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Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Mushrooms ‘could be used to treat diabetes'
Eating mushrooms could help people manage Type 2 diabetes, a study has suggested. Researchers at Semmelweis University in Budapest found that edible fungi were rich in chemicals that helped improve sensitivity to insulin, a key problem for diabetics. 'Our study reveals the remarkable potential of natural compounds in mushrooms to address key metabolic pathways,' said Dr Zsuzsanna Németh. Type 2 diabetes affects around 5.8 million people in the UK and is commonly caused by being overweight and eating an unhealthy diet. The condition can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, vision loss and amputations. A healthy body produces the hormone insulin in the pancreas in response to eating, using it to turn the sugars in food into energy. However, in some people, cells develop resistance to the hormone and stop responding correctly. This is called insulin resistance and leads to elevated levels of sugar in the bloodstream, because it has not been converted. Dr Németh said: 'As interest grows in non-pharmacological approaches to disease prevention, this opens up exciting possibilities for using edible medicinal mushrooms as complementary agents in diabetes management.' Previous studies have shown fungi to contain medically important components such as polysaccharides, terpenoids, phenols, and heterocyclic amines. Mushroom extracts 'have anti-diabetic, anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, cardioprotective, anti-osteoporotic, and anti-tumour effects', the Semmelweis team wrote in their study. They found that polysaccharides – different types of sugar – in the white button mushroom can boost good gut bacteria in the human body. Sugars in the lion's mane mushroom are an antioxidant, while the shiitake mushroom has chemicals linked to reducing blood glucose levels and anti-inflammatory effects. The researchers wrote: 'Edible mushrooms, including medical mushrooms, are an important part of nutrition. They are a good source of fibre, vitamins, amino acids, and trace elements, but the most investigated are the water-soluble composites: polysaccharides. 'Polysaccharides have complex effects on the human body. They favourably modulate the intestinal microbiota, glucose, and lipid homeostasis, as well as the immune system, the combined effect of which can reduce insulin resistance. 'These effects make mushrooms, especially medicinal mushrooms, a potential part of complementary therapy for obesity and related diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes.' The research was published by the international Journal of Molecular Sciences. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
25-02-2025
- Health
- Telegraph
Mushrooms ‘could be used to treat diabetes'
Eating mushrooms could help people manage Type 2 diabetes, a study has suggested. Researchers at Semmelweis University in Budapest found that edible fungi were rich in chemicals that helped improve sensitivity to insulin, a key problem for diabetics. 'Our study reveals the remarkable potential of natural compounds in mushrooms to address key metabolic pathways,' said Dr Zsuzsanna Németh. Type 2 diabetes affects around 5.8 million people in the UK and is commonly caused by being overweight and eating an unhealthy diet. The condition can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, vision loss and amputations. A healthy body produces the hormone insulin in the pancreas in response to eating, using it to turn the sugars in food into energy. However, in some people, cells develop resistance to the hormone and stop responding correctly. This is called insulin resistance and leads to elevated levels of sugar in the bloodstream, because it has not been converted. Dr Németh said: 'As interest grows in non-pharmacological approaches to disease prevention, this opens up exciting possibilities for using edible medicinal mushrooms as complementary agents in diabetes management.' Previous studies have shown fungi to contain medically important components such as polysaccharides, terpenoids, phenols, and heterocyclic amines. Mushroom extracts 'have anti-diabetic, anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, cardioprotective, anti-osteoporotic, and anti-tumour effects', the Semmelweis team wrote in their study. They found that polysaccharides – different types of sugar – in the white button mushroom can boost good gut bacteria in the human body. Sugars in the lion's mane mushroom are an antioxidant, while the shiitake mushroom has chemicals linked to reducing blood glucose levels and anti-inflammatory effects. The researchers wrote: 'Edible mushrooms, including medical mushrooms, are an important part of nutrition. They are a good source of fibre, vitamins, amino acids, and trace elements, but the most investigated are the water-soluble composites: polysaccharides. 'Polysaccharides have complex effects on the human body. They favourably modulate the intestinal microbiota, glucose, and lipid homeostasis, as well as the immune system, the combined effect of which can reduce insulin resistance. 'These effects make mushrooms, especially medicinal mushrooms, a potential part of complementary therapy for obesity and related diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes.'
