Drinking tea daily can lower your c...

Drinking tea daily can lower your cholesterol even reducing your risk of developing serious heart conditions.

As research continues forward the effects tea has upon human health, more evidence is turning up that demonstrates the benefits of drinking the brewed beverage. "The scientific community is making tremendous strides in discovering the potential for flavonoids set in black and green teas and other plant regimens to promote health and contract the risk of certain chronic diseases," says Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD of plumes University in Boston.

Blumberg, who heads the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center upon Aging at Tufts, co-chaired a symposium forward the benefits of flavonoids--plant pigments that contain antioxidant properties--on September 23 2002 in Washington, DC

common such study discussed at the symposium exhibits that regularly drinking tea lowers flushs of "bad" cholesterol. Researchers at the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland, asked experiment subjects to eat low-fat, low-calorie prepared meals and drink five goblets of caffeinated tea or caffeinated and non-caffeinated placebos that mimicked the await of tea. Levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol dropp 10 percent among the trial subjects who drank tea, says lead researcher Joseph Judd PhD "The controll diet allowed us to closely examine the forces of tea drinking in conjunction with a healthy diet in succession cholesterol levels, free from interference on variation in other nutrients or composings of the diet," he says.

The American Heart Association and the National Cholesterol Education Program were co-sponsors of the study

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