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Black Tea Could Lower Your Diabetes Risk

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Cowboyjim

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Not much substance to this piece but worth a quick look maybe.... 8)

"Countries with high black tea consumption have lower type 2 diabetes rates, compared to other nations, researchers reported in BMJ Open today. The authors carried out a mathematical analysis of data from fifty different nations.
Ireland is the biggest tea drinker per head in the world, with consumption at 2kg per year per person, the United Kingdom came a close second, and then Turkey. The lowest black tea consumers were Mexico, Morocco, China, Brazil and South Korea.
With the use of PCA (principal component analysis), a type of statistical approach, they managed to find out what impact black tea consumption had on the health indicators selected at the population level."
http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=252568
 
I am 68 years old and have drunk weak unsugared black tea all my life as I don't like hot milk. I am not over weight and lead an active life with a good diet or so I thought.

I have high blood pressure, high cholestral and now prediabetes so what is going wrong.

I was on statins for 6 months but became worried about the side effect of memory loss which I was experiencing and did not know this could be a side effect of Statins.

After visiting my doctor he took me off statins and I am trying to ajust my eating habits to try and alter my cholestral reading and hopefully reduce my blood sugar levels.
I now do not eat any cake or deserts I eat brown rice now instead of white have stopped eating potatoes or use white flour and have asked the GP to refer me to a dietician so fingers crossed because I find all the information on the web totally confusing on what I can and cannot eat.

I'm desperate for information to help myself.
 
It should be noted
Competing interests
All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form: no support from any organisation for the submitted work, no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years. Co-author GB is employed at Unilever PLC as Chief R&D Officer and has provided access to the Euromonitor International global tea consumption data without any financial agreement or any grant to support this study, which has been carried out in total independence. There are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

The authors are careful to say that there is a correlation between high black tea consumption in a population and low diabetes rates - not that one causes the other.
 
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