Green tea prevents diabetes

Green tea prevents diabetes

Most of us knew the benefits of green tea and now in a recent research its found that Green tea could be useful cure to prevent diabetes. Green tea has several antioxidants that prevent cell death, and possibly even ward off cancer.

Dr. Stephen D. Hsu (Medical College of Georgia in Augusta) and colleagues tested the effects of green tea's predominate antioxidant known as EGCG in laboratory mice with type 1 diabetes and Sjogren's syndrome, which damages moisture-producing glands causing dry mouth and eyes. EGCG also dramatically slowed the development of diabetes in the rodents. At 16 weeks, they found, 25 % of the mice given the green tea compound had developed diabetes, compared to 67 percent of the mice given water. At 22 weeks, 45% of the EGCG group had diabetes, while 78% of the control group did. Hsu and his team also found that the salivary gland cells that were under autoimmune attack were actually multiplying, but EGCG slowed this proliferation. Such rapid cell division has also been shown to occur in psoriasis.

The current study supports earlier research showing EGCG's impact on helping prevent autoimmune disease.