Posts filed under 'Tea and Health'
If you’re looking to improve your health in the upcoming year, tea can help.
- Tea has almost no calories, and flavorful loose leaf teas do not need caloric sweeteners.
- Tea replaces other sugary beverages like soda.
- Tea is full of antioxidants, which have been linked to fighting a number of cancers, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, and other types of cancer.
- Tea is good for the cardiovascular system and dental health.
- Tea may fight the flu. A recent study on children in Japan showed “Green tea is known to contain antiviral components that prevent influenza infection.”
- Tea has some caffeine, which is released slowly for an extended level of alertness without a sudden crash.
- ECGC, the main antioxidant in green tea, may prevent Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. In 2007, at the Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health in Washington D.C., Dr. Silvia Mandell presented the results of her study which showed the main antioxidant polyphenol of green tea extract, EGCG, when fed to mice induced with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, helped to protect brain cells from dying, as well as ‘rescuing’ already damaged neurons in the brain, a phenomenon called neurorescue or neurorestoration. The Michael J. Fox Foundation is holding tests in China on early Parkinson’s patients for further research.
- Due to the inclusion of both caffeine and l.theanine, tea induces a relaxed state of alertness; it keeps you energized without being jittery, so you’re better able to focus and study. It may even be an effective treatment for ADHD.
- Tea tastes good, and may even help suppress your appetite so you don’t overeat.
It seems no matter what your resolution is this year, tea can help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.
January 3rd, 2012
Just to add to the general awareness of tea, and not to be outdone, USA Today had an article; Tea is Steeped in Health Beneifts. This was published October 7th, so I am not sure how long the link will stay active.
Hope you get a chance to look at it before they remove it.
October 11th, 2007
Dear T Bloggers,
Thought I would tell you what I have discovered about drinking tea for my health! Since becoming a serious tea drinker in 2004, I tried to find the tea with the most health for my buck. That made me take a look at Pu-erh teas, the Chinese health tea. I found out that it did a great job lowering my blood sugars every AM! But I also found out that I couldn’t drink a lot of it without eating something before noon or I would have too much of a drop in my blood sugar. Have you had a similar experience? LL
June 2nd, 2007
Staying healthy in a world that is continuously “growing smaller”, with germs circling the globe as we travel from one country to another in hours rather than days, can be alarming. Drinking tea can help. Tea will improve your state of mind as well as improve your immunity. Check out the article by Dr. Balz Frei, The Beverage Guidelines: What Should You Drink to Stay Healthy? You will find it in the Fall/Winter 2006 research newsletter from the Linus Pauling Institute
Loose Leaf
March 6th, 2007
With all the new awareness of trying to get back to purity in foods and going organic we also think about our water and what chemicals are put into it to make it safe to drink. Many of you have purifying systems to take out some of these chemicals. That is one way of getting rid of chemicals we deem harmful to ourselves and our children. One very important natural chemical that occurs in tea leaves is fluoride. Black tea carries the most fluoride but all tea has this most important content for our bones and teeth. For further information read Dr. Jane Higdon’s research on fluoride at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.
Loose Leaf
February 21st, 2007