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Blood Pressure | Brain | Cancer | Cholesterol | Diabetes | Heart | General HealthTea vs. Blood Pressure
July 26, 2004 -- Drinking as little as a half-cup of green or oolong tea per day may lower the risk of high blood pressure by nearly 50%, according to a new study of Chinese tea drinkers
Researchers found that men and women who drank tea on a daily basis for at least a year were much less likely to develop hypertension than those who didn't, and the more tea they drank, the bigger the benefits. read more...
Green Tea Helps Blood Pressure
Dec 1, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new study published in 2008 in Nutrition suggests that daily intake of green tea (Camellia sinensis) extracts may lower blood pressure, cholesterol and biomarkers of oxidative stress. read more...
Tea & The Brain
ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2007) -- Does the consumption of green tea, widely touted to have beneficial effects on health, also protect brain cells? Authors of a new study being published in the December 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry share new data that indicates this may be the case. read more...
Tea Improves Brain Performance
Working with colleagues from Norway, a team from the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics set out to study the relationship between cognitive brain function in older people and the intake of flavonoid-rich chocolate, wine and tea. read more...
Tea vs. Cancer
Green tea just keeps getting better. To add to the abundance of health-improving qualities of the beverage, UAB Researcher Santosh Katiyar, Ph.D., associate professor of dermatology, claims that it can reduce the risk of skin cancer. read more...
Tea Against Lung CancerMarch 12, 2007 -- Green tea may fight lung cancer and could inspire the creation of new lung cancer drugs, scientists report. read more...
Green Tea, Cancer & HealthIn oriental culture, it has been widely believed for a long time that tea has medicinal efficacy in preventing and treatment of many diseases. Drinking tea is often related to longevity. read more...
Black Teas Fight CancerCHICAGO (Reuters Health) -- Numerous studies have suggested that regular consumption of black tea is protective against a host of human cancers. Now scientists think they know why. Black tea's "secret weapon" may be a compound called theaflavin-3'-monogallate (TF-2), one of a family of potent anti-cancer compounds read more...
Tea Vs. Cholesterol
Drinking tea lowered low-density lipoprotein, the LDL "bad" cholesterol, in a small group of volunteers in an Agricultural Research Service study reported in the October issue of the Journal of Nutrition. read more...
Puer Against CholesterolIn one study in laboratory animals, puer tea was the only kind of tea which could actually raise the level of good cholesterol (HDL) and lower the level of bad cholesterol (LDL.) read more...
Harvard, Tea & CholesterolTea's health benefits are largely due to its high content of flavonoids — plant-derived compounds that are antioxidants. Green tea is the best food source of a group called catechins. In test tubes, catechins are more powerful than vitamins C and E in halting oxidative damage to cells... read more...
Tea vs. Diabetes
DRINKING tea could help combat diabetes, Scottish scientists claim. The potentially therapeutic properties in black tea have been discovered by scientists at the University of Dundee. read more...
Black Tea & Diabetes PreventionCompounds in black tea called theaflavins and thearubigins were found to be able to mimic the effects of insulin, according to the results of the study published in the journal Aging Cell. read more...
Tea & THE Heart
July 2, 2008 — Drinking green tea rapidly improves the health of the delicate cells lining the blood vessels and helps lower one's risk of heart disease. read more...
TIME Magazine on Tea & the HeartA new study shows that the beverage, which is more popular in Eastern cultures, can protect heart arteries by keeping them flexible and relaxed, and therefore better able to withstand the ups and downs of constant changes in blood pressure. read more...
Tea Studies on General Health Benefits
MONDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- Green tea can help antibiotics be three times more effective in fighting drug-resistant bacteria, even superbugs, according to a study by researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt. read more...
Tea Drinking Boosts Detox Enzyme ProductionScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2007) -- Concentrated chemicals derived from green tea dramatically boosted production of a group of key detoxification enzymes in people with low levels of these beneficial proteins, according to researchers at Arizona Cancer Center. read more...
Green Tea Vs. HIVMay 25, 2006 -- An antioxidant in green tea may block HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from attaching to an important molecule on immune system cells. read more...