This fruit is considered a 'miracle drug', helps lower blood sugar, diabetics should eat it to prolong life.

Is it good for diabetics to eat squash?

Green squash, also known as winter melon, is an ideal food for people with diabetes. In Oriental medicine, green squash has a sweet taste, cool properties and is used to clear the lungs and cool the stomach, dissolve phlegm, produce body fluids, promote urination, treat constipation, diabetes, etc.

According to research, squash has a very low glycemic index (GI = 15), has the effect of lowering blood sugar like "natural insulin", helps cool the liver, detoxify the kidneys... so it has the effect of supporting the treatment of diabetes .

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Science has proven that squash has the effect of controlling blood sugar, increasing cell sensitivity to insulin. Therefore, squash has the ability to reduce insulin resistance, most commonly found in obese people.

A study conducted on diabetic rats showed that consuming boiled young squash water for 1 month, combined with water cooked from young squash, was able to stabilize blood sugar. During the first 20 days, the rats' blood sugar levels gradually decreased. By the 30th day, blood sugar levels were close to normal.

In addition, many studies have shown that squash has the ability to increase cell sensitivity to insulin, thereby helping to reduce blood sugar levels, while also reducing fat, which is very good for obese people with diabetes.

How to eat pumpkin properly for diabetics

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- Green squash has many uses for people with diabetes. However, it should only be eaten 2-4 times per week.

- You should not drink squash juice or eat it raw because squash contains high levels of natural soaps. If eaten, it can easily cause stomachaches and negatively affect the digestive system.

- People with diabetes, people with yin excess and yang deficiency, cold body, abdominal pain, cold stomach, prolonged diarrhea, new mothers, children with poor digestive systems should limit eating squash.

To limit the side effects of squash, you can combine squash and fresh ginger to help increase the effects of clearing heat, reducing phlegm, benefiting qi, and strengthening the spleen.

Medicinal dishes from squash for diabetics

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Remedy for edema : Use squash and onion to cook soup with carp and eat daily; or boil 40g squash and 40g red beans, drink daily.

Remedy for urinary incontinence, cloudy urine, and mucus in urine: Boil winter melon peel, take the water and drink.

Diabetes remedy : 20g squash rind, 20g watermelon rind, 20g gypsum (qua lau can). Boil all with one liter of water for 10 minutes, then store in a pot and drink all day. Or use 100g fresh squash with skin and seeds, 50g yam, 50g lotus leaves, boil water and drink all day.

Remedy for diabetes, thirst and restlessness : Use 300g of winter squash flesh (dong qua nhuong) collected in summer - autumn, then dried in the sun or dried in charcoal, crushed. Each time use 1/10 of the water, filter out the residue, drink while still warm.

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