Mushrooms may have anti-aging benefits. New research published in the journal Food Chemistry says that certain types of mushrooms have two antioxidants that can prevent aging and improve health. While it’s known that mushrooms have the highest amount of ergothioneine, there wasn’t as much information out there about glutathione, another important antioxidant. Porcini mushrooms were found to have the highest amount of both these two antioxidants after researchers tested 13 different kinds. They also found that when mushrooms had high amounts of one antioxidant, they tended to have high amounts of the other as well. 

Ultra Low-calorie diet can reverse type 2 diabetes. A team of researchers at Yale University has found that a very low-calorie diet can quickly reverse type 2 diabetes when tested on animals. When conducted on mice, they cut their daily intake down by 75 percent and found that their blood sugar levels lowered and they decreased fat as well. As one in three Americans will develop type 2 diabetes by 2050, determining how to prevent or treat this condition is of the utmost importance. Researchers will now have to test human subjects next to determine if these findings hold true for them as well. If so, it may change the types of drugs that are given to treat this all-too-common disease.