Green Tea Against Diabetes

Filed in archive Diet , Research , Treatment on October 2, 2007

Diabetics should drink lots of green tea daily. The EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) has been found by Karolinska Institute in Sweden to be as effective but far safer than the controversial diabetes drug Avandia®.

It's been tested against Avandia on a group of mice with diabetes, and the mice that were fed EGCG were just as able to tolerate sugar and produce insulin as the mice given Avandia. At the end of the 10-week trial, the green tea extract preserved insulin-producing tissue and gave other protective effects in the pancreas.

The new study, prepared by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, confirms what we've known for a long time. Green tea was first mooted as a successful treatment for diabetes 70 years ago, and recent studies among humans have found that the more green tea you drink, the better.

This benefit of green tea is more powerful in people that drink up to six cups a day.

What do you think? Would you trust your blood sugar to just green tea? I guess to be safer green tea must be taken in conjunction to your diabetes drug.

Find more details from WDDTY (What Doctors Don't Tell You).