Grapefruit may help ward off diabetes symptoms

A team of researchers have discovered that naringenin in grapefruit can possibly help ward of diabetes symptoms and lower blood sugar levels.
A team of researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Massachusetts General hospital, naringenin, which is in grapefruit and other citrus fruit can help treat type two diabetes.
"It is a fascinating find," says Yaakov Nahmias, PhD, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the paper's senior author. "We show the mechanism by which naringenin increases two important pharmaceutical targets, PPARα and PPARγ, while blocking a third, LXRα. The results are similar to those induced by long periods of fasting."