Tea: a health drink?
it is available anywhere in the world, is inexpensive, easy to prepare and stimulating too. Now, research shows that apart from being a refreshing beverage, tea is also a health drink. At the recently-held India International Millennium Tea Conference in New Delhi, scientists and planters from across the world gathered to, one, exchange their findings on the medicinal value of tea and, two, to promote the cuppa as a health drink in this millennium.
Among other things, tea holds the promise of preventing many other types of cancer including breast and prostrate, says John Weisburger of the American Health Foundation, a non-profit research centre. Weisburger and his colleagues believe that the potential benefit is due to its polyphenols
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