Men that drink more than two cups of tea daily are trimmer than those that don’t, according to a study presented at the First International Congress on Abdominal Obesity. Researchers examined the relationship between coffee and tea drinking and abdominal obesity in 3,823 adults who participated in the 2003-2004 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Previous studies have looked at coffee and tea drinking habits and obesity in general, but little is known about how these habits affect abdominal obesity.

"The potential association between coffee and tea and abdominal obesity is not trivial considering that more than 60% of the adult population drinks coffee and tea, that these beverages can be consumed as frequently as 10 times per day, and that a high percentage of coffee and tea drinkers use additives in these beverages," according to D. R. Bouchard and colleagues at the school of kinesiology and health studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Unfortunately, women do not appear to benefit in the same way as men, so don’t throw away those diet books yet ladies...