{"id":605,"date":"2009-09-21T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:32:41","slug":"bitter-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/bitter-melon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Melon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;Bitter Gourd&#8221;.\u00a0 Bitter Melon (Momordica chirantia) is used as both a food and traditional medicine in Asia\/Southeast Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Bitter melon has hypoglycemic effects, due to the ability of various components to inhibit alpha-glucosidase activity (which slows carbohydrate digestion), <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayFulltext?type=6&amp;fid=1789720&amp;jid=&amp;volumeId=&amp;issueId=04&amp;aid=1789716&amp;bodyId=&amp;membershipNumber=&amp;societyETOCSession=&amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;fileId=S000711450783176X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve insulin signalling<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jn.nutrition.org\/content\/133\/4\/1088.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce insulin resistance<\/a>. Other elements have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18959405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-tumor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11458453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-viral<\/a> activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;Bitter Gourd&#8221;.\u00a0 Bitter Melon (Momordica chirantia) is used as both a food and traditional medicine in Asia\/Southeast Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Bitter melon has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[92,184,185,356,506,554,666,906,942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}