Oranges and Other Cirtus Fruits Can Help You Reverse Diabetes

Many type 2 diabetics have higher than normal insulin levels which causes a build up of fat deposits in the liver. This is an extremely serious problem and one which must be addressed if you are to reverse your diabetes and keep it from coming back.

It turns out that sweet citrus fruit like oranges and tangerines can help a lot in eliminating those fats from your liver. This is because of an antioxidant contained in most citrus fruit called nobiletin. Tangerines contain the most nobiletin of all the citirus fruits, more so than oranges in fact, but any sweet tasting citrus fruit like tangelos and satsumas should provide nobiletin in high enough qualities to help. However, sour citrus fruits like lemon and grapefruit do not contain nobiletin. Keep in mind though, lemons are also very beneficial to diabetics in other ways.

We are getting into the season when it gets progressively more difficult to find fresh fruit at the grocery store. In a few months we'll be in the winter season when it's quite difficult to find melons and berries, especially if you try to buy local foods. The fresh figs that should definitely be part of a diabetic diet will be gone too. There will be less varieties of apples available too. However, the one class of fruit that always seems to be in the supermarkets even in the dead of winter are the citrus fruits which should make getting nobiletin easy any time of the year. Please keep in mind I am talking about eating these citrus fruits in moderation, something like a single tangerine a day.

One important point about orange juice and other citrus juice. The nobiletin is found in the membranes of the citrus fruit and in the peel, not in the juice. So, in order to get the nobiletin, you need to eat the fruit, not just drink the juice. Keep in mind too that while most people just throw away the peel, you can slice it and put it in stir fries for a delicious flavor (I really like it with chicken), throw it in salads to add zest (pun intended), and of course you can brew it up as a tea which I'm a big fan of. However, if you are going to use the peel and you are not buying organic (you should!!), be sure to wash the peel extremely well before you eat it.

This is just one food that is especially good for diabetics in helping reverse the ill effects of diabetes and also help cure the disease itself. If you have diabetes, the most important thing you can do in your life is obtaining the right information you need to reversing diabetes using all natural means. You will find the information you need at this link. I highly recommend it and it is basically the same method I used to reverse my diabetes.