Health Benefit Claims
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 and Illness
So the past few days have had me feeling under the weather, and I’m still not out of the woods yet. But one thing I discovered is that hovering my face over a hot cuppa tea is almost as healing as consuming a bowl of chicken soup. Being the ever-curious woman I am, I found Continue reading
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Healing Teas
Disclaimer: This is not intended as medical advice. Please consult your physician for your particular needs. You hear a lot about all of the health benefits of tea these days. Everyone is claiming that oolong can make you lose weight, green tea will prevent cancer, and black tea will save you from the perils of Continue reading
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Tea and Lung Cancer
The health problems attributed to tobacco smoking are probably no secret to anyone nowadays. What might not be so well known is the fact that tea might offer some small measure of protection against lung cancer. Ninety percent of these cases, according to some experts, can be attributed to smoking. In 2008, cancer researchers at Continue reading
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Yerba Mate and Health
In many parts of South America a beverage called yerba mate is as popular as coffee is in North America, if not more so. Yerba mate is most often prepared in a gourd called a mate and consumed through a filtered metal straw called a bombilla. Lately, yerba mate has begun making inroads in other Continue reading
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A Bit of Gluten-Free Heaven
I am known in my family as a great sufferer when ill. I sit around in my misery, moaning and sighing. Picture Felix Unger of ‘The Odd Couple’ in a pink bathrobe. I assemble all my many remedies around me. Someone once asked me exactly what my remedies were. I started to make a list. Continue reading
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Tea and Caffeine
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 9, 2010. The decaffeination process described here has since been shown not to be effective. My thanks to Nigel Melican of Teacraft.com for his note on this. It’s the long , cold days of winter where I live, and tea is something I drink for taste, Continue reading
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Green Tea and Liver Disease
According to the American Liver Foundation, a condition called fatty liver occurs when excess fat in liver cells makes up more than ten percent of the liver’s overall weight. This condition can lead to serious complications and is estimated to affect 10-24 percent of people around the world and perhaps as many as 75 percent Continue reading
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The Sustaining Power of Tea
Do you like old movies? I adore them. I mean black and white ones, not the color ones from the sixties and seventies that are often passed off as classic. I was watching an old one the other evening: In Which We Serve. Filmed in 1943 and written by Noel Coward, it is a classic Continue reading
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Tea and Health: Osteoporosis
In the United States, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, this bone disease affects eight million women and two million men. Some 34 million Americans have low bone mass, a condition that places them at increased risk for osteoporosis. According to Osteoporosis Canada, an estimated 1.4 million Canadians also suffer from the disease. If you’re Continue reading
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More Health Benefit Claims About Tea
Tea is good. Tea is good for you. Some shrewd tea merchants tend to exaggerate the latter point in the service of selling more tea, but there’s strong evidence even so to indicate that tea has numerous health benefits. We’ve reported on a number of these potential benefits thus far. Here are a few more Continue reading
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