Tag: nutrition
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Antioxidant Properties of Black Tea
Categories: Research & ArticlesTea is a natural beverage without any artificial coloring, flavoring or preservatives. It is also free of cholesterol and calories. Tea is one of the most common beverages consumed around the globe. One out of every two people in the world today is a tea drinker. It has been estimated that around 3.2 million tons…
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Green Tea for Type 2 Diabetes
Categories: Research & ArticlesType 2 diabetes is a degenerative disease in which the body becomes less efficient at absorbing and utilizing glucose. It is different than Type 1 diabetes because it is acquired as the body’s cells become less and less receptive to insulin—the shuttle that delivers glucose to be burned and stored in cells—whereas type 1 is present at birth. Elevated…
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Chai Tea for Digestion
Categories: Research & ArticlesLegend and lore suggest chai tea was invented by a royal king in India who kept his recipe undisclosed and sacred. In fact, chai tea is a product of Ayurveda, a science of India that dates as far back as five thousand years. Chai does not refer to a particular type of tea, but the manner in…
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Health Benefits of White Tea
Categories: Research & ArticlesUpdated: 09/07/17 According to the Harvard School of Public Health, “54% of Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee every day”, with an average of 3.1 cups a day, totaling a spend of $40 billion per year. Though the benefits of caffeine have been confirmed study after study, the high cost and sugar content of…
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Vegetarian Diets Help Prevent Cancer
Categories: Research & ArticlesVegetarianism is more than just leaves and twigs. It’s also a far cry from the granola-munching we picture from the ’60s. Diverse in colors and flavors as it is in textures and nutrients, vegetarian diets also play a part in preventing and reducing the risk of cancer. Before you munch on a salad or grab…
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Chinese Medicine Used to Treat Food Allergies
Categories: Research & ArticlesPeople suffering from food allergies aren’t always aware that their symptoms are caused by the food they are eating. It often can be more difficult to discover that a person is allergic to a certain type of food, as opposed to discovering that a person is allergic to a bee sting, for example. Some people…
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Green Tea Extract May Help HIV Patients
Categories: Research & ArticlesAdding to the list of its already known health benefits, modern science is coming to find chemicals found in Green Tea may also show promise for slowing the degradation of immune cells caused by HIV. The immune cells that HIV attacks are the T-cells produced by the thyroid gland. These cells are often referred to…
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Red Tea is Beneficial for Tension and Depression
Categories: Research & ArticlesThe Chinese scholar Lu Yu in his Cha Shung, the earliest treatise on tea, says, “When feeling hot, thirsty, depressed, suffering from headache, eye ache, fatigue of the four limbs or pains in the joints, one should only drink tea. Tea tempers the spirit, harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude, relieves fatigue, awakens thought, prevents drowsiness…
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Black Tea Aids Oral Health
Categories: Research & ArticlesAccording to the latest research, black tea is beneficial for overall oral health. Black tea, the most common among the three types of teas–black, green, and red–helps to prevent bad breath and facilitates the wellbeing of your teeth and gums. Relax and kill bacteria with black tea As you sip your cup of tea, the…
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Black Tea and Heart Disease
Categories: Research & ArticlesNext to water, Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Since ancient times it has been considered a precious commodity and major influence on trade routes and expeditions. Among all the teas available, Black Tea has ling been the most popular because of its distince aroma and long lasting flavor. In recent…