Red wine and tea, a combination to regulate your blood sugar
Researchers have shown that red wine and tea have a promising effect to regulate blood sugar of people with type 2 diabetes.
The levels of glucose in the blood increase in patients with type 2 diabetes immediately after a meal.
The red wine and tea contains antioxidants that help slow the passage of glucose through the small intestine and into the bloodstream, which can prevent the peak blood sugar.
Maintaining levels of blood sugar normal is one of the major challenges of managing diabetes; doing so can help prevent the disease contribute to heart disease and high blood pressure, as well as not to damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves and blood vessels.
In the study, researchers also tested the wine and tea may inhibit the activity of an enzyme called alpha-glucosidase, which is responsible for activating the absorption of glucose level of the small intestine.
The red wine proved the most effective because it was able to inhibit the enzyme by almost 100 percent, compared with the white wine that only achieved a 20 per cent.
Of the four types of tea to the test; “black, oolong, white and green tea, black tea proved to be the most efficient, followed by white tea and oolong tea.
April 30 2008 07:25 pm | Product Discussion