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My Abstaining from Tea for a Day..

Tea is the best cup/starter to start a day ahead of you. I often start the day with breakfast tea with my breakfast. Tea truly perk me up so that i can face the long busy day ahead.

I decided to have milo with dark chocolate powder for a change and decided to abstain from drinking tea for a whole day. I usually drink 3 or 4 teas a day to keep me sane.

What an incurable habit!!!!!.....Time ticking away and my eyes struggle to stay open to do work. Ahem....Suddenly lethergic creeps in and my mind started to slow down. Ohhh..dear..i kept on telling myself not to take tea.

Lunch hour.....I dashed out of office...Opzzz..Did i drink any ice lemon tea for my lunch? Dragon fruit with honey is out of the world....It simply taste good.Crumb my craving.

Another half day to go till i met up with 2 friends to exchange the pointers on photography. I almost wanted to order teh-o but refrained from it. Lime juice to end the dinner well.

So lethergic after the whole day without tea. I am tea lover that have this incurable habit. LOve tea....Finally i gave myself a treat by having a morning tea the next day. Bottoms up.

Facts about Green Tea (Best to drink it)

The active ingredient in green tea, catechin, has also been found to outperform Vitamin C and beta-carotene ten times in scavenging the alkyl peroxyl radical. One study found green tea polyphenols to be more potent antioxidants than Vitamin C, Vitamin E, rosemary extract, and even curcumin in some systems.

According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, in laboratory studies using animals, catechins scavenged oxidants before cell damage occurred, reduced the number and size of tumors, and inhibited the growth of cancer cells. White tea is said to be even more effective. However, human studies have proven more contradictory, perhaps due to such factors as variances in diet, environments, and populations

Benefits of drinking green tea

Prevents Cavities
Green Tea contains fluorine that helps prevent cavities and strengthens teeth. Green Tea is also said to be able to kill oral bacteria that may cause bad breath.

Cancer
Breast cancer A recent Japanese study explored in greater detail the epidemiological findings on green tea's protection against breast cancer. In this case, women with stage I, II and III breast cancer were assessed in terms of their green tea consumption. It was found that "premenopausal women who consumed more green tea had a lower number of lymph node metastases. In postmenopausal women greater consumption of green tea correlated with increased expression of the estrogen and progesterone receptor, which implies more differentiated tumor cells and better prognosis." Finally, in a seven-year follow it was found that "women with stage I or II cancer who consumed five or more cups of green tea a day had approximately half the recurrence rate of those women who consumed four cups or less." Researchers at the Department of Surgery, Division of Oncology and. Center for Human Nutrition, University of California found that Inhibition of VEGF transcription appeared to be one of the molecular mechanism(s) involved in the antiangiogenic effects of green tea, which may contribute to its potential use for breast cancer treatment and/or prevention.

Heart

Since blood sugar tends to increase with age, accelerating aging by cross-linking with proteins (glycation), the ability of green tea to lower serum glucose levels is extremely important as part of its anti-aging benefits. Some would argue that tea's ability to lower blood sugar, and thus insulin levels and glycation, is its most important anti-aging property. A study comparing the effects of 75-day feeding of green tea and black tea to aged rats found that green tea lowered blood sugar only slightly better than black tea (23.9% vs 22.8%), but was markedly superior in reducing triglycerides (33.3% vs 25%; high triglycerides are strongly associated a high risk of cardiovascular disease). A low ratio of triglycerides to HDL is an excellent marker of cardiovascular health. Black tea, however, was a better inducer of superoxide dismutase (SOD; the activity of SOD was 117% higher in the black tea group vs. control, as compared to 90.8% higher in the green tea group), and a better blocker of the harmful malondialdehyde, a byproduct of lipid peroxidation (black tea reduced it by 34.6%; green tea by 25.4%). The authors' conclusion that black tea is a more powerful antioxidant in vivo needs to be confirmed by other studies.

posted by citrusby @ 4/13/2006 10:30:00 PM