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Tea Can Improve Your Health and Longevity, But How You Drink it Matters
A comprehensive review found that tea, especially green tea, is strongly associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), obesity, diabetes and several forms of cancer. Beyond these well-known benefits, tea consumption is also linked to brain protection, reduced muscle loss in older adults, and anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects. Together, these findings point to ...
Drinking Two or More Cups of Coffee Daily May Double Risk of Heart Death in People With Severe Hypertension
Drinking two or more cups of coffee a day may double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) among people with severe high blood pressure (160/100 mm Hg or higher) but not people with high blood pressure not considered severe, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. In contrast, the ...
New Discovery Explains Antihypertensive Properties of Green and Black Tea
A new study from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) shows that compounds in both green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications. Published in Cellular Physiology ...
Drinking Green Tea and Coffee Daily Linked to Lower Death Risk in People With Diabetes
Drinking plenty of both green tea and coffee is linked to a lower risk of dying from any cause among people with type 2 diabetes, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. Drinking four or more daily cups of green tea plus two or more of coffee was associated with ...
Can Supplements Help With Weight Loss?
For years, we have struggled to effectively help people to lose weight using diet and exercise alone. While the pharmaceutical industry has several drugs on the market that are approved to help with weight loss, none are overly effective, and many people don’t want to jump into taking a prescription medication. Instead, many individuals are ...
Green Tea: Anti-Inflammatory & Cardiovascular Benefits
By Prof. Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG) Huntington College of Health Sciences For more than 3,000 years, green tea has been consumed as a refreshment and for its health promoting properties. In later years, this includes green tea extract form in dietary supplements for a variety of benefits. Chief among these are its well established antioxidant ...
Study: Drinking Green Tea to Prevent Artery Explosion
Japan’s favorite beverage might be offering more than just a relaxing tea break. According to new research, green tea could prevent a deadly condition in the body’s main artery. A Kyoto University team has found that abdominal aortic aneurysm—a condition in which the main artery becomes overstretched and bloated—developed less frequently in rats that drank ...
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