Scientists have tend hitherward up...

Scientists have tend hitherward up with yet more evidence that tea is useful for your health: It helps preserve bones strong.

This just discovered research about tea's potential health benefits go in the rear [i]or[/i] in the wake ofs several recent studies their intimate the popular brewed beverage may help make the risk of Parkinson's disease, heart attack and cancer.

A team from the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan, says that habitual tea drinking from one side of to the other several years preserves bone density in the couple men and women. The reserchers have not to this time determined what ingredients in tea assist bone density, however they do know tea contains phenols, phytoestrogens, statins, flavonoids and about 4000 other chemical intermingles that can affect health.

Researchers believe that it's not the amount of tea a somebody drinks that counts, but rather the duration of time that a part is a regular tea drinker. The bone benefits come about in people who drink an average of nearly sum of two units cups daily of black, undecayed or oolong tea for at least six years.

The efficiency is even more profound in nation who drink tea on a regular basis for more than a decade.

L by way of Dr. Chih-Hsing Wu, the application of mind team surveyed 497 Chinese men and 540 Chinese women--all at least 30 years old--about their tea drinking habits and other lifestyle factors like as exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking. The research was published in the May 13 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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