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BACK TO TEA BUREAU CONNECTIONS SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEA HOUSE TIMES The Tea House Times Welcome to The Tea House Times~Tea Health BLOG with Daniel Gastelu ~ Read Entries Below Also visit our Hear All About It BLOG about The Tea House Times with Lady Gayle~ Click Here. This is a Web Log or BLOG. What is that? Blog is short for Web log which is a web page with personal entries similar to a journal. This can be periodic articles or sharing of personal experiences or particular business related information. KEEP VISITING Scroll down for Dan's latest entries. Don't forget to join our email list! Click here for info. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEA HOUSE TIMES! Daniel Gastelu’s Tea Health BlogThis Tea Health Blog is intended to report about the recent scientific research about tea and health benefits. For comprehensive information about Tea and Health you may purchase the Tea Health Guide e-book here at The Tea House Times Gift Shoppe or get one free with your paid subscription to The Tea House Times. The most recent edition of the Tea Health Guide is only available in an e-book format. Click here to visit the Gift Shoppe. Click here for more about Tea & Health and read below. Click here for more about Dan.
May 2, 2006 Blog Entry While the health benefits of drinking green tea are well established, these researchers sought to determine specifically if drinking green tea produced nervous system health benefits. The primary objective of this research study was therefore to examine if there is an association between green tea consumption and cognitive function among human research subjects.
In this study the researchers evaluated cognitive function among a group of existing research subjects that were part of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment study. The subjects consisted of 1003 Japanese adults, age 70 or older. Their frequency of tea consumption was determined based on a self-administered questionnaire. Cognitive function was determined using a widely accepted examination method.
The results of this study indicated that there was a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment (dysfunction or disease) with higher consumption of green tea. In other words, the people who drank more green tea had healthier mental function. The people who drank at least 2 cups a day of green tea were likely to have better mental health status, when compared to people who drank less green tea.
Study Reference: Green tea consumption and
cognitive function: a cross-sectional study from the Tsurugaya Project 1. Study
by S. Kuriyama, et al. Published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2006
Feb;83(2):355-61. By
Shinichi Kuriyama, Atsushi
Hozawa, Kaori Ohmori, Taichi Shimazu, Toshifumi Matsui, Satoru Ebihara, Shuichi
Awata, Ryoichi Nagatomi, Hiroyuki Arai and Ichiro Tsuji BACK TO TOPFor comprehensive information about Tea and Health, you may purchase the Tea Health Guide, updated in 2006.Here is the contents overview and a sample from Chapter 1TEA HEALTH GUIDE Buy now.ByDaniel GasteluGail GasteluCONTENTS
Introduction
Tea has been a prized beverage for thousands of years. Its accolades include being the most consumed beverage in the world, after water. Well known for its stimulatory effects, it was not until recently that the health benefits of tea became acknowledged by the Western medical community.
During the past few decades the scientific studies documenting the health benefits of tea have grown tremendously. With this growth of new knowledge, however, some confusion has perhaps occurred due to articles reporting about the different kinds of benefits associated with drinking tea. For example, in the past several years the growing list of health benefits of drinking tea include:
Cancer prevention. Free Radical protection. Anti-inflammatory action. Reduction of cardiovascular diseases. Reduction of certain gastrointestinal infections. Weight Loss. Reduction of dental caries. Promotion of bone health. Eye health. Beautiful Skin. And so on …
So is tea a proverbial cure all, or prevent all, as the case may be?
The answer is yes to some, maybe to some more, and not sure yet to others. But what is certain is that tea is an all around healthy drink that has a long history of use as a daily health beverage. As the body of scientific research continues to develop, indications are good that tea does indeed have the ability to prevent diseases and benefit your health in many ways.
In this updated 2006 edition you will be informed about what the most recent medical studies report about the growing number of health benefits attributed to drinking tea. However, to reiterate a previous important point, this is for information and education purposes only. You need to consult your doctor for proper diagnosis and treatment of any disease.
Demystifying the Health Benefits of Tea
Scientists are seeking answers to the health benefits of tea by understanding what the substances are in tea that can be responsible for promotion of good health. Demystifying the health effects of natural foods is usually an arduous task, which requires applying the scientific method to its limits. The complicating factor when dealing with natural substances is that they typically contain a variety of bioactive chemicals, referred to as biochemicals.
When it comes to health promoting foods, the scientific process usually begins when a beneficial health trend is detected at the population level by scientists versed in a branch of public health science called epidemiology. These scientists are referred to as epidemiologists. Part of their work includes detecting health trends in populations, both health promoting and disease causing. Once a trend is detected, then this motivates other types of scientists to begin to study various aspects of how the food or substances from the food benefit health.
In the case of tea, epidemiologists have determined that drinking tea has been associated with benefiting health; in particular, possibly reducing the incidence of certain diseases; cancers and cardiovascular diseases, for example. This usually leads to other scientists looking at the substances in tea, and still others taking tea and subjecting it to various test tube and animal testing to sort out what the bioactive tea substances are, and how they work to benefit health. Toxicologists also jump in to determine if there are any substances that are harmful and what the safe levels of intake are. Then other scientists start to conduct intervention studies on people. Intervention studies seek to measure the outcome over a long period of time, usually a few to several years.
In the case of tea, an intervention study might be designed to see what happens when half of the research subjects drink several cups of tea, versus the other half of people not drinking any tea. Over the years of the research study, if tea was indeed beneficial to health, the researchers might start observing that the tea drinkers develop fewer diseases.
At today’s point in the research process, there have been hundreds of various types of studies conducted on tea. At this point in time, the body of research is still evolving, and far from conclusive, visa vi absolute confirmation of the health benefits of tea by numerous long-term intervention studies. This guide, therefore, is written to provide you with an overview of key research findings about the health benefits of tea. It is written for a diversified readership, including the tea enthusiast and medical or scientific professionals. So, when you come across technical language that is seemingly incomprehensible, don’t fret over it.
This technical information was included to provide scientific evidence in support of the health benefits of tea. For the health professional, a reference section is included at the end of this guide, which includes dozens of scientific study references for those readers who are interested in reading the research for themselves. Also, please note that this guide is not intended to provide a comprehensive thesis about the background of tea or its processing.
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