Green Tea benefits patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Study on green tea's effects on intestinal enzymes. The researchers from University of Toyama in Japan concluded it could protect against or improve type 2 diabetes.
The study set out to determine if green tea would inhibit the carbohydrate-degrading capacity of alpha-glucosidase and glycogen phosphorylase, naturally occurring enzymes in the intestinal tract.

The team looked at cell cultures and found that green tea's gallated catechins (catechin 3-gallate, gallocatechin 3-gallate, epicatechin 3-gallate and epigallocatechin 3-gallate) effectively inhibited the enzymes. Thus, they concluded, "Dietary supplementation with these galated catechins or the green tea extract containing them... would contribute to the protection or improvement of type 2 diabetes," according to an abstract of the findings. Read original article here