Drinking dark tea every day may help to mitigate type 2 diabetes risk and progression in adults through better blood sugar control, suggests new research at this year’s Annual Meeting of The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Hamburg (2-6 Oct).
The study, by researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia and Southeast University in China, found that compared with never tea drinkers, daily consumers of dark tea had 53% lower risk for prediabetes and 47% reduced risk for type 2 diabetes, even after taking into account established risk factors known to drive the risk for diabetes, including age, gender, ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), average arterial blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, cholesterol, alcohol intake, smoking status, family history of diabetes and regular exercise.
“The substantial health benefits of tea, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, have been reported in several studies over recent years, but the mechanisms underlying these benefits have been unclear”, notes the study’s co-lead author Associate Professor Tongzhi Wu from the University of Adelaide and The Hospital Research Foundation Group Mid-Career Fellow.
“What Is This?” - article doesn’t say what “dark tea” is :-/
Dark tea is made from dark tea leaves…simple !
Jokes aside, it’s “normal” tea leaves as opposed to green tea or fruit infusions. Your standard bag / box of yorkshire tea / english breakfast etc
Does it count if you add milk though?
Since the study did not constrain their diets, adding or not adding milk is an independent variable.
But since the study also includes populations that are lactose intolerant, that may be a correlated factor they didn’t look at
Better have another cup just to be sure then
Yeah, but dark tea can cause kidney stones… Can’t win.
I drank about 2 liters of black tea a day for several years and never got them. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I’d be willing to bet it’s rare enough to be trivial.
