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Sunchoke

Sunchoke


Another food which regulates blood glucose is sunchokes or jerusalem artichokes. These are available May through November, are easy to grow at home even in a sand box. Sunchokes can be eaten raw or baked or roasted or boiled or steamed or wrapped in patapar paper and steamed. They taste like a cross between a potato and an artichoke when roasted. They taste similar to Jicama when eaten raw and boiled and made into a soup they taste similar to turnips. These are also a vegetable that is very good for improving liver functioning, kidney functioning and pancreas functioning. Sunchokes are prebiotics.

Sunchokes

Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 264: F917-F922, 1993; 0363-6127/93 $5.00
AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 5 917-F922, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society
Effects of IGF-I on renal function in patients with chronic renal failure

M. H. O'Shea, S. B. Miller and M. R. Hammerman  
Department of Internal Medicine, George M. O'Brien Kidney and Urological Diseases Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) has been shown to increase glomerular  filtration rate and renal plasma flow in rats and humans with normal renal  function. However, rats with reduced renal function are resistant to these  effects.

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