Does tea make you healthier?

Evidence keeps accumulating that drinking tea contributes to reduction in sickness and positive health in many ways. Friedman and colleagues recently published their findings in the Journal of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2007) and suggested that the beneficial effects are due to polyphenols in the tea.

1. Green tea has about 30 and 40 per cent polyphenols. Black tea is basically green tea that has undergone fermentation process. The polyphenol content of black tea varies from 3 to 10 percent. Oolong tea is semi-fermented tea and thus its polyphenol content falls in between green and black tea.
2. Both green and black tea have ingredients that fight against a variety of cancer cells including breast, liver, ovarian, prostate cancer.
3. Drinking tea has been linked to fighting obesity by causing weight loss via several mechanisms.
4. Several studies have shown that tea protects against Alzheimer's disease.
5. There is decreased risk of gallstones
6. Tea protects against liver injury.
7. Tea fights against food-borne and other pathogenic bacteria, virulent bacterial protein toxins, viruses and fungi.

Do you drink tea often? Will this post alter your beverage drinking habits?

Comments

[steven davies]

Does tea really helps for Alzheimer's prevention?
Then I will drink more tea.