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TEA TIME
If you're not drinking tea yet, read up on these 10 ways tea does your body good
1. Tea contains antioxidants
Tea's antioxidants protect your body from the ravages of aging and the effects of pollution.
2. Tea has less caffeine than coffee
Coffee usually has two to three times the caffeine of tea which combines caffeine with mate, an herb that acts like caffeine in our body.
An eight-ounce cup of coffee contains around 135 mg caffeine,
Tea contains only 30 to 40 mg per cup.
3. Tea may reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke
Drinking tea may help keep your arteries smooth and clog-free .
Unwanted blood clots formed from cholesterol and blood platelets cause heart attack and stroke.
A study ands found a 70 percent lower risk of fatal heart attack in people who drank at least two to three cups of black tea daily compared to non-tea drinkers.
4. Tea protects your bones
One study found that people who drank tea for 10 or more years had the strongest bones, even after adjusting for age, body weight, exercise, smoking and other risk factors.
It's not just the milk added to tea that builds strong bones.
5. Tea gives you a sweet smile
Tea itself actually contains fluoride and tannins that may keep plaque at bay.
So add unsweetened tea drinking to your daily dental routine of brushing and flossing for healthier teeth and gums.
6. Tea bolsters your immune defenses
Drinking tea may help your body's immune system fight off infection.
7. Tea protects against cancer
Thank the polyphenols, the antioxidants found in tea, once again for their cancer-fighting effects. While the overall research is inconclusive, there are enough studies that show the potential protective effects of drinking tea to make adding tea to your list of daily beverages.
8. Tea helps keep you hydrated
Caffeinated beverages, including tea, used to be on the list of beverages that didn't contribute to our daily fluid needs.
Since caffeine is a diuretic and makes us pee more, the thought was that caffeinated beverages couldn't contribute to our overall fluid requirement.
The only time the caffeine becomes a problem as far as fluid is concerned is when you drink more than five or six cups of a caffeinated beverage at one time.
9. Tea is calorie-free
Tea doesn't have any calories, unless you add sweetener or milk.
Consuming even 250 fewer calories per day can result in losing one pound per week.
10. Tea increases your metabolism
Lots of people complain about a slow metabolic rate and their inability to lose weight.
Green tea has been shown to actually increase metabolic rate so that you can burn 70 to 80 additional calories by drinking just five cups of green tea per day.
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