Kedelai Baik Dikonsumsi Untuk Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Melitus (NIDDM)

Dua hal utama komplikasi yang terjadi pada pada penderita diabetes adalah penyakit jantung dan fungsi ginjal.
Menyertakan Kedelai dalam diet protein penderita diabetes tipe II (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus – NIDDM) dapat mengurangi resiko komplikasi penyakit jantung serta memperbaiki fungsi ginjal. ^1,2

Referensi :

1. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2003) 57, 1292–1294. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601688 “Beneficiary effect of dietary soy protein on lowering plasma levels of lipid and improving kidney function in type II diabetes with nephropathy” L Azadbakht1, R Shakerhosseini (1Department of Human Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Tehran, I.R. Iran), S Atabak (Imam Hossein Hospital, Tehran, Iran ), M Jamshidian (Department of Human Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Tehran, I.R. Iran), Y Mehrabi (Department of Health Community Medicine, Shaheed Beheshti University of Med. Sciences, Tehran, Iran) and A Esmaill-Zadeh (Department of Human Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Tehran, I.R. Iran)
2. Isolated soy protein shown to benefit type 2 diabetics, study indicates, Jim Barlow, Life Sciences Editor