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Dietary Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes: How Millet Comes to Help

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Title Dietary Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes: How Millet Comes to Help
 
Creator Kam, Jason
 
Contributor Puranik, Swati
Yadav, Rama
Manwaring, Hanna Rose
Pierre, Sandra
Srivastava, Rakesh
Yadav, Rattan
 
Subject millet
nutritional characteristics
crop
 
Description Diabetes has become a highly problematic and increasingly prevalent disease worldwide.
It has contributed toward 1.5 million deaths in 2012. Management techniques for
diabetes prevention in high-risk as well as in affected individuals, beside medication,
are mainly through changes in lifestyle and dietary regulation. Particularly, diet can
have a great influence on life quality for those that suffer from, as well as those at
risk of, diabetes. As such, considerations on nutritional aspects are required to be
made to include in dietary intervention. This review aims to give an overview on the
general consensus of current dietary and nutritional recommendation for diabetics.
In light of such recommendation, the use of plant breeding, conventional as well as
more recently developed molecular marker-based breeding and biofortification, are
discussed in designing crops with desired characteristics. While there are various
recommendations available, dietary choices are restricted by availability due to geo-,
political-, or economical- considerations. This particularly holds true for countries such
as India, where 65 million people (up from 50 million in 2010) are currently diabetic and
their numbers are rising at an alarming rate. Millets are one of the most abundant crops
grown in India as well as in Africa, providing a staple food source for many poorest of the
poor communities in these countries. The potentials of millets as a dietary component
to combat the increasing prevalence of global diabetes are highlighted in this review
 
Date 2016-09-27
2017-03-22T02:15:46Z
2017-03-22T02:15:46Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9713
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/UQ6kI2HA
Jason Kam, Swati Puranik, Rama Yadav, Hanna Rose Manwaring, Sandra Pierre, Rakesh Srivastava, Rattan Yadav. (27/9/2016). Dietary Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes: How Millet Comes to Help. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7 (1454), pp. 1-14.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/6524
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Frontiers Media
 
Source Frontiers in Plant Science;7,(2016) Pagination 1,14