What are the health benefits of tea?
September 8, 2010 by admin
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I mainly drink: white chia tea, green tea and black tea. I don’t add anything to any of the teas I drink like milk or sugar. What are the health benefits?
Tea of all types contain caffeine. Caffeine is supposed to be diuretic. It increases urination. It may also interfere in movement of fluid from one cell to another in some form.
Health benefit is that when your digestive system is packed up, tea helps in clearing the mess. It elevates mood as well by extracting water and other nutrients from food. That gives immediate energy boost. A person who takes tea for the first time can feel highly energetic for 24 hours.
But bad things is – it is addictive. In long run it kills you. When u get used to tea it stops working for more than 2 hours. That means it kills your metabolism. It seals the digestion track from inside and interferes in cell to cell movement of fluids.
Acts as an antioxidant for the body
Tea has some antioxidants. From black teas [varying degrees of fermentation and blackness] to green and then white, black has the least and white the most. And white tea is from the buds as opposed to the leaves, which may concentrate antioxidants. Antioxidants are lost to a certain extent in the fermentation process. Black teas being the most fermented. Stick with white tea if it is antioxidants you are interested in. If you want a caffeine free tea that is full of antioxidants then look for green rooibos tea as this is naturally caffeine free. Not aware that you can get a white rooibos tea as of yet.
Adding milk to tea neutralizes some of the antioxidants so again if it is antioxidants you are interested in then stick with drinking your tea without milk… I don’t think milk goes very well with green and white tea anyway
For anyone with iron-deficiency anaemia who has to take iron supplements, as recommended by a doctor, they should avoid black tea and coffee as the tannins can interfere with iron absorption.