{"id":5756,"date":"2012-11-14T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2012-11-14T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T23:47:06","slug":"drinking-green-tea-with-starchy-food-may-help-lower-blood-sugar-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5756","title":{"rendered":"Drinking green tea with starchy food may help lower blood sugar spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mice fed an antioxidant found in green tea &#8212; epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG &#8212; and corn starch had a significant reduction in increase in their blood sugar &#8212; blood glucose &#8212; levels compared to mice that were not fed the compound, according to Joshua Lambert, assistant professor of food science in agricultural sciences.<br \/>\nThe spike in blood glucose level is about 50 percent lower than the increase in the blood glucose level of mice that were not fed EGCG,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-11\/ps-dgt110812.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-11\/ps-dgt110812.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mice fed an antioxidant found in green tea &#8212; epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG &#8212; and corn starch had a significant reduction in increase in their blood sugar &#8212; blood glucose &#8212; levels compared to mice that were not fed the compound, according to Joshua Lambert, assistant professor of food science in agricultural sciences. The spike in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=5756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drinking green tea with starchy food may help lower blood sugar spikes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}