Tea Time for Your Health
July 3rd, 2007 by mark
Drink up.
That tall glass of iced tea or steaming hot cup of chai could save your life — or at least prolong it.
So say an increasing number of researchers pointing to the Camellia sinensis plant, (from which green, black, and white teas are made) as a remarkable, oft-underestimated health tonic with the ability to fend off cancer, reverse heart disease, and promote mental clarity, to name a few.
“Not a day goes by in which somebody isn’t discovering another fantastic thing about tea and its role in determining human health,” says Joe Simrany, president of the Tea Council of the USA, an industry trade group. “We now have scientific credibility to back many of the intuitive things that have been said about tea over the years.”
Of course, tea has been associated with calmness and well-being for roughly 5,000 years, since — as the legend goes — a Chinese emperor accidentally dropped some leaves from a nearby tree into the water he was boiling.
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