A study of more than 1,000 people found that drinking a cup of this tea every day can significantly reduce the risk of diabetes

It is said that drinking tea is good for cardiovascular health and reduces the risk of diabetes. So how does a cup of tea affect the body? A recently published study found that drinking tea can increase urinary sugar excretion and improve insulin resistance!

Drink a cup of dark tea every day, reduce the risk of diabetes by 47% In October 2023, researchers from the Zhongda Hospital affiliated to Southeast University in my country released a latest study at the 2023 European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting. The study showed that compared with people who never drink tea, people who drink dark tea every day have a 47% lower risk of type 2 diabetes and a 53% lower risk of prediabetes.

The study found that:

Compared with those who do not drink tea, those who drink tea every day have an increase of 0.11 mmol/mmol in urinary glucose excretion, a decrease of 0.23 in the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index for assessing insulin resistance, a 34% decrease in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and a 39% decrease in the risk of prediabetes.

When analyzing tea by type, the researchers found:

Drink black tea, these benefits are more obvious!

Drinking black tea was associated with an increase of 0.16 mmol/mmol in glucose excretion in urine and a decrease of 0.31 in triglyceride-glucose (TyG), which assesses insulin resistance. Compared with people who never drink tea, people who drink black tea every day have a 47% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and a 53% lower risk of developing prediabetes.

In addition, previous studies have found that drinking tea can help reduce the risk of diabetes.

Drinking at least four cups of tea a day is associated with a 10% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to research results presented at the 2022 European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting.

The meta-study involved more than 1.07 million participants, and the results showed that for every additional cup of tea consumed per day, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes decreased by about 1%.

Compared with people who hardly drink tea:

People who drank 1-3 cups of tea a day had a 4% lower risk of developing diabetes; when they drank 4 cups or more a day, the risk of developing diabetes was reduced by 17%.

These teas include black tea, green tea and oolong tea.

Drinking tea is very particular! Choose different teas for different body types

There are many things to know about tea selection. Drinking the wrong tea may harm your health. Tea selection should be "seasonal". Generally, flower tea can boost your spirits in spring, green tea can relieve summer heat in summer, oolong tea can moisten your lungs in autumn, and black tea can warm your spleen and stomach in winter.

Professor Li Jingxiao, chief physician of the Department of General Internal Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, introduced in 2023 that after the beginning of autumn, people have experienced a long hot summer, and the body fluid is relatively insufficient. In addition, the weather becomes cooler, the sweat pores and pores are closed, and the body surface water decreases, so it is easy to have autumn dryness symptoms such as dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat, and dry skin. It is suitable to drink green tea at this time. Green tea is oolong tea, which is a semi-fermented tea between green tea and black tea. The tea is mild, neither warm nor cold, and has the effects of moisturizing the skin and removing dryness, promoting body fluid and moistening the lungs, and clearing heat and cooling blood.

In addition, winter is cold, everything is closed, and the physiological activities of the human body are suppressed. At this time, people focus on keeping warm and drinking black tea. Black tea is sweet and warm, with a mellow taste, and has the effects of nourishing yang, warming the stomach, and dispelling cold.

Of course, it is more comfortable to drink tea according to your physical condition. It is recommended that:

1. People with yang deficiency: black tea, red tea

Symptoms include fear of cold, cold limbs, lack of energy, pale and fat tongue or with tooth marks, etc. Such people should choose warm tea, such as black tea and black tea.

2. People with Yin deficiency: Yellow tea, white tea

Symptoms include hot palms and soles, hot flashes and night sweats, irritability, dry mouth and throat, dry and red tongue with little coating, etc. Such people should drink yellow tea or white tea.

3. People with Qi deficiency: Pu'er ripe tea, black tea

Symptoms include pale complexion, shortness of breath, lack of energy, fatigue, spontaneous sweating, pale tongue with white fur, etc. Such people should drink mild tea, such as Pu'er cooked tea, black tea, etc.

4. People with phlegm-damp constitution: Oolong tea

Symptoms include obesity, abdominal distension, chest tightness, phlegm, easy drowsiness, heaviness, enlarged tongue, greasy white tongue coating, etc. Such people are suitable to drink oolong tea.

5. People with Qi stagnation: White tea

Symptoms include being thin, often unhappy, depressed, often feeling chest tightness, often sighing for no reason, and prone to insomnia, etc. Such people should drink white tea.