Vote for Your Health

Diabetes mellitus is undoubtedly one of the health problems of greater importance in the world, with nearly 30 million diabetics in the world. In Europe alone, this figure exceeds the 10 million, of which more than one million live in Spain. It is also estimated that half of those affected are unaware of their situation by getting it in mild and that close to 40% of obese people have diabetes without knowing it.

The figures speak for themselves: Diabetes is the most serious endocrine problem of the twentieth century. In these pages, we deal with depth and severity of diabetes. In short, a condition in which the control diet is the cornerstone of treatment and in which food is directly involved. Example, type II diabetes (adult-onset diabetes), besides a genetic predisposition exists, is primarily due to dietary factors (obesity and industrialized food) and a too sedentary.

It has been known for some time that black tea has many healthy properties. Among its positive features include the be an effective antioxidant.

But now I just found one more to be added to the list: it could help control diabetes. This is published in a medical study released by the Institute of Food Technologists in its journal Journal of Food Science.

And it is worth remembering that the tea is, after water, the most widely consumed beverage worldwide.

To complete this good news, Chinese researchers Tianjin Key Laboratory studied the levels of polysaccharides from black tea, green and “oolong” (another variety) and compounds that can help diabetics as it helps slow the absorption metabolic glucose.

And what experts Laboratory found that the polysaccharide is black tea had significant inhibitory properties and glucose absorption.

Furthermore, it was also the variety of tea more effective against free radicals have.

Chen Haixia The researcher responsible for the work, said he found a powerful natural inhibitor of glucose and is an interesting potential for using black tea and its compounds in the management of diabetes.

The excess iron is associated with poorer metabolic control of type 2 diabetes. Therefore, the Biomedical Research Center in Red-Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition has shown that blood donation could prevent this condition.

Blood donation is a safe mechanism for expelling human body iron could prevent type 2 diabetes. This is one of the prominent findings of the studies developed in the Biomedical Research Center in Red-Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (Ciberobn) have shown that this strategy helps to control the disease.

The research is the section of Endocrinology, Hospital Josep Trueta, Gerona, Spain, directed by José Manuel Fernández-Real. The results indicate that routinely donate blood leads to an improvement in insulin resistance and, consequently, could prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Scientists have found that blood samples in a controlled manner can balance the levels of iron absorbed by the body and prevent oxidation of tissues. They found that excess iron is associated with poorer metabolic control of type 2 diabetes.

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