Black Tea Shows Blood Sugar Benefits

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Samsingh — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:00:13 GMT

Hello, I am Samsingh from Trinidad. I agree that diet can limit your blood glucose levels and exercise can reduce your limited blood glucose levels. How do you get your cell receptors to open in order to burn sugars off your blood for energy. Are we supposed to walk around feeling weak and tired and lifeless because diabetic pills causes heart attacks ? Diet and exercise will only control your blood sugar, where is your energy coming from. Someone please explain this to me. Thank you.

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Samsingh — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:04:28 GMT

Hello, I am Samnarine from Trinidad. The Diabetic care professionals are saying that diet and exercise is the answer to diabeties. Sure, diet will limit the amount of sugar in your blood stream and exercise will burn the sugar off. Someone please tell me how on earth your cell receptors will open to burn sugars and give you energy without medication. Are you supposed to refuse medication and remain tired and listless because medication gives heart attact. Someone please help. Bye Samnarine@hotmail.com

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energymaster — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:22:55 GMT

Panda,

Wrong, unfortunately there is a real problem with the natural affinity of tea for flouride; apparently it likes it too much. If you don't believe it, google!

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CauliflowerClown — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:19:34 GMT

What about eating green tea? I'm just curious cause when I was a kid if we were sick with upset stomach and diarea my mom would fix toast with no butter and put it on a plate. Then she would sprinkle a geneous portion of green tea over the top then pour hot water from the tea kettle over it and hand us a fork. That was part of our sick diet. Anyways i drink green and black teas and use honey. Also use my eliptical 30 minutes a day.

Laurie

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Yod — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:33:04 GMT

Good to know. 'Cept I can't handle any amount of caffeine at all.

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Julieanne — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:14:46 GMT

I have read several times that adding milk to black tea binds the tannin. Can't remember what tannin does, but I know it's not good! So, which is best - black or white?

Julieanne

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rawfood — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:24:02 GMT

Black tea has tannins same as coffee. Tannins are what they tan leather with. Only drink these if you want your organs to leather up like a football. If you drink regular green tea every day, in 5 years your bones will be decimated. There are low flouride options available. I also prefer the Roobios tea. Good to know about exercise dropping blood sugar levels--thanks. That is one I can use! Thanks to Dr Mercola for caring enough to get this information out to us.

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SandyF — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:33:52 GMT

I recently started "brewing" my green and black loose leaf tea cold. A glass jar of water and tea sits in the fridge overnight and the next day I have delicious tea. It solves the problem of green tea's finiky time and temperature hassle. HOWEVER, I cannot find any information anywhere on whether this still provides the health benefits of tradional hot brewing. Can anyone help?

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aziegler_203 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:09:48 GMT

Both Green and Black Tea are fantastic for you! I'd say that tea is the next best thing to water to drink. Keep in mind that you need to be drinking loose leaf tea for maximum effect. Tea bags are essentially "tea dust" from the leaves being processesed and only in the USA are we willing to accept dust for convenience and quick brewing. Ready to go teas in bottles are filled with HFCS and other yuckies. Getting a good loose leaf tea will make even someone who doesn't think they like tea a convert.

For incredible teas, go to www.inspiredaroma.com. They have awesome loose leaf teas and coffees and accessories. They're a home party company based here in Wisconsin, and if you can get a rep into your home you will learn SO much! (I don't work for them, but I'm a huge fan.) They also have herbal teas and many include roobois- a red bush plant from South Africa with 1 1/2 times the antidioxidants that tea has! (Although straight roobois is kinda harsh, the blends are spectacular). Also, knowing brew timing and not using boiling heat will help make the perfect cup. I'm a tea addict and drink it hot and cold with some wonderful raw honey. Mmmmmm....

Another tidbit- if you're worried about caffine: tea leaves can be used up to 4 times over. (just dry between on a paper towel) After the 1st inffusion, there is no longer caffine, so if you are concerned, just dump the first infusion and pour more water on. Very economical product.

Enjoy your tea!

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robynpaula — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:09:34 GMT

Hmmm......maybe it is an advertisement for black tea, and of course we are all so different as to what affects us, but I have to say black tea is fantastic for me, better than green tea. Organic high quality black tea calms me, centers me and allows me to focus better (commercial brands of tea do not have the same affect). I don't know if it is because the tea is having a positive affect on my blood sugar levels as this study suggests or not, but I do know I feel great having 2-3 of cups of black tea a day, with stevia. I am slightly hypoglycemic and do have to watch my sugar cravings. Plus, I have noticed a significant decrease in pre-menstrual breakouts since drinking black tea regularly, so the tea is definitely doing something positive in my body somewhere.

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panda679 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:56:51 GMT

Fluoride in Tea plants? Who says. One of the first things one learns in agriculture science is that a plant will only take in what that plant wants to take in and fluoride is not one of them, no matter how rich the soil is in flouride

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pinkskittles — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:08:14 GMT

does anyone know if naturally decaffeinated black tea (by carbon dioxide) has any effect on the antioxidants of the tea?

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Anna J — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:40:10 GMT

Does anyone know why green tea would cause nausea? I used to think it was because the green teas I occasionally tried weren't organic/good quality. But after reading an article by Dr. Mercola last month, I bought a really high quality, organic macha from Japan. It made me severely nauseated for two hours after I drank it. I mentioned this to a friend, and she said that she gets this same reaction from green tea. Is this common? I have no trouble drinking black teas.

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mountainkat — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:15:24 GMT

I have blood sugar levels and am a carb type, which really sucks because the choice of veges that is low in sugar is quiet limiting. I have juiced a tall glass of romaine lettuce and was starved 2 hours later. Does any other carb types know on average how much vegetables juice a carb type would drink at one meal to feel satisfied for 4-5 hours. I never thought I would have to drink a gallon because I would pee all day long!

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seg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:01:23 GMT

There's no doubting the beneficial effects of tea, both green and black. Green tea is by far the better of both but we have to be careful as to where and how it's grown (ideally it should be organic and tested) since it can have elevated Fluoride levels and we all know the ill effects of Fluoride.....

Regarding the test in particular, this was done on healthy subjects only, so we don't know for certain what effects it would have on subjects who are pre-diabetic, or diabetic and all it really shows that healthy people were able to produce more insulin which helped to evenly regulate their BG levels throughout the day.

As to diabetes itself there are far better options that have been proven to avoid and even reverse this killer diease. I won't get into them all but there's a whole section that dedicated diabetes visit:
http://www.mercola.com/article/diabetes/index.htm