Green tea has received much attention for its various health benefits, but recent research commissioned by the Tea Advisory Panel (TAP) draws more attention to its more commonly known relative – black tea.
In a research paper already scheduled for publication, a spokesperson from the TAP dietician Dr. Carry Ruxton announced that black tea has some impressive health-promoting properties of its own. According to Ruxton, the flavonoids found in black tea have “potent antibacterial properties.”
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New research revealed in a recent article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry demonstrates that some compounds in green tea possess powerful properties that may hold great potential in developing treatments for two types of tumors as well as a congenital disease.
The research centered on glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), one of the enzymes responsible for the breakdown of amino acids, the loss of which in some patients suffering from a congenital disease called hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia (HHS) leads to severe hypoglycemia and often death.
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A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition adds yet more evidence to the growing body of research that suggests that drinking green tea may positively impact a person’s risks for coronary artery disease.
A comprehensive review of scientific literature – which produced a compilation of a total of 13 studies on black tea and five studies on green tea – revealed that there was an obvious inverse relationship between green tea consumption and the occurrence of coronary artery disease.
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Drinking at least six cups of coffee every day may help reduce the risk of contracting advanced prostate cancer by as much as 60% according to a recent study, the first to look at the relationship between coffee and metastatic prostate cancer.
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Women seeking to become pregnant may want to avoid coffee, according to a number of studies that linked delayed conception with drinking as little as 474 milliliters (about two cups) of coffee a day. Researchers from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno have now found that the smooth muscles of the Fallopian tubes are prevented from contracting by caffeine, making it difficult for the eggs to travel from the ovaries to the womb.
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Catechins may play a role in reducing the formation of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) in the oral cavity according to a study reported in the Journal of Dental Research. The researchers concluded that the green tea catechin epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg) serves to prevent the formation of methyl mercaptan, a VSC that produces the bad smell associated with halitosis, by inhibiting a gene found in common oral bacteria.
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The health benefits found in green tea are affected by changes in temperature and humidity, according to researcher said Lisa Mauer, a professor of food science, is a report published on the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry’s website.
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Japanese scientists have suggested that green tea may reduce risk of thyroid cancer in postmenopausal women. The study, which was published in the May edition of Cancer Causes Control, indicated that thyroid cancer diagnosis in postmenopausal women that consumed at least five cups of green tea daily was 53% less likely compared with those that took one or less cups a day
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Dr. d. Raghunatha Rao, the convener of the Dietary Guidelines Committee, has declared that drinking tea immediately after a meal is inadvisable as the tannin found in it interferes with the absorption of iron. His findings were included in a report entitled Dietary guidelines for Indians prepared by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).
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A report issued by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health in the US, has identified enhanced anti-cancer properties in white tea compared to green tea.
“Although white tea comes from the same plant as green and black teas (Camellia sinensis), white tea goes through much less processing, resulting in a higher concentration of polyphenols, accprding the the report. “While this study builds on previous laboratory research suggesting that tea — in particular, green tea — may have anti-tumor effects for certain cancers, there is no evidence yet that this laboratory research can be extended to treatments in people.”
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