Both and are good for diabetes, a rat study shows. They also prevent diabetic animals from developing cataracts.
The findings appear in the May 4 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
"Black and green tea represent a potentially inexpensive, nontoxic, and, in fact, pleasurable [blood-sugar-lowering] agent," the researchers write. "Tea may be a simple, inexpensive means of preventing or retarding human diabetes and the ensuing complications."
In the study, the researchers gave green and black teas to diabetic rats for three months.
They found both kinds of tea inhibited diabetic The teas also had a blood-sugar-lowering effect.
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