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What if drinking tea helped fight diabetes? This is what a study reveals, which highlights the usefulness of black tea in the fight against prediabetes and diabetes. Thus, drinking two cups of black tea per day would reduce the risk of prediabetes by 15%, and the risk of diabetes by 30%.
What if, by drinking a cup of tea, you took care of your health without even knowing it. Drinking black tea could help stave off diabetes, according to a new study. A new beneficial action, which adds to the long list of benefits of tea on our health. Thus, scientists already knew the benefits of green tea, which is full of antioxidants, particularly protecting our heart and our brain.
“Better elimination of sugar”
But this new study on 2,000 people this time looked at black tea. And it shows that drinking at least two cups per day is associated with a reduction in the risk of pre-diabetes by 15%, and the risk of diabetes by almost 30%.
“Tea allows for better elimination of sugar at the kidney level. If we eliminate more, inevitably, there is less sugar in the blood and blood sugar levels drop”, explains to Europe 1, doctor Catherine Lacrosnière, doctor nutritionist in Paris.
Vary the teas
“The method of manufacturing this tea, that is to say fermentation, also allows the appearance of antioxidants which will modify the way in which the body uses sugar by limiting what we call insulin resistance” , she continues.
And this doctor adds that for tea lovers, it is also good to change the variety from time to time. However, be careful not to overdo it on green tea, which in large quantities can limit the absorption of iron in the body.