Tea: Health Benefits
With a list of
health benefits that seems to grow longer by the day,
tea may be the closest thing we have to the Elixir of
Life in a cup. The following Web sites cover some of the
latest research on the health benefits of tea, starting
with a short article from the Canadian Broadcasting
Company about the antioxidants found in tea (1).
The second Web site
is an article from the USDA's Agricultural Research
Service magazine, offering a summary of tea-related
research projects at the agency (2).
Findings so far indicate tea helps burn more calories,
lower blood cholesterol, and enhance insulin activity.
Likewise, nutrition
researchers as Tufts University have found that green
tea may help protect against heart disease and cancer (3).
The next two Web sites contain recent articles from
ScientificAmerican.com, the first relating how a cream
made from tea could help fight skin cancer (4),
the second about how tea can help fight bad breath (5).
While we've known
for some time that tea contains antioxidants, scientists
have recently discovered other chemicals in tea that
shut down a molecule that plays a key role in the
development of cancer. The BBC News Web site has the
story (6).
Back to
antioxidants, the next Web site contains an article from
the Australian Broadcasting Web site that describes how
antioxidants may help protect brain cells from alcohol
damage (7).
And just for fun,
check out how astronauts get their daily dose of tea in
the last Web site, courtesy of Science@NASA (8).
Drink more tea to lower cholesterol: VUMC study
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/?ID=2745
Antioxidative activity of green tea polyphenol in
cholesterol-fed rats. Institute of Natural Medicine,
Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2630
Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12033827&dopt=Abstract
http://www.heart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=10000015&q=tea
Linus Pauling Institute/ Micronutrient Research for
Optimum Health/Tea: Micronutrient Information Center
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/tea/
Spot of tea might help heart patients
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/05.09/30-tea.html
Study Shows Tea Consumption Lowers Blood Cholesterol
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2003/030930.htm
NIH/National Center For Complementary And Alternative
Medicine/ Tea-health
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/greentea/
Complementary and Alternative Therapies For Cancer
Patients/ Green Tea
http://cancer.ucsd.edu/Outreach/PublicEducation/CAMs/greentea.asp
Boston University School of Medicine
Black tea tames artery disease
http://www.heart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3019656
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-black_tea.html
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsHerbs/GreenTeach.html
http://www.med.umich.edu/umim/clinical/pyramid/tea.htm
NEW STUDY PROVIDES EVIDENCE THAT TEA CONSUMPTION REDUCES
LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN ("BAD" CHOLESTEROL) LEVELS
http://www.tea.ca/press-trends-sep24.asp?section=media
Green Tea's Cancer-Fighting Allure Becomes More Potent
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/News/story.cfm?id=342
TEA, for the Health of It
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_fnut/_timely/TEAHEALT.HTM
Research Finds Tumor Preventive Qualities, Damage
Reversal, In Green Tea
http://www.aacr.org/Default.aspx?p=2084&d=192
NUTRITION COLUMN - TAKING TIME FOR TEA
http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?page=news_item_display&news_item_id=67124510
GREEN TEA FOR GOOD HEALTH
http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/wp/greentea.htm
UNTANGLING ALZHEIMER'S
From tea to statins, familiar products reveal the
mechanisms behind this complex disease and inspire new
ways to treat it
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8308alzheimer.html
Modulation of cholesterol metabolism by the green tea
polyphenol (-)-epigallocatechin gallate in cultured
human liver (HepG2) cells.
Bursill CA, Roach PD
Wellcome Trust Centre of Human Genetics, University of
Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16506810&dopt=Abstract
Green Tea: Nature's Rediscovered Ancient Medicine
By Amy Huddleston
http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/greentea.htm
http://www.rockefeller.edu/food/tealeaves.php
That morning cuppa
http://www.neurological.org.nz/html/article.php?documentCode=1206
The Better Health Channel (BHC) was established in May
1999 by the Victorian (Australia) Government.
Tea leaves and health
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Tea_leaves_and_health?open
Tea flavonoids and cardiovascular health
R.A. Riemersma, C.A. Rice-Evans1, R.M. Tyrrell2, M.N.
Clifford3 and M.E.J. Lean4
http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/94/5/277
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM)
is an international, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to
understand the sources and to encourage rigorous
research in this new, yet ancient world of complementary
and alternative medicine.)
Tea
http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/search?fulltext=tea
Tea Health Research
http://www.jcm.co.uk/catalogue.php?catID=270&opener=0-197-270
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