(HealthNewsDigest.com) - This cold and flu season, while those around you are coughing, sneezing and feeling miserable, you might be able to avoid getting sick altogether or at least reduce the number of days you experience symptoms by an average of 36 percent.
A clinical trial completed by researchers at University of Florida and the Nutritional […]

Herbal teas now come with so many health claims that it’s easy to confuse the tea aisle at the supermarket for the pharmacy aisle. But do they really work? For certain ailments, like PMS and anxiety, tea is a great first line of defense. Here, the best brews that have been proved to relieve three […]

When a study in her lab showed that mate (mah’ tā) tea drinkers had experienced a significant increase in the activity of an enzyme that promotes HDL (good) cholesterol while lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol, University of Illinois scientist Elvira de Mejia headed for Argentina where mate tea has been grown and taken medicinally for centuries.
She […]

Green tea is used by the Chinese as a traditional medicine to treat many ailments including acne and to improve general well-being. But does it provide an effective herbal alternative to modern medication?
The answer seems to be ‘Yes’.  There are only two herbal treatments that are known to be effective in treating acne and green […]

16/10/2007 - Tea, seemingly always in the headlines for its potential health benefits, could also offer an interesting source of food preservatives, Chinese researchers report.
Extracts from microbially-fermented Puer tea and Fuzhuan brick-tea have the potential to inhibit several food-borne bacteria, including Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium sporogenes.
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“With the trend of increasing use […]

The Canadian Press
TORONTO — New scientific research suggests that drinking tea may lower an individual’s risk of developing dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
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This data and other new research that suggests drinking tea may improve and maintain brain health and function was presented at the recent Fourth International Scientific Symposium […]

A new study found that older women who are regular tea drinkers may be helping to keep their bones strong.
The Australian study involved 1,500 women over a period of five years.�
Researchers found that elderly women who drank tea had a higher bone density and did not lose as much mineral density from the bones in […]

Tea may help women strengthen their hip bones, preventing the risk of fractures commonly associated with osteoporosis, according to researchers.

The Australian study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was conducted using 1,500 female volunteers, ages 70 to 85, over a five-year period, and tracked the effects of tea consumption on their bone density.
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By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
How refreshing.
Tea, something that people around the world enjoy consuming, might actually be good for you.
“The most fascinating thing is, to my knowledge, there is no other natural product known that has such diversified effects,” says Hasan Mukhtar, vice chair of dermatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Health benefits have been attributed […]

WebMD) Drinking tea may be good for your bones.
A new study shows elderly women who drank tea had higher bone density in their hips and less bone loss than women who didn’t drink tea.
Researchers say the results confirm previous studies that have suggested drinking tea may protect against bone loss and osteoporosis.
In the study, Australian researchers […]