Tea and Health, Questions and Answers

This is an excerpt from one of my World Tea News articles. To find out more about my freelance writing or to ask me about writing copy for your tea business, please contact me at vee at veetea dot com. Thank you.

1. Is green tea the healthiest kind?
“When green, oolong and black teas are studied together, they have similar benefits. However, if you’re particularly looking to get catechins (antioxidants that give tea its brisk flavor), then green is a better source than black.”

2. I heard that tea is a miracle cure for (obesity, cancer, etc.). Is that true?
“The claims people are making about the health benefits of tea are not reflective of the balance of the science. While there is science in many areas either from animal studies or poorly done clinical or population-based studies, people are using single studies to draw conclusions rather than looking at the totality of the evidence.”

3. What’s it proven to do?
“The strongest evidence shows that regular tea drinking is associated with improving blood vessel function. While the reasons for this benefit are not fully understood, the science does not support that is has a cholesterol-lowering effect.”

4. Does tea increase metabolism?
“In studies emerging from Asia and, more recently, the U.S., there is some suggestion that drinking enough green tea to provide 500 or 600 milligrams of catechins per day has a role in reducing abdominal fat through modifying fat oxidation, but there’s no evidence that tea drinking has a significant impact on metabolism, aside from the weak effects of caffeine consumption.”

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