Sunday, August 30, 2009

Type 2 Diabetes and Green Tea - Does it Actually Work Or is This Just Hype?

Do you have diabetes or does someone in your family have diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes type 2 in young adults is happening in epidemic proportions these days. There are more young people these days that are diagnosed with Diabetes type 2.


Diabetes can be a devastating illness because the complications are blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks and even loss of a lower limb. There is not actual cure for diabetes at this time.

The treatment for diabetes is diabetic meal plans, exercise and medications. Now there is evidence that there is something new that diabetics can use to help control their blood sugar. There are studies on tea that suggest that consumption could prevent type 2 diabetes. Green tea is made with the leaves of the camellia sinensis bush.

Benefits of tea are antinflammatory, antioxidative, anticarniogenic and able to prevent cardiac disorders and now preventing diabetes. This last study was completed in China. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reported that the green tea catechin epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), could enhance the action of insulin.

A growing body of research also suggests that the polyphenols in tea can lower your cholesterol, triglyceride levels and blood pressure, and even help to protect your bones.

Another study in Europe reported that green tea-extract also had a positive impact on glucose abnormalities. In that study, daily supplementary intake of tea-extract lowered the hemoglobin A1c level in individuals with borderline diabetes.

Maybe before resorting to drugs for diabetes you might want to add a few cups of green tea every day and enjoy the benefits of natural treatments.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

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