

risks or even reverse the effects of chronic conditions. The

author proposes a more elaborate study on a larger sample

spread over at least a couple of years to demonstrate and

establish a significant correlation between green smothie

and its ameliorating effects in these chronic conditions.