Other links – tea & health
By Valley Green Tea
Posted On February 21, 2009
- The rise of tea as the world’s most renown drink is a healthy trend due to it containing anti-oxidants that can reduce ailments such as alzheimer’s and type 2 diabetes amongst others – (A video produced by PubMed): http://www.webmd.com/video/truth-about-tea
- Tea is a food item generally recognized as safe. Predominant polyphenols in green tea and theaflavins and thearubigins in black teas have antioxidant activity, with chemicals having substantial free radical scavenging activity and may protect cells from DNA damage caused by reactive oxygen species – US National Cancer Institute Tea and cancer prevention fact sheet at: http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/tea
- Yellow tea is more potent than other types of tea in suppressing liver toxicity induced by carbon tetrachloride in rats (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17444574)
- The Truth About Green Tea for Weight Loss: https://www.consumerreports.org/dieting-weight-loss/truth-about-green-tea-for-weight-loss/
- Health Benefits of Green Tea: http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/health-benefits-of-green-tea#1
- Regular tea drinkers have better organised brain regions associated with healthy cognitive function — compared to non-tea drinkers Science Daily Article.
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