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These food items are known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects and can provideprotection from cardiovascular diseases and high blood pressure. (Source: Thinkstock)

Cocoa and green tea contain substances that may help prevent and treat kidney

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complications and retinal lesions caused by diabetes, according to scientists at

Brazil’s Campinas State University.

The findings are from a study supported by the Sao Paulo State Research Support

Foundation.

Jose Butori Lopes de Faria, coordinator of the study, said the project “proved, in a

rigorous way”, that cacao and green tea reduce the death of podocytes, the cells that

restrict the transfer of proteins to urine.

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“The transfer of albumin to urine is the main renal disorder in a patient with

diabetes,” the scientist said.

The beneficial effects of cocoa and green tea were attributed to the presence of

polyphenols, although, in the case of cocoa, researchers found that it contains other

substances that might help treat the effects of diabetes.

One of them is theobromine, an alkaloid that activates the nervous system.

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Theobromine’s possible benefits in the treatment of diabetes “had never been

described before in specialized literature,” ophthalmologist Jacqueline Mendonca

Lopes de Faria said.

The study was conducted on rodents with induced diabetes and on cells from

rodent and human tissues exposed to high concentrations of glucose to simulate

diabetes.

Green tea and cocoa are known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects

and, while tea might provide protection from cardiovascular diseases, cocoa lowers

systolic blood pressure.

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