Tea cuts diabetes risk
A Dutch study of more than 40,000 people over a period of 10 years has concluded that drinking 3 cups of tea per day can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 42%. Drinking more than 3 cups did not reduce the risk further. This is welcome news, as the number of people contracting type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically in the past 10 years.
It was already known that drinking coffee reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes, but the similar effects of regularly drinking tea were previously unknown. The study suggested that the beneficial effects were probably explained by the flavonoid antioxidants contained in tea.
Dr Ruxton of the UK Tea Advisory Panel said: “This study is not the first to look at the relationship between black tea and diabetes. A large study involving 36,908 Chinese men and women living in Singapore found that those who drank more than one cup of black tea a day were 14 per cent less likely to develop diabetes. This Dutch paper expands our knowledge. It is good news for the large number of people in the UK who drink black tea.”
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