Tea for blood sugar control?

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in General

While tea is known to promote general health with phytophenols and antioxidants, according to a professor from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Dr. Jo Ann Carsonm tea can be a thing for blood sugar control too.

According to the professor of clinical nutrition, studies conducted in various centers suggest that incidence of type-2 diabetes in those who take 2 to 4 cups of tea a day (on a regular basis) is very low.

Jo Ann Carson all teas can be included in a healthy diet including the black, white and oolong tea. As per Carson taking iced sugarless tea or sugared iced tea in moderation; either of them will do good to health.

Abdominal fat cell size could determine if you will be diabetic in future

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Turbo in Health

A new study says that big cell size in the abdomen could actually is enough to predict that you will be diabetic in future.

According to the Swedish researchers who conducted study on several women, the abdominal fat cell size and/or the ratio of waist to height could actually be used as tools to determine if you will be type-2 diabetic in future.

The study of their research was published online in the FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Journal. And the findings say that although the abdominal fat cell number remain almost the same in a woman after adolescence, the cell size could actually change with time and bigger in those women who are type 2 diabetics.

This correlation between fat cell size and development of type-2 diabetes might prompt research in the preventive as well as therapeutic research

Their study based on over 1000 women also helped derive a simple formula of waist-to-height ratio which is obtained by dividing the waist circumference by body height could actually be used as a tool to identify the risk for type-2 diabetes in women.