Make Tea Not War

Vanilla Apricot White Tea! Add some soy creamer and yumm!

Green Tea of course!

Chai Tea with Cinnamon! Mmm!

Snapple Mango Tea! A favorite fruit of mine.

Asian Pear Iced Tea! Crisp and delightful! Another favorite fruit

Thai Iced Tea!

Set your Sites on Tea!

Visit TeaAppreciationSociety.org for tea, tea themed products and more!

I've discovered it's an amazing site!

Recent research shows that any tea derived from camellia sinensis has cancer fighting properties. The leaves of this plant contain chemicalscalled polyphenols, which gives tea its antioxidant properties.

Polyphenols in tea have been known to:

-Help protect cells from the normal, but damaging, physiological process known as "oxidative stress." Although oxygen is vital to life, it's also incorporated into reactive substances called free radicals. These can damage the cells in our body and have been implicated in the slow chain reaction of damage leading to heart disease and cancer.

-Help prevent blood clotting

-Help lower cholestorol levels

-Help neutralize enzymes that aid the growth of tumors

-Help deactivate cancer promoters

-Help stimulate the immune system

Tea also has fluroide for strong teeth, virtually no calories, and half the amount of cafeeine found in an equally sized cup of coffee. Whether decaffeinated tea has the same level of polyphenols, and thus the same health benefits, as regular tea has not yet been studied (Man they need to get on that one!) .

Apart from polyphenols, tea also contains a variety of ingredients that are beneficial to one's health. These include theanine (an amino acid unique to tea), vitamines, minerals, and methylxanthines. These are the components that are the source of the healthful properties of tea.

These are known to:

-Help fight against mutagenic agents
-Delay aging
-Help fight high blood pressure
-Help fight against viral and bacterial infection