
- Tastes good, the main reason you should drink tea!
- Promotes weight loss, drinking a cup of oolong or green tea speeds up the old metabolism and cuts some of those winter hibernation calories.
- Steeping tea is cool, watching the tea infuse with the hot water is fascinating even better than watching that coffee maker drip.
- Tea’s got a kick, any tea whether black, green and white (just not straight herbal and decaf) it has caffeine in a dose that gives you a boost. Black teas have the highest amount!

- There is a tea for every taste, whether you like a stiff black hot tea or a cold lemony sweet iced tea you got choices in tea.
- Tea is boosts your immune system, no one likes getting sick.
- Tea fights harmful bacterial and viral infections, and this is a good thing.
- Green and black teas are full of antioxidants.

- Tea has cancer fighting properties.
- Tea can help prevent blood clotting.
- Tea contains fluoride, just what the dentist ordered for stronger teeth.
- Green tea can even help prevent tooth decay with its bacteria fighters going after plaque.

- Lowers high blood pressure.
- Help neutralize enzymes that aid in the growth of tumors.
- Contains EGCG, a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.
- EGCG is twice as powerful as resveratrol, which is the good stuff in red wine.

- Green tea might help prevent diabetes.
- Increased mental alertness, not only from the caffeine but also increased alpha waves in the brain causing ‘alert relaxation’.
- Lowers chances of cognitive impairment, people who consumed more than 2 cups of green tea a day had a 50 percent lower chance of having cognitive impairment.
- Lowers stress hormone levels, everyone could use some stress release.

- Tea hydrates you, all the benefits of water with so much more.
- Drinking 3 or 4 cups a day can protect you from heart attacks.
- Green tea protects the liver from the damaging effects of toxic substances like as booze.
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Friday ~ March 02, 2007 |
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Tea Facts, White Tea, History of Tea, Health Benefits, Green Tea, Tea, Uncategorized