Tea drinkers enjoy possible health benefits, study suggests

Higher tea intake — two or more cups daily — was linked to a modest benefit: a 9% to 13% lower risk of death from any cause vs. non-tea drinkers. 

Not so modest a benefit when compared with other measures that call for much more difficult life style changes like exercise or diet.

Green tea catechin stops the covid virus too

On cells, and without a demonstrable effect on the main process used by the SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells by the ACE2 receptor. And specially requiring up to one hour of treating the virus with 10-20ug of the main compound will mean that maybe viruses included in your tea would be less infective, but no effect would be observed by drinking the tea and the getting exposed to the viruses elsewhere.

Hmmm, so next time some idiot criticises my six cups a day habit I can tell them to piss off.

“I like tea. It’s great to drink. But a cautious interpretation seems like a good idea.”

I'll go with this (as a tea swilling Brit).

I like tea, but I've overdosed on green tea and got very sick. Guess I'm allergic to something inside.

Tea has been seen as healthy for thousands of years because humans boiled the water to make it, killing pathogens, so it was safer than other drinks. Until germ theory, we didn't know this. Even today, we use boiling water to make it safe to drink. Addition of different leaves to impart a little flavor is useful since some water still has a bad taste/smell even when it is safe enough to drink. Tea is a light, small, way to have flavoring for our water.

Nearly every morning, I put 40oz of very hot water into a thermos and drop in 2 herbal tea paks to steep. No caffeine. That lasts into early afternoon. I used to drink coffee, but that all changed after my first trip to Japan in the 1990s. I do enjoy a nice cup of British Breakfast Tea (why do they call it British?), but herbal tea is more cost effective here.

Tea can be part of a healthy diet and people who drink tea may even be a little more likely to live longer than those who don't, according to a large study.

Studies in the past have shown the same. Then they don't. Then they do.

Scientists from the U.S. National Cancer Institute asked about the tea habits of nearly a half million adults in the United Kingdom,

Maybe the tea campaign should go out to the 31% of adults in the England who are clinically obese.

Not so modest a benefit when compared with other measures that call for much more difficult life style changes like exercise or diet.

This is an incorrect interpretation because the comparison in the study is with non-tea drinkers, and there is no data for "more difficult life style changes".

Virus lover rex not sure if there are any long enough clinical trials that explains that tea is really better than water???

https://nutritionfacts.org/?s=tea will show research-based summaries for tea studies, interpreted by a doctor, who believes that double-blind studies are necessary for all valid science for what we should eat/drink. He's fond of saying that media summaries get the true outcomes from studies wrong and that only properly conducted studies are valid.

Hibiscus, green and black tea seem to have the most studies.

Green tea studies have shown multiple times that infusing a dark green leafy fruit (green tea) into water and consistently drinking it is good for nearly everyone. Studies prove that a few infections are either removed or reduced over 60% by drinking green tea.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-green-tea-for-boosting-antiviral-immune-function/

One tea might not be safe during pregnancy.

For the same reason aspirin should be avoided in pregnancy, chamomile has such powerful anti-inflammatory properties that regular consumption may result in a serious fetal heart problem—premature constriction of the fetal ductus arteriosus, which allows the fetus to “breathe” in the womb.

Ref: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/chamomile-tea-may-not-be-safe-during-pregnancy/ The video references a proper study.

So, chamomile is helpful for people who are NOT pregnant for the anti-inflammatory aspects.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-healthiest-herbal-tea/ ... they are all "healthy", so the one you like and drink is probably the best. Top 5 herbal teas are chamomile, dandelion, lemongrass, rooibos, and rosehip. I really like vanilla and peppermint, so sad. ;( Dandelion is the best, according to some Korean researchers. I find that rooibos tastes like dirt, but lots of people probably enjoy it.

Maybe tea drinkers are more likely to be more sensible over issues like salt, fat, sugar and alcohol consumption, and perhaps they exercise a bit more.

I drink both black tea and matcha daily. Fruit/herbal teas taste vile to me and I stopped drinking coffee in my teens as it gave me migraines. I don't drink alcohol as I never 'acquired the taste for it'. It didn't taste pleasant so I didn't bother with it. Stuff like 'peer pressure', which usually leads to toxic habits, never worked on me. I have always gone my own way.

Matcha is loaded with antioxidants to the point of being a 'superfood', so is a good option for improved health. If you have friends who have never tasted it, it makes a good gift.

Drinking water to properly hydrate yourself is the easiest and cheapest way to improve your health. Your pee should be pale straw coloured if you are adequately hydrated. If it is darker, you might need to drink a bit more water each day. A bit of exercise each day will help too. You don't have to run marathons or join a gym. Just find an exercise routine that you can fit into your day. If you are shy about doing it in public, do it at home. After a couple of weeks you might find that you sleep better and don't get tired or breathless so easily. Try to find both upper body and lower body routines.