Drinking Tea May Help Lower Risk of Death

[Webster]

The Guardian: Drinking tea may be linked to lower risk of death, study suggests

It is a welcome piece of research for those who regard having a cup of tea as one of life’s everyday pleasures.

A study has suggested that having a brew could be associated with a lower risk of mortality. When compared with those who do not have tea, people who consumed two or more cups each day had between a 9% and 13% lower risk of mortality, researchers said.

The findings, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, suggested the result was the same regardless of whether the person added milk or sugar to their tea, or what their preferred temperature was. The results were also the same regardless of genetic variants affecting the rate at which people metabolise caffeine.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health used data from the UK Biobank, in which 85% of the half a million men and women, aged 40 to 69, reported that they regularly drank tea. Of those, 89% said they drank the black variety. The study was conducted with a questionnaire answered from 2006 to 2010 and followed up over more than a decade.

Fernando Rodriguez Artalejo, a professor of preventive medicine and public health at the Autonomous University of Madrid, described the research as representing “a substantial advance in the field”. He said most studies had been done in Asia, where green tea is the most widely consumed, and that the few outside the continent were “small in size and inconclusive in their results”.

Artalejo said: “This article shows that regular consumption of black tea (the most widely consumed tea in Europe) is associated with a modest reduction in total and, especially, cardiovascular disease mortality over 10 years in a middle-aged, mostly white, adult general population.” He added the study did not definitively establish that tea was the cause of the lower mortality of tea drinkers, because it could not exclude that this was down to other health factors associated with tea consumption.

In November the Guardian reported that drinking coffee or tea may be linked with a lower risk of stroke and dementia, according to the largest study of its kind.

Researchers at Tianjin Medical University in China found that people who consumed two to three cups of coffee or three to five cups of tea a day, or a combination of four to six cups of both drinks, had the lowest risk of stroke or dementia. Those who drank two to three cups of coffee and two to three cups of tea daily had a 32% lower risk of stroke.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Nice! I like tea but I don't drink it regularly. Maybe I should.

 

[Webster]

Enough said.

 

[Smiley]

Oh, great. I'm going to live forever. Damn tea.

 

[Duskpire]

People are always trying to invent new "get healthy" schemes lol. I have learned to live in the moment.

 

[Webster]

People are always trying to invent new "get healthy" schemes

Its' not a scheme when you can back it up with evidence....

The Health Benefits of Tea

Research suggests that tea may offer an array of potential health benefits.

www.eatright.org

Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Black Tea

Black tea offers a variety of health benefits, including improved cholesterol, better gut health and decreased blood pressure. Here are 10 health benefits of black tea, all backed by science.

www.healthline.com

7 Benefits of Hibiscus Tea

From antioxidants to anti-inflammatory effects, a dietitian explains all

health.clevelandclinic.org

 

[Duskpire]

Its' not a scheme when you can back it up with evidence....

I never said I didn't believe you. You're right. The empirical findings is there. I just don't worry about doing diets or anything like that lol

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Oh, great. I'm going to live forever. Damn tea.

 

[Duskpire]

Oh, great. I'm going to live forever. Damn tea.

That reminds me...

 

[DrLeftover]

I'll drink to that.

Oh, damn... they're talking about tea.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

That reminds me...

Good song!

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I'll drink to that.

Oh, damn... they're talking about tea.

I'll take a long island iced TEA

 

[Vaeve]

Thanks, I will never drink tea now. This is all due to you. As soon as I find "X prolongs life" I stop doing that asfasdfsdfsdf.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Thanks, I will never drink tea now. This is all due to you. As soon as I find "X prolongs life" I stop doing that asfasdfsdfsdf.

Being alive prolongs your life

 

[Webster]

Oh, damn... they're talking about tea.

Tea's not that bad, Doc....

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Tea's not that bad, Doc....

Wonder where Doc ran off to. Lets lure him back with some tea booze.