Budapest Times
06-02-2025
- Business
- Budapest Times
Németh: Hungary's energy prices are cheapest in Europe
Szilárd Németh said household gas and electricity prices were "significantly" lower than those in other countries in the region. Szilárd Németh, the government commissioner for maintaining the system of regulated utility prices, said household energy prices in Hungary are the cheapest in Europe. Citing a price comparison report compiled by the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH), Németh said household gas and electricity prices were 'significantly' lower than those in other countries in the region, while the difference was even bigger in comparison with other European Union member states. Household gas prices in Prague are four times that in Hungary, they are close to quadruple in Warsaw and two and half times more in Bratislava and Bucharest. In Stockholm, residents pay 13 times more for their gas than in Hungary. Household electricity prices in Czechia are four times those in Hungary, they are two and half times more in Poland, double in Slovakia and close to double in Romania. In Germany, household electricity prices are four and a half times higher than in Hungary. Németh said Hungary's energy supply was secure as well as cheap, pointing to gas reserves containing enough to meet household demand for 155 winter days. Around HUF 800bn has been earmarked in the 2025 budget for supporting the regulated household utilities price scheme, he added.
Budapest Times
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Németh: Georgia election was in line with democratic norms
Zsolt Németh said PACE ratified the Georgian delegation's credentials with 113 votes in favor, 13 against and 7 abstentions. Zsolt Németh, Head of the Hungarian parliament's foreign affairs committee, said on Wednesday that last October's parliamentary election in Georgia was in line with democratic norms, adding that the European Conservatives, Patriots and Affiliates group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) considered it important to approve the CoE mandate of the new Georgian parliament. Németh, who addressed the winter session of PACE as the head of the ECPA group in Strasbourg, told MTI by phone that the assembly had questioned the ratification of the credentials of the new Georgian parliament's CoE delegation. 'We, the European Conservatives, Patriots and Affiliates group, strongly support granting the Georgian parliamentary delegation its mandate without restrictions because we believe that the Georgian elections were in line with the expected democratic norms,' Németh said. He said the group was concerned over the escalation of the violence seen in Georgia and the domestic political crisis that has engulfed the country since the elections. Németh added that after Azerbaijan's announcement last February that it could withdraw from the CoE over what it saw as 'hostile behavior' on the part of the Strasbourg-based organization, the Council now risked losing another Caucasus country. 'It's important to maintain dialogue and the most appropriate way to do that is to ensure the full participation of Georgia's MPs in the Council of Europe,' he said. Németh said the PACE ratified the Georgian delegation's credentials with 113 votes in favor, 13 against and 7 abstentions with the restriction that Georgian MPs will not be given seats on certain committees, will not be allowed to take part in election observer missions, will not be given rapporteur roles or be allowed to represent the assembly. He added that though the ECPA group had considered it important to reach a compromise on approving the delegation's credentials, it had not voted in favour of it due to the restrictions attached to it.
Budapest Times
29-01-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Németh: Chances of peace have grown with inauguration of new US administration
Zsolt Németh welcomed the "flexible stance" of the Ukrainian leadership and expressed hope that President Vladimir Putin would take the same approach. Zsolt Németh, Head of the Hungarian parliament's foreign affairs committee, said the chances of lasting peace in the world have grown with the inauguration of the new US administration. Speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday, Németh told the assembly that a ceasefire and peace talks in Ukraine were 'within reach' thanks to the Trump administration. Németh welcomed the 'flexible stance' of the Ukrainian leadership and expressed hope that President Vladimir Putin would take the same approach. Németh told MTI by phone that Tuesday's debate on the 'new world order and a report on the need to renew the rules-based international order' offered a chance to review changes brought about by the Trump administration. 'The new interpretation of domestic security and migration in the US is especially important for the Council of Europe, a humanitarian organisation. This could have a serious effect on migration, which is an important factor for the CoE,' Németh said. The Trump administration's conservative values in gender and family policy, and its 'classic, conservative interpretation of human rights', had serious backing in Europe, he said. National sovereignty and the representation of national interests were expected to grow in value in such an environment, he said.
