CONSUMPTION PATTERN OF BITTER GOURD [Momordica charantia L.) AMONG TYPE II DIABETICS
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2013
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India is considered as the diabetes capital of the world with 41 million Indians having diabetes. Socioeconomic
environment influences occupation, lifestyle, and nutrition of social classes which in turn would influence the
prevalence and profile of glucose intolerance and diabetic complications. Even today, about 80 per cent of the
population in developing countries depends on traditional medicine, Bitter Melon is one of the traditional medicine
which is a good source of phenolic compounds. It is evidenced reported that only 58.7 per cent of the subjects
generally believed that bittergourd is good for health, 27.3 per cent reported bittergourd decreases the sugar level
and a few (5.3 5) members informed that it reduces the stomach infection.