Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Prevented Through Green Tea?

Apparently the answer to the title question is "yes". With the improved glucose tolerance, green tea extract may help prevent Type 2 diabetes.

(Newstarget) to a new study by DSM Nutritional Products that catechin, commonly known as catechins, improve glucose tolerance diabetic mice, and may be a positive addition to the prevention of type 2 diabetic diet If the results significantly, can be used for human beings.

"To our knowledge, we provide the first evidence that mice consumed in Congress pressure potent hypoglycemic activity in a dose-dependent manner in vivo," wrote lead author swen W magazine DSM Nutritional .

In the study of 37 male mice, a serious diabetic patients, and were divided into four groups. Rats fed 2.5, 5 or 10 grams of EGCG per kg diet, or a placebo, for seven weeks.

During the five weeks of signs, the researchers oral glucose tolerance test, and found that blood sugar levels reduced by 23, 35 and 48 percent, at 2.5 5 - and 1 0 grams website. In the six weeks to study, the scientists tested, insulin resistance and blood samples were taken at the end of the test, blood glucose, free fatty acid and triacylglyceride level. All on the basis of improved dose-dependent.

The researchers also studied the effects of EGCG 5 grams per kilogram of feed over 10 weeks, to the mildly diabetic rats and found that impaired glucose tolerance level of blood glucose, free fatty acid and plasma concentration has improved. Analysis of rat liver cells and found that catechin down-regulating genes involved in glycogen synthesis of different health and fatty acids, triglycerides and cholesterol.

"Our data show that supplementation with catechins may improve glucose tolerance in humans with type 2 diabetes," concluded researcher. "This hypothesis should now conduct a survey in the random, placebo-controlled trial." Tungsten, DSM plans, for the start of this trial soon.

In the United States, more than 20 million people with diabetes - about 7 per cent of the population - about 190,000 people in the European Union is suffering like this - about 4 percent of the population. Treatment of the disease costs about 132 billion US dollars, according to the American Diabetes Association.