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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Allow Your Children to Drink Tea or Not? – What a Question!!!
In the Age of Communication, publishing and distributing their thoughts and ideas is always at people’s fingertips. Actually, this is really great, and the world of tea has benefited hugely from this: there are myriads of tea bloggers, creators of websites or books or e-books related to tea, content writers and “niche journalists” out there… Continue reading
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Is Replacing Your Water Intake with Drinking a Lot of Tea a Good Idea?
(Tea in this article means tea in terms of tea, the old Chinese cult beverage gained from different varieties of the Camellia Sinensis plant and processed in various different ways. Separate considerations would have to be made to cover this question for tisanes instead.) If you’re a true tea geek, you must have come across… Continue reading
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Is Drinking Tea Bad for You?
Is drinking tea bad for you? Clearly not. Yet this is the exact question asked by the title of a recent article in The Guardian newspaper. Apparently, some studies have suggested that drinking an excessive amount of tea can cause brittle bones. And by excessive, they really do mean excessive (a gallon a day), even… Continue reading
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Weight Loss Tea: A Closer Look
I’ve been mumbling and grumbling about tea, health, and weight loss for years. I’m tired of hearing myself rant about the topic, but I’ll start by briefly restating my position. I acknowledge that there are many studies indicating that tea is good for you. There are even some that suggest that tea has a connection… Continue reading
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Does Green Tea Help Burn Fat?
Buyer beware. Don’t believe everything you read. Okay, they’re not the most original phrases, but when it comes to the marketing of tea and the many health benefits that it’s said to bestow on us, they’re appropriate maxims to keep in mind. My standard disclaimer here. Yes, I do believe that tea can have some… Continue reading
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Can Green Tea Shrink Tumors?
I tend to be cautiously skeptical when it comes to the many and varied health claims for tea. For my money tea is just fine as a beverage and, if it happens to benefit my health in any way, I’ll take that as a nice fringe benefit. As always, I caution the reader to approach… 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, the latest in this multitude of possible benefits is the notion that green tea might help enhance memory. For more on how tea can help other brain functions, refer to this article from a few years ago. It… Continue reading
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EGCG: A Closer Look
If you’ve been following the numerous reports about tea’s alleged health benefits in the media (including the ones at this site) in past years, then you’ve probably encountered a mouthful of a term known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate. Which is one of the most often cited beneficial compounds found in tea and one that’s typically shortened to… Continue reading
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Tea vs. Terrorism
To say that tea can help fight against terrorism is perhaps not completely accurate. But over the course of the years there have been several studies that have found that tea can be of some use in fighting against one of the more unpleasant manifestations of terrorism – chemical and biological weapons. Most recently, scientists… Continue reading
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