Green tea & Weight loss

Ok, so this month (January) for the US is the National Hot Tea Month,
becoz they did a study show that tea helped weight loss.

Hm…

Some people even suggested that, after having a meal, drink a cup of tea may increase your metabolic rate, which I guess it is true.

But don’t forget in previous entry, it actually didn’t do you good, becoz tea could reduce the absorption of iron & protein from the food that you just have. Totally not good for digestion.

Also, the FDA still hasn’t release or have any report on the number of dose of green tea we could have.
Therefore, there is still a potential risk if drinking too much green tea

Good things about green tea:

- preventing/treating cancer
- stop certain neurodegenerative disease; Alzhemier
- Prevent degradation of cell membrances, i.e free radical
- treat multiple sclerosis, arthristis
- Fight viral infection

So I guess, even though there are studies prove certain things and other studies against those studies…we should never over eating/drinking certain amount of stuff, i.e. orange juice is good for you, but if you drink too much, it is going to be harmful to your body.so…

Tea & Milk

Well, while everybody think that tea is good for you,if without milk
Tea can help prevent cancer and the catechins in the tea will protect you against heart disease
The recent study released this month said that the milk cancel out the benefit of the tea

However, if you add milk into the tea, the protein, caseins in the milk will cancel the catechins in the tea.

Sad….that means now I have to drink English Breakfast tea without milk…how can I eliminate this habit…
they said that real tea drinkers do not add milk…
and the British don’t really add milk into the tea…
Hm..I remembered that adding milk into the tea is what I learned when I lived in UK.

who shouldn’t drink tea … part 2

picture from flickr user – bugandfishes

6. People who have constipation
                       - Catechu would  have a function of astriction or 
                         weaken the movement of your intestine or digestive system,
                        –  increase chances of constipation
7. People who are breast feeding 
                   - may cause the baby to have intestinal spasm and problems in sleeping
8. People who have heart disease – becoz of caffeine
9. Pregnant women

Recent study showed (it was on the NEWS Jan 21,08 that high chances of miscarriage for pregnant women who drink too much caffeine)

10. People who are drunk
                  – alcohol already affect the heart rate, therefore, with caffeine from the tea,
                     it causes  heart rate go faster

So there are still a lot of things to think when drinking tea…

I guess we should be caution of what we put into our mouths, that’s what all the mums always said, mums are always right… 

Who shouldn’t drink tea…Part 1

picture from flickr user – bugandfishes

People who shouldn’t drink tea:

1. People lack of iron
            – Tannic from tea affect the aborption of iron already,
               therefore, it cause more problem to people who are anemia

2. Nervous breakdown/ neurashthenia
              – Caffeine already makes people hyper and increase metabolic rate
                       –> leads problem in sleeping

3. People who have fastric (stomach) ulcer
             - Caffeine would gastric juices and cause more problem in recovery

4.People who have a calculus or stone
               – oxalic acid would increase the number of calculus or stone
5. Problems with liver
               – Caffeine break down in the liver, therefore,
              if you have problems with the liver, it just add more burden and damage to your liver

 

Soooo many things need to concern when drinking tea!!!

Tea & Einstein??

Latest news I read online…
So…..you may wonder how Tea is related to Einstein…
Read the following article…..Click Here

It is about the “tea leaf paradox” that Einstein has proposed…;how come all the tea leaves stay at the centre of the cup…
This inspires scientists to move a step of creating a technology for the blood sample…

If this does happens that means we can get the results of the blood sample even quicker then..
so sad, this thing still need 5-10 years in order to accomplish O___O”‘

Still, you never know how tea can be that “powerful” that would inspire people to have new ideas…
Hm…I guess…
may be should observe life more deeply and carefully….then our generation or next can be more creative….
and probaly begin with a thought that everything has a function and everything is useful