Health Benefit Claims Not Intended to Replace Doctor Advice
Articles reporting claims for health benefits from drinking teas and herbals. These are not intended to replace advice from your doctor.
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Tea Causes and Cures Prostate Cancer?
If you keep close tabs on tea-related news (guilty), you’ll notice that it’s rare to go a day without seeing a report highlighting the potential health benefits associated with tea and its various compounds . Far less common are reports that point to possible downsides. Recently, however, conflicting research has emerged suggesting that tea may… Continue reading
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Recent Research on Tea and Health
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ve likely noticed numerous articles exploring possible connections between tea and improved health. If you’d like to revisit that material, you can browse this collection of posts covering various tea health benefit claims and related research . One topic we’ve previously explored involves tea’s potential role… Continue reading
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Tea and Healthy Skin
Tea as a home remedy for sunburn? Tea and Skin Health: Can Tea Help Treat Sunburn? There are countless claims linking tea and skin health, especially when it comes to the antioxidant content of white tea and green tea. As “antioxidants” have become a popular topic in anti-aging and skincare discussions, tea is often highlighted… Continue reading
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A Cup a Day Helps Keep Heart Disease Away?
Disclaimer: This is not intended as medical advice. Please consult your physician for your particular needs. As most of us are probably aware, heart disease is no small problem nowadays. Here in the United States alone the facts regarding this condition are rather eye-opening. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) heart disease is… Continue reading
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Tea — The Ultimate Hydrator?
Somewhere out there the idea that tea made you dehydrated caught hold and spread. Recently, though, studies like this one have been coming out to show that tea could be the ultimate hydrator instead. Good news for those of us who imbibe a fair amount of tea on a daily basis. One thing we can… Continue reading
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Tea, Exercise, and Hydration
You don’t need to be an expert in human biology to understand the importance of staying hydrated while you’re exercising. Of course, it’s important to stay hydrated all the time, but that’s especially the case when you’re exercising. As the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) notes, body weight can decrease anywhere from one to… Continue reading
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Getting Tea Benefits for Less Money
Tea is supposed to have quite a range of health benefits, from weight loss, cancer prevention, and hair health, to skin care and wrinkle prevention. Some vendors take advantage of such claims by packaging their teas as products targeting these conditions and charging exorbitant prices. But you, the careful shopper, can get those tea benefits… Continue reading
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Green Tea Leaves vs. Supplements
The potential health benefits of green tea varieties rich in antioxidants and beneficial compounds are hardly a well-kept secret these days. It sometimes seems that new reports highlighting its advantages appear regularly. Given this attention, it’s not surprising that some companies have attempted to capture those perceived benefits in supplement form. While the idea of… Continue reading
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Tea Helps Reduce Parkinson’s Risk?
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it is a chronic, progressive condition that affects at least half a million people in the United States. Current treatments can help manage symptoms, but they do not stop the progression of the disease. There… Continue reading
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Tea, Testosterone Doping, and Babies
Sensational headlines are hardly unusual nowadays (or in the past, for that matter, to be historically accurate about it). Five minutes of the most cursory research would probably turn up more of them than you could shake a stick at. But for my money one of the more sensational tea-related headlines to come down the… Continue reading
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