Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

I don’t know if there are fewer incidence of Type-II Diabetes in Assam and Meghalaya, two states in India where chewing betel nut, called Tamul in the local parlance, or commonly known as Paan, is a favorite addiction, if this study by Gideon Philip of the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Medicine is true.

Preliminary research by Gideon Philip of the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Medicine and Health Science has found chewing betelnut controlled the incidence of type-2 diabetes.

Betelnut, or areca nut, contains arecholine and affects the brain’s nicotine and caffeine receptor.

Benaras, also made famous, by Amitabh Bachchan with his song “Khaike Paan Banaras walla”, from the film don, should also have less Diabetic people. But then there are many sections of India are are addicted to chewing paan. And then again, India has one of the largest incidence of Diabetes in the world.