Put down those saucer cups and get chugging — tea is officially awesome for your health. But before loading up on Red Zinger, make sure that your “tea” is actually tea. Real tea is derived from a particular plant (Camellia sinensis) and includes only four varieties: green, black, white, and oolong. Anything else (like herbal “tea”) is an infusion of a different plant and isn’t technically tea.

But what real tea lacks in variety, it makes up for with some serious health benefits. Researchers attribute tea’s health properties to polyphenols (a type of antioxidant) and phytochemicals. Though most studies have focused on the better-known green and black teas, white and oolong also bring benefits to the table. Read on to find out why coffee’s little cousin rocks your health.

Tea can boost exercise endurance. Scientists have found that the catechins (antioxidants) in green tea extract increase the body’s ability to burn fat as fuel, which accounts for improved muscle endurance.
Drinking tea could help reduce the risk of heart attack. Tea might also help protect against cardiovascular and degenerative diseases.
The antioxidants in tea might help protect against a boatload of cancers, including breast, colon, colorectal, skin, lung, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, ovarian, prostate and oral cancers. But don’t rely solely on tea to keep a healthy body — tea is not a miracle cure, after all. While more studies than not suggest that tea has cancer-fighting benefits, the current research is mixed.
Tea helps fight free radicals. Tea is high in oxygen radical absorbance capacity (“ORAC” to its friends), which is a fancy way of saying that it helps destroy free radicals (which can damage DNA) in the body. While our bodies are designed to fight free radicals on their own, they’re not 100 percent effective — and since damage from these radical oxygen ninjas has been linked to cancer, heart disease and neurological degeneration, we’ll take all the help we can get.

http://www.punchng.com/health/healthwise/reasons-tea-is-good-for-you/ lalasticlala

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Adesiji77:


http://www.punchng.com/health/healthwise/reasons-tea-is-good-for-you/ lalasticlala

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Tea, though ridiculed by those who
are naturally coarse in their nervous
sensibilities will always be the
favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Informative.

Thank You.

the 4 people above me na eruku oshodi fan

Nice

As a good Nigerian, we prefer pab, ogi, Akamu.

Enlightening. Thanks OP

Make sense

Perfect. Turn up, Michellla. Let's have a relaxing chat over a cup of tea.

abi

mrlycan:
the 4 people above me na eruku oshodi fan

Lol. Me sef o.

smh

That was then, not any longer
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i love coke the caffeine work wonders

its been a long time

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Am not really a fan of tea oh, guess I will start using it.....

Okay, make i branch me shayi joint sharp sharp

Which Tea?

Category 1: Milo,Bournvita,Ovaltine and the likes

Category 2: Lipton,Top tea

Category 3: Ginger tea


o.p which of the above listed u bin dey talk?

yemstok:
Which Tea?

Category 1: Milo,Bournvita,Ovaltine and the likes

Category 2: Lipton,Top tea

Category 3: Ginger tea


o.p which of the above listed u bin dey talk?

Olodo! Category 1 are not Tea but beverages or better still Cocoa drinks