This is an article worth to take notes. For over 6,000 years Chinese people begin to drink tea, herbal tea's as daily drink....
Healthy Food No. 5: Tea
If you sip on soda at the desk, substituting green tea could be a lifesaver. Even black teas -- and especially the new, trendy "white tea"-- also can up your antioxidant levels.
The beautiful, pale, green tea is rich in polyphenols, a free radical fighter. Green tea also may boost your metabolism, helping you burn off food.
Brew it from leaves (1 teaspoon per cup) or use a green teabag and a peppermint tea bag together to amp up the flavor.
As for white tea -- all tea comes from a white-flowered evergreen called Camellia sinensis. The color depends on how the plant is processed. When the buds are picked while silvery-white, it's white tea. If the leaves are withered and heated, it becomes other types of tea.
Some people maintain that white tea keeps the most disease-fighting flavinoids on tap for use. White, green, or black -- tea beats soda any day!
"There is no perfect food," Horacek reminds us. "You need a variety."
Speaking of which -- we haven't even mentioned peanut butter (good against heart disease and diabetes), apples (just found to benefit the lungs of smokers), tomatoes and watermelon (thought now to fight prostate cancer), sardines (full of omega-3s and calcium) and turmeric (contains curcumin, which is thought to fight tumor growth).
Why waste a bite on a doughnut or piece of gummy white bread, when you could be eating something that goes to work to help you?
Star Lawrence is a medical journalist based in the Phoenix area.
Published Nov. 15, 2004.
SOURCES: Audrey Cross, PhD, professor of public health, Columbia University, New York City. Tanya M. Horacek, PhD, RD, associate professor, Syracuse University
5 Foods to Boost Your Health - Trustworthy, Physician-Reviewed Information from WebMD
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