Five Big Reasons to Drink Tea

'If you are enjoying tea while reading this article keep right on drinking. A recent study found drinking tea results in a 37% reduction in breast cancer risk for women under the age of 50, an age in which breast cancer can be particularly virulent. Another recent study has shown tea drinking reduces risk of endometrial cancer. These results add to the pile of data showing tea is one of the healthiest beverages a person can drink.'

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Green tea found to reduce disability in the elderly

'Green tea could help pensioners stay in the pink, according to a study. Those who drank the beverage stayed more physically active than their peers, researchers found. Coffee and standard tea did not provide this benefit. 

Researchers tracked the health of almost 14,000 men and women aged 65-plus for three years, noting what they ate and drank and factoring in data on any care they needed. The more green tea they consumed, the more mobile and self-sufficient they were.' 

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France waves au revoir to green tea in food supplements

'Green tea: it’s a health gem, isn’t it?  Tasty, low in caffeine, high in the antioxidant polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), and rich in carotenoids, tocopherols, vitamin C, chromium, manganese, selenium, zinc and more.  But of course, it’s also so much more.  

Green tea is an extremely valuable tool that can help modern, Western society deal with the type II diabetes/obesity/metabolic syndrome crisis, one of the biggest, new, fertile plains over which the pharmaceutical industry dearly wants sole rights.'

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