The Health Benefits of Tea

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The health benefits of tea have been touted for centuries. Recently, given tea's growing popularity, its healthy properties seem to be grabbing media headlines once again. New scientific studies touting the healthy properties of tea seem to be everywhere.

We were not about to claim that tea will help you lose weight, prevent your arteries from clogging, or cure Alzheimers. But we will say that tea makes us feel good. leaf tea is a completely natural product, so there's no articifical preservatives, coloring or chemicals (unless you're drinking the bottled stuff, or flavored tea). All the research that's been conducted on tea, whether it is conclusive or not, share a common theme — if consumed in sensible quantities, tea has been shown to have some positive healthy benefits in some cases.

We drink tea because it tastes good and makes us feel good. And we think it will make you feel
good.

The basis for all the buzz about tea's healthy properties are polyphenols. Phenols are basically a chemical compound that are found in many plants, including tea. Get a whole bunch of phenols together, and you've got polyphenols.

The thing that makes polyphenols so healthy is that they are thought to be powerful antioxidants. Antioxidants are basically chemicals that reduce oxidative damage to cells. Medical researchers have found a high correlation between oxidative damage and the occurrence of disease. Their research suggests that consumption of antioxidant-rich foods reduces damage to cells and biochemicals from free radicals. That's something that most scientists agree upon.
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