Drinking tea is a relatively traditional way of health preservation. It can not only replenish water for the body, but also refresh the mind, anti-oxidation and other functions. Therefore, in daily life, many people especially like to drink tea, including some people with diabetes.
But there are also many people who worry that drinking tea with diabetes will have a certain impact on blood sugar and other organs. So, can diabetics drink tea?
For people with diabetes, tea can be appropriate.
Tea contains many vitamins and various mineral elements, which can improve the patient’s metabolic function, and can dilute the blood viscosity, which has the effect of preventing a series of vascular complications. Moreover, tea is also rich in catechins, which can delay the absorption of some sugars in the intestinal tract and have the effect of inhibiting the rise of postprandial blood sugar.
In addition, the polyphenols contained in tea can increase the secretion of insulin in the patient’s body and have the effect of stabilizing the blood sugar level.
Especially in green tea, it contains a lot of vitamins, catechins and tea polyphenols, which not only have antioxidant effects, but also improve digestion and metabolism, and also reduce fat. Slimming effect. Especially for people with type 2 diabetes, drinking some green tea in daily life can also prevent obesity.
This shows that diabetics can drink tea properly. However, there are some precautions that diabetics must keep in mind when drinking tea.
What are the precautions for diabetics drinking tea?
One, mainly weak tea
There are many types of teas that people with diabetes drink. In addition to green tea, black tea, Pu-erh tea, and some scented teas can be properly drunk. However, no matter what kind of tea it is, it must be mainly light tea, not strong tea.
Tea is particularly rich in theophylline, which stimulates the blood vessels, nerves, heart, and brain and gastrointestinal tract. If the tea leaves are too thick, these irritations will be aggravated, and a series of discomforts will easily occur. It will also increase the burden on the kidneys and even induce the appearance of diabetic nephropathy.
Second, reasonable control of drinking amount
Although proper drinking tea for diabetics has more health maintenance effects, it is not the more the better.
Once suffering from diabetes, the patient’s nerves, heart, blood vessels, vision and kidneys are prone to some diseases, especially the incidence of kidney complications will be very high. If diabetic patients drink a lot of tea, it will increase the burden on the kidneys, and the probability of inducing diabetic nephropathy will be particularly high.
Third, pay attention to the choice of tea time
Due to diabetes, a person’s nerves are affected, resulting in neuropathy. When you go to bed at night, you may experience insomnia or wake up early.
And tea is rich in theophylline, which can make the cerebral cortex overexcited. If you drink tea in the time before going to sleep, it will inevitably stimulate the nerves and aggravate the problem of insomnia.
In addition, people with diabetes should not drink tea on an empty stomach. Diabetic patients need to control the amount of food they eat at each meal. If they drink tea on an empty stomach, it is easy to have a relatively obvious hunger, causing patients to experience dizziness, palpitation, and fatigue.
All in all, proper drinking tea for diabetics can not only effectively prevent the occurrence of vascular complications, but also improve the overall metabolic function and stabilize blood sugar levels. But when drinking tea, some precautions must be kept in mind.
In addition to the above 3 points, if a diabetic patient has developed kidney disease, he or she must strictly control the amount of tea, or do not drink tea. To prevent aggravating the burden on the kidneys, there is a greater harm to health.