The Health Benefits Of Black Tea

Like all tea, the health benefits of black tea focus on the same areas. Since black tea comes from the same Camellia sinensis plant as does all tea, we can expect it to have similar benefits like green and white teas.

However, since more research is done on green tea concerning health benefits, it is easy to believe that green is the only tea that offers the greater of them...this simply isn't true!

The health benefits of black tea are the same as its green tea cousin. Black tea research done shows us the same promises/results we get from green tea, we can consume from a cup of black.

Although green tea since it is less processed has more antioxidant properties than black tea, these differences are not off the charts.

The studies and benefits:

• new research done by Milton Schiffenbauer of Pace University suggests that drinking either green or black tea can help wipe out viruses in your mouth, (like herpes), and also help prevent diarrhea, pneumonia, cystitis, and skin infections. He states that these teas "deactivate" such viruses.
• studies done at Rutgers University reveal that black tea may help prevent stomach, prostate, and breast cancer. The chemicals found in black tea show it may slow down cancer growth. A compound called TF-2 causes such cancer cells to "commit suicide" while normal cells remain unaffected.

  Dr. Kuang Yu Chen of Rutgers states that TF-2 has very interesting properties for fighting color cancer cells. His team revealed that when normal cells were exposed to the TF-2 compound, nothing happened, but when cancer cells were exposed they underwent a process called "apoptosis programmed cell death" and were destroyed.

  The antioxidant compound TF-2 can also help abate inflammation as well.

• black tea can also help prevent heart attack and stroke by saving arteries. In a test done by Dr. Joseph Vita, of the Boston University School of Medicine, he had some heart patients drink plain water, and the others black tea. After a month, the patients who drank the tea showed impaired blood vessel functioning had improved by 50%!

  In a related 10 year study done in the Netherlands, men who consumed 3 cups of black tea daily decreased their chances by 50% of dying from heart disease.

• More health benefits of black tea are, helps prevent tooth decay, can lower cholestrol, act as an arthritis soother, and may help folks burn fat.


These health benefits of black tea are interesting, but scientists insist that more research on both animals and humans need to be conducted to help broaden and solidify these claims.

The future, however, looks promising as more and more health benefits of tea are released each week. The world of tea drinking is delightful on both the enjoyment and health aspects front.

I know that I will enjoy tea for the rest of my life; I'll never get bored of it, and who knows, it may help me live longer too!





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Green Tea Health Benefits
A Look At White Tea
Oolong Tea And Weight Loss



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