Chinese New year and green tea

[sebg]

With Chinese new year (spring festival) approaching it's worth reminding you about the benefits of drinking Chinese tea (green tea, oolong, pu-erh, black tea, ect) especially for diabetes

 

[Antje77]

With Chinese new year (spring festival) approaching it's worth reminding you about the benefits of drinking Chinese tea (green tea, oolong, pu-erh, black tea, ect) especially for diabetes

Do you have any links to research on this?
How does tea help diabetes? And is it helpful in all types of diabetes?

 

[JTL]

Do you have any links to research on this?
How does tea help diabetes? And is it helpful in all types of diabetes?

Green tea might improve insulin sensitivity.
More tests needed still.

 

[Antje77]

Green tea might improve insulin sensitivity.
More tests needed still.

"Might improve" is completely different from the statement in this thread, which also included all types of Chinese tea to be 'beneficial for diabetes'.

 

[Chris24Main]

There is the link to this page on this very site regarding relative potential beverage benefits...

Tea is one of the nations favourite drinks and research suggests its also a healthy drink. Tea brings a number of health benefits including improving insulin sensitivity.

Tea is one of the nations favourite drinks and research suggests its also a healthy drink. Tea brings a number of health benefits including improving insulin sensitivity.

www.diabetes.co.uk

Not stating any preferences myself (other than pointing out that coffee is also just as "potentially" beneficial).

 

[Antje77]

There is the link to this page on this very site regarding relative potential beverage benefits...

Tea is one of the nations favourite drinks and research suggests its also a healthy drink. Tea brings a number of health benefits including improving insulin sensitivity.

Tea is one of the nations favourite drinks and research suggests its also a healthy drink. Tea brings a number of health benefits including improving insulin sensitivity.

www.diabetes.co.uk

Not stating any preferences myself (other than pointing out that coffee is also just as "potentially" beneficial).

Here's a link back to the study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/M22-0041?journalCode=aim
It doesn't tell us anything on the other habits of the participants. Was it the tea or can it be that regular tea drinkers statistically make some other life choices as well?
The non tea drinkers must have drank something as well. so what did they drink? Coke and other sugary or artificially sweetened drinks? Beer? Plain water? Can it be that the ones choosing tea, which is generally seen as a pretty healthy drink, made other healthier choices as well?
I think it's pretty important to know what we're comparing, isolating tea and drawing conclusions without anything else taken into account doesn't really sound very scientific, and nothing I've read so far seems to justify the absolute statement that 'drinking Chinese tea is especially beneficial for diabetics'.

I'm not at all saying that tea doesn't help with diabetes, it might wel do. But if someone states this as a fact I'd like to see proof.

 

[Antje77]

Found a more informative link. Short version (my words): More research is needed before definite conclusions can be drawn.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002231662209914X#:~:text=Black%2C%20green%2C%20and%20oolong%20teas%20were%20shown%20to%20enhance%20insulin,enhancing%20insulin%20action%20(29).

 

[Africanaussie]

I’ve been drinking more green tea lately, mostly because I enjoy it, but if there are possible health perks, that’s a bonus. I used to just chuck boiling water on it and wonder why it tasted weird. Turns out timing and temperature make a big difference.