Can black tea influence plasma total homocysteine concentrations?

Jonathan M Hodgson, Valerie Burke, Lawrence J Beilin, Kevin D Croft, and Ian B Puddey

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Brewing Up the Latest Te a Research

This research is part of Human Nutrition, an ARS National Program (#107) described on the World Wide Web at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.

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Green Tea Polyphenols as Potent Enhancers of Glucocorticoid-Induced Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Gene Expression

 

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Green Tea Polyphenols: Novel and Potent Inhibitors of Squalene Epoxidase

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Effects of the Oral Administration of Green Tea Polyphenol and Tannic Acid on Serum and Hepatic Lipid Contents and Fecal Steroid Excretion in Rats

 

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Health Benefits of Tea Drinking

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Hepatoprotective Effect of Rooibos Tea (Aspalathus linearis) on CCl4-Induced Liver Damage in Rats

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Tea and Cardiovascular Disease

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Inhibition of Cholesterol Biogenesis by Tea Polyphenols Inhibition of Cholesterol Biogenesis by Tea Polyphenols Inhibition of Cholesterol Biogenesis by Tea Polyphenols Inhibition of Cholesterol Biogenesis by Tea Polyphenols

 

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Medical Murmurs: The Benefits of Tea University of Toronto Medical Journal

 

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All Tea’d Up Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods

 

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Another benefit to tea-time

(CNN) --The health benefits of tea have often been lauded and now researchers have found one more reason to drink up. A new study shows a direct relationship between consuming tea and lowering cholesterol levels.

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Black and Green Tea: How do they differ?

 

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Green tea and black tea combine a powerful punch against cholesterol

 

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Chinese Tea Found To Lower Cholesterol

Researchers have found a type of Chinese tea to be effective in lowering cholesterol levels in lab mice, reports the China Post.

A conductor of the study, Dr. Sun Lu-hsi of National Taiwan University (NTU) says she and a team of researchers found that when lab mice were put on a special diet that contained Pu'erh tea, a special bacteria-fermented Chinese tea, their cholesterol levels all showed a significant drop.

Sun said even though her study on this particular Chinese tea has shown encouraging results on lab mice, she has yet to conduct a similar research on human beings to know whether it would yield the same effect.

Nevertheless, the NTU researcher stressed that, unlike adverse effects often associated with new drugs undergoing clinical trials, constant and moderate drinking could only promote overall health without any possible side effects.

 

Green tea can be more than a comforting brew

The wind is blowing snow around outside and you're sitting comfortably in your chair, sipping a cup of hot tea, warming you from the inside out. And holding the warm mug is a bonus for your cold fingers.

Tea was discovered in China more than 4,000 years ago and today is one of the world's most popular drinks. But tea is more than a steamy, comforting brew. Evidence of green tea's health-promoting properties is becoming more wide spread, says Nicole Nisly, M.D., UI Health Care physician specializing in alternative medicines at the UI Family Care Center. The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression.

Western research is providing evidence supporting the health benefits of drinking tea, especially green tea. "I recommend green tea regularly to my patients with cancer," says Nisly. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute has published several articles about green tea including the results of an epidemiological study indicating that drinking green tea reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly 60 percent.

There is also research indicating that the antioxidants in green tea lower total cholesterol levels, as well as improve the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol. Green tea is loaded with catechin polyphenols, a type of photochemical with 100 times the antioxidant kick of vitamin C.

Tea and Cancer Prevention

National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute -- December 5, 2002 -- Tea drinking is an ancient tradition dating back 5,000 years in China and India. Long regarded in those cultures as an aid to good health, researchers now are studying tea for possible use in the prevention and treatment of a variety of cancers. Investigators are especially interested in the antioxidants -- called catechins --found in tea. Despite promising early research in the laboratory, however, studies involving humans so far have been inconclusive.

Study says tea can help body fight illness
A new study finds that tea boosts the body's defenses against infection and contains a substance that might be turned into a drug to protect against disease, researchers say. Coffee does not have the same effect, they say.

A component in tea was found in laboratory experiments to prime the immune system to attack invading bacteria, viruses and fungi, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released Monday.

A second experiment, using human volunteers, showed that immune system blood cells from tea drinkers responded five times faster to germs than did the blood cells of coffee drinkers.

"We worked out the molecular aspects of this tea component in the test tube and then tested it on a small number of people to see if it actually worked in human beings," said Dr. Jack F. Bukowski, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School. The results, he said, gave clear proof that five cups of tea a day sharpened the body's disease defenses.

Penny Kris-Etherton, a nutrition specialist at Penn State University, a nutrition expert, said Bukowski's study adds to a growing body of evidence that tea is an effective disease fighter.

But she said the work needs to be confirmed in a much larger study.
The health effects of tea have been extensively studied. It has been linked to lower heart disease and cancer risk through the action of flavonoids, a type of antioxidant. Other studies have linked tea to helping combat osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease.

Gargling with tea helps avoid flu
Usually spring comes with outbreak of flu. It is reported by People's Daily that according to Japanese investigation, catechins of tea is able to restrain the activity of flu virus. So that keeping on gargling with tea can effectively help people avoid infection of it.

Flu stems from virus proliferation in nose and throat, on protuberant cells of mucous membranes that may be covered by catechins consisting in tea. Therefore tea acts as a vaccination against flu when used as a mouthwash. In this aspect, green tea has the best effect, said by researchers. We can see clearly in experiment that virus of flu becomes not infectious in 5 seconds when mixed with 4 times diluted solution of ordinary green tea.