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Green tea compound may prevent diabetes, autoimmune disorders 11-07-08
A compound found in green tea could slow or even prevent the development of type 1 diabetes, new research in mice suggests.
Green tea contains several antioxidants that have been shown to curb inflammation, prevent cell death, and possibly even ward off cancer.
In the current study, Dr. Stephen D. Hsu of the 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.
They fed the mice plain water or water spiked with 0.2 percent EGCG.
EGCG, the investigators found, reduced the severity and delayed the onset of salivary gland damage associated with Sjogren's syndrome -- a condition with no known cure.
EGCG also dramatically slowed the development of type 1 diabetes in the rodents. At 16 weeks, they found, 25 percent of the mice given the green tea compound had developed diabetes, compared to 67 percent of the mice given water. At 22 weeks, 45 percent of the EGCG group had diabetes, while 78 percent of the control group did.
"Our study focused on Sjogren's syndrome, so learning that EGCG also can prevent and delay insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes was a big surprise," Hsu said in a statement.
Both type 1 diabetes and Sjogren's syndrome are autoimmune diseases, which cause the body to attack itself.
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, the researchers conclude.
Comments:
This is great news but no surprise to healthy green tea drinkers! Drinking green tea daily is a good start but if you are prone to autoimmune disorders or diabetes I recommend consuming matcha which is green tea concentrate. The internet is full of recipes using matcha.
 Green Tea Cookies Yield (2” oval or round shape): Approx 25 350 oven Ingredients 3/4 cup (2.25 oz) Organic Confectioners sugar Optional: 2 drops Bella Mira Lemon Essential Oil if you like lemon in your tea, you will prefer this method. Directions
Very Important: The higher quality matcha you use, the brighter green the cookies will be. Store the cookies in a tin or other container that blocks out sunlight to preserve the color. The green color will fade when exposed to sunlight. |
 Green Tea (Matcha) Ice Cream 2 cups raw organic heavy cream Whisk the matcha with the milk and sugar/ stevia, making sure the matcha dissolves. Stir in the cream and vanilla. If using a frozen-canister based ice cream, maker, chill the ice cream in the refrigerator for another hour to make sure it is sufficiently cold for processing, or hold in the freezer about 15 minutes. Process in your ice cream maker according to manufacturer instructions. This produces about 1.25–1.5 quarts of ice cream, depending on expansion. Make sure this is appropriate for your ice cream maker and adjust proportionally to your capacity. If you’d like a more custardy ice cream, you might use an egg yolk or two in your recipe, perhaps reducing the cream a bit to compensate for the extra fat.
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