Puer tea may significantly lower blood sugar, help prevent diabtetes

A new two-year study conducted by scientists at Jilin University and the Changchun Science and Technology University found that drinking puer tea may significantly reduce blood sugar levels and help prevent diabetes. In a study of twenty obese rats with very high blood sugar, eight of ten of those that were not fed puer tea developed sores and infections died after eleven months. All ten rats that were fed puer tea lived beyond eleven months, and none developed sores or infections.

The study also compared the blood sugar reducing ability of puer tea versus Rosiglitazone, a drug widely used to reduce blood sugar. The study found that after two weeks the rats that were fed Rosiglitazone had a 36.5 percent reduction in blood sugar, verus a 42 percent reduction in the puer tea fed rats. Puer tea fed rats lost weight, while the Rosiglitazone rats did not.

The deputy mayor of Pu'er City pointed out that Yunnan has one of the best longetivity rates in China, the lowest cancer rate, and Pu'er city has the lowest number of cancer patients in Yunnan.

The study also found that when 120 diabetic human volunteers stopped taking their diabetic medication and drank puer tea regularly, seventy percent lowered their blood sugar levels below 7 mmol/L, an average decrease of 35 percent.

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Summer Newsletter

Recently Yang Su returned from her trip to China and Taiwan. In Taiwan she visited some tea farmers, and found a great pesticide-free Bao Zhong green tea. Bao Zhong tea is Taiwan's most famous green tea. You can see our Bao Zhong slideshow. We have also added a slideshow of our popular cerified organic oolong tea.

In puer tea, we have added new green puer tea from the Jin Yu Xuan company. This includes Jin Mai, Yi Wu, and Jindamo green cakes. We have added new gaiwan, yixingware, glassware and will soon be adding bamboo accessories and other items.

In May we represented the Piao I teapot company at the 2009 World Tea Expo in Las Vegas. You can see a slideshow at Piao I USA. We will have an exciting new Piao I product in the near future.

Lastly, we added a couple of new health studies to our health benefits section. One study conducted by UCLA shows that people who drink at least 3 cups of green or black tea a day have a 20% less risk of having a stroke. The more tea you drink, the more benefit you get.

Another study found that puer tea tea may be useful in reducing cardiovascular disorders. These studies may be viewed in our Health Benefits section.

We hope you are enjoying the summer. As always, we love to hear from you.

--Larry and Yang Su