Green Tea
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Narrowing My Tea Options
It was a little less than a year ago that I wrote this article exploring the benefits of maintaining variety in tea drinking habits, in which I encouraged a more diverse approach to enjoying tea. At the time, I found myself alternating primarily between green tea and black tea. After drinking one style for a… Continue reading
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Can Green Tea Shrink Tumors?
I tend to be cautiously skeptical when it comes to the many health claims surrounding tea. For me, tea stands on its own as a beverage worth enjoying, and any potential health benefits are simply an added bonus. As always, it’s wise to approach bold or sweeping claims with some caution. For example, you can… Continue reading
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Green Tea Aids Memory?
The litany of potential health benefits for green tea continues. For anyone who might have missed it, one of the latest areas of interest is the idea that green tea may help enhance memory. For additional background on how tea may influence brain function, see this earlier article examining tea’s potential effects on memory, cognition,… Continue reading
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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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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, 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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Green Tea and Liver Health
If you’re like me, you probably tend to take your liver for granted and might not be quite sure what it even does. Which is all well and good—until you run into problems with it. The good news is that tea and its related compounds may play a role in supporting liver health. Take hepatitis,… Continue reading
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St. Patrick’s Day Tea Time Goes Green!
St. Patrick’s Day is here again. Don some green apparel to symbolize the “Emerald Isle” called Ireland. Break out the green goodies like cupcakes covered with green icing and sugar cookies in the shape of shamrocks and adorned with green crystal sugar coloring. Then, steep up some green tea for a special St. Patrick’s Day… Continue reading
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Green Tea for Oral Health?
Is there any miraculous health benefit that has yet to be laid at the feet of green tea? Aside from curing bubonic plague and the gout, it seems like just about everything else has been covered. To paraphrase the old advertising slogan about orange juice, “a day without a report about green tea’s health benefits… Continue reading
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Green Tea and HFCS
Times have been kind of tough lately for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a substance which has been coming under fire over the course of the past few years. The popular and rather ubiquitous sweetener has been disparaged in certain quarters of late, with some blaming it for contributing to an increase in obesity, among… Continue reading
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