Tea and diabetes

People who drink more coffee or tea, regardless of whether it's caffeinated, seem to have a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes compared with people who don't drink any of the beverages, new research suggests.

Tea Is Up

The price of tea has jumped because of supply shortages and robust demand. This will bring higher retail prices early next year, according to analysts. Coffee and orange juice prices have also risen to their highest level in more than a year. The shortages are due to bad weather and a persistent lack of investment.

Green Tea And Gum Disease

A cup of green tea per day may help keep gum disease at bay, a new study suggests.


Read More

Climate change causing havoc to tea farmers

Climate change is already wreaking havoc on the livelihoods of small-scale tea and coffee farmers in some of the world's poorest countries, according to a three-year research project by Fairtrade drinks producer Cafédirect.

Research across four countries – Kenya, Mexico, Peru and Nicaragua – carried out with the state-funded German Technical Corporation, showed that growers are already being forced uphill to higher altitudes, at a rate of three to four metres a year on average, as temperatures rise. "A huge number of growers are now experiencing increased instances of pestilence and disease from rises in temperature. They are also facing prolonged drought and changing weather patterns," said Cafédirect chief executive, Anne MacCaig.


Read More

The Green Tea Wrinkle Cure

German researchers have coupled high-intensity light-emitting diode exposure with a lotion made of green tea extract to create a wrinkle-fighting treatment they say could replace invasive cosmetic procedures.

Loop-the-Loop tea stunt

A Royal Air Force corporal injured in Iraq has completed a challenge to hold on to a mug of tea while a passenger in a plane flying loop-the-loops.Tea Stunt

Going to London For Tea

An interesting story about having Tea in London. Read More

Kerry Katona Tea Attack

Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona was arrested after a Tea attack against her accountant. She was questioned on suspicion of committing assault, criminal damage and a public order offence, police said.

Poppy Tea A Bad Idea.

A man was found dead in Colorado on Tuesday morning, and authorities suspect poppy tea may be the cause. According to medical sources, poppy tea can cause heart attacks and respiratory failures. The consumption of poppy tea also known as opium tea seems to be growing in the USA.

Tea is making a comeback

The UK Tea Council claims that the tea market is expected to grow by about three percent this year

Tea sales are making a comeback after declining for decades as evidence emerges about its health benefits.

On the down side the rising demand for tea has driven up the prices by between 15 and 20 percent this year.

Does tea affect iron levels?

I found this story about the affect of Tea on iron levels in the news paper and found it interesting. I can say from personal experience that drinking more than 3 cups of tea a day has a negative effect on the way I feel.

Does tea affect iron levels?

Worried About Prostate Cancer

Are you worried about prostate cancer? Drink green tea. A new study shows that green tea may slow the progression of prostate cancer. Researchers from Louisiana State University found a significant reduction in the levels of several growth factors that promote cancer as well as reductions in prostate specific antigen, a marker of cancer growth. Read More

Man Cures Swine Flu With Tea

Their is a news story making its way around the world about a man who drank tea to get over swine flu. Read More About Tea And Swine Flu

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

"Steeped in History: The Art of Tea," on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA from Aug. 16 through Nov. 29, is a wide-ranging exhibition that brings together centuries of art from three continents to delve into the history and culture of tea.

Read More

Green Tea And Stroke

Want to stave off the risk of an ischemic stroke? Sip a cup of green tea, at least once a week, says a new study.

Read More

Tea cuts the risk of heart attack

A survey, commissioned by the Tea Advisory Panel and published in the journal Nutrition and Food Science, revealed that four cups a day significantly cuts the risk of a heart attack, makes you more alert, keeps hydration at a healthy optimal level and even improves your mood.

Loose Leaf Tea ‘On The Go’

New… Libre…a tea glass specifically designed for loose leaf tea ‘on the go’. In the car, on a hike, at the office, on your bike, at a yoga class, wherever you happen to be.…take your Libre tea glass along with you. Carry it in your backpack or purse, and just add hot water to enjoy your favourite loose leaf tea.



Libre

The only working tea farm in the U.S.A.

I found this story about the only working tea farm in the U.S.A.and thought I would pass it on....

This whole operation boils down to something sweetly simple. More basic than the golden-brown nectar that drips from restaurant-sized taps inside the gift shop or even the lulling tree-lined drive down Maybank Highway to arrive here.

"Two leaves and a bud," says Bill Hall, no doubt for the umpteenth time, as he plucks a sprig from the edge of the green 127-acre expanse that is the Charleston Tea Plantation.

The idyllic farm, the only one of its kind in the U.S., reopened in 2006 after a four-year hiatus. In 2002, the gift shop doors closed, the visitor tours ceased and American Classic Tea abruptly disappeared from local grocery store shelves.

"We just cut it and left it," Hall remembers.

What happened off the fields during that time involved legal filings, a court-ordered sale of the property and the biggest name in specialty teas. But since then, Hall says, just about everything around here has doubled, from the amount of tea produced to the number of visitors touring the fields.


Read More

WWI Graves of UK, Australian Soldiers Found

Excavators near a rural village in northern France began work Tuesday unearthing the remains of as many as 400 long-lost Australian and British soldiers who perished in World War I.

The remains, buried in a cluster of mass graves discovered in 2008, are to be individually reinterred in a cemetery being built near the site.

Read More

“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”

According to tea industry lore, the Earl Grey blend was virtually unknown in the United States until the advent of Star Trek: Next Generation, which introduced viewers to Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Read More