Well, February saw the setting of a new record for the number of people to attend a tea party. The event was organized in Indore, India at the Nehru Stadium. It was set up to best Japan’s record setting event held in 2006 and met the goal of the event organizers.
India more than doubled the number of people at the Japanese tea party with over 32000 attendees all sitting down together to enjoy a cup of hot tea. This required 1000 volunteers to serve all that hot tea.
India is now the proud owner of the new tea party participant record for the world in the Guinness World Records.
The only thing missing from this story was what type of tea was served to all the party goers.
Filed under Tea Events by on Feb 27th, 2008. 
We know that green tea is good for you. Now a study from Japan’s National Cancer Center says it can even give men a 48% reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer. Of course you need to be drinking five cups of green tea a day or more. This percentage is a reduced risk over men you drank less than one cup a day.
However it looks like all the studies going on are coming up with different things. One Canadian study found just general tea drinking meant less risk of prostate cancer developing while a Chinese study found that the more tea you drank, increased frequency, the less risk of
malignancy”. But another Canadian study found no difference between general tea drinkers and those who miss out on the wonderful drink that is tea.
Maybe since it was about general tea drinkers, they were black tea drinkers and not green tea drinkers and that made the difference. Oh, looks like the first study’s authors pointed that out. They said the other studies also didn’t take into account the stage of cancer either. Oops.
Source: http://www.renalandurologynews.com/Green-Tea-May-Cut-Advanced-PCa-Risk/article/107241/
Filed under Tea by on Feb 28th, 2008.
Let’s hope you are in one of the lucky 13 states and two Canadian provinces that now have access to a very potent green tea. It is the DoMatcha Japanese Green Tea and comes from an 800 year old recipe concocted by Zen monks. That means from the 13th century.
Laboratory testing shows this green tea delivers as many antioxidants, in one cup, as you would find in eight to ten cups of regular green tea. Wonder what they are calling “regular steeped green tea”? However, matcha tea helps prevent infectious and cardio-vascular diseases, increase serotonin, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, and even raises the metabolism which just might help you lose weight.
So, if you are in California, Washington State, Oregon, Nevada, Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, or Hawaii, you might want to run out to your local Whole Foods Market and get yourself some DoMatcha Japanese matcha tea. That is, you might want to run if you are interested in improving your health. Otherwise, you could just walk or drive and then enjoy a soothing cup of hot tea once you get home.
Source: http://www.mmdnewswire.com/jpnese-te-3007.html
Filed under Tea by on Feb 28th, 2008.