Tea Sippers

In an attempt to cut costs and provide only samples of tea to prospective American customers, the Englishman and tea merchant Thomas Sullivan sent out tea in small silk purses. Not really knowing what to do with them, the Americans just dunked them into cups of hot water. Sullivan received complaints that the silk was too fine and so he created gauze tea bags. There you go - …

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We have a new study out that seems to contradict an earlier finding. This tea was served with milk which is where the contradiction to an earlier study shows up. Skin cancer development was reduced by 50% and papillomas development was reduced by 70%. Sounds like a good enough reason to be…

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In a very small study out of Brazil, researchers tested how the prior consumption of green tea vs. water affected athletes before and after doing resistance exercises. These exercises create a lot of oxidative stress in the body. The athletes, aged between nineteen and thirty, drank water or green tea three times a day for seven days. Then they performed sets of a bench press exercise. Apparently, researchers
collected…

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