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Phytolacca americana, also known as American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). [4] It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white ...
Poke salad ('poke salat') is considered part of traditional southern U.S. cuisine, where it is cooked three times in three changes of boiling water to remove some of the harmful components. [13] Toxic constituents which have been identified include the alkaloids phytolaccine and phytolaccotoxin , as well as a glycoprotein .
Veratrum viride, known as Indian poke, corn-lily, Indian hellebore, false hellebore, green false hellebore, [2] or giant false-helleborine, [3] is a species of Veratrum native to eastern and western (but not central) North America. [4] [2] [5] It is extremely toxic, and is considered a pest plant by
The frequent consumption of ultra-processed food may cause additional harm to people with type 2 diabetes, scientists warn in a new study.A growing body of research connects excess consumption of ...
Jackie Topol, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., is a registered dietitian, pre-diabetes expert and culinary nutritionist whose mission is to help people use food-as-medicine to manage and reverse a variety of ...
The number of people living with diabetes worldwide has quadrupled in the past two decades, with 830 million people diagnosed as of 2022. Diabetes directly led to 1.6 million deaths in 2021, with ...
May slow clotting; contraindicated for people with bleeding disorders and before and after surgery. May induce uterine contractions; contraindicated when pregnant or nursing. [21] Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (contained in comfrey, borage, senecio, coltsfoot, and others) Liver damage [5] Reserpine: Rauvolfia serpentina
In addition to helping you feel fuller, soluble fiber may help control blood sugar levels and insulin resistance in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a May 2016 study in Experimental and ...