Each extra cup of black or green tea a day reduces the risk of diabetes by about 1%.
Frequent consumption black the green tea – at least four cups a day – is associated with 17% lower risk of type 2 diabetes within the next decade, shows a major new Chinese scientific research.
The study – a systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies from eight countries (China, USA, Japan, UK, Netherlands, France, Finland, Singapore) with data on a total of about one million people – led by Xiaoying Liu of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, was presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) annual conference in Stockholm (September 19-23).
The new study found that each extra cup a day reduces the risk of diabetes by about 1%. Compared to those who drank no tea at all, those who drank one to three cups daily had a 4% lower risk of diabetes, while the risk reduction reached 17% for those who drank more than four cups a day on average.
Tea is known to benefit health because it has various antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer substances. The reduction in risk applies equally to men and women, as well as to both green tea (which is not allowed to oxidize too much during processing) and black tea (which is oxidized until it turns black).
“Our findings are very encouraging because they show that people can do something as simple as drinking four cups of tea a day to reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes,” Li said.
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