Antioxidants May be BAD for Diabetics?

Here's a diet-blog post about the effects of antioxidants on diabetics. Turns out it may be a bad thing to take antioxidant vitamins to help your diabetes symptoms!

The effect isn't huge; the best thing to do for diabetes is control your diet and lose weight, the things that have been repeated ad-nauseum for years. I thought it was worth mentioning this because the whole "antioxidant" movement is so popular while not really being supported with proper studies. More often than not any magic-bullet solutions make me pause and think that maybe that bullet is two parts bullet and eight parts manure.

Even the study seems to point to evidence that as a risk to diabetics taking antioxidants isn't exactly going to hurt all that much. It sounds more like it's a slight detriment. Stick to what your doctor advises...lose the weight, cut the smoking, get exercise, and watch what you're eating.