Tea For Dogs

I want some tea

Some guy in England has created tea for dogs. Perhaps I will get some for my dog. He seems to like the idea.

Study looks at green tea for colon cancer prevention

Drinking green tea is generally recognised as heathful, though scientific studies on this have been few. A new trial aims to determine whether green tea can prevent colon cancer -- the biggest such trial in the world to date, according to Thomas Seufferlein, director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Halle University Hospital in Germany and co-head of the research team.

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Darjeeling To Host Tea and Tourism Festival

This December Gorkha Janmukti Morcha will organize Tea and Tourism festival in Darjeeling. The aim of the festival is to aid Darjeeling tourism following the recent earthquake.

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100-year-old runs with tea for fuel

The world's oldest marathon runner has revealed that drinking cups of tea and eating ginger curry, combined with "being happy", has helped him train for 10 miles every day since he turned 100.

Fauja Singh took up marathon running after his 89th birthday and has now completed seven races.

He holds the world record for the men's over-90 category after completing the 2003 Toronto marathon in five hours and 40 minutes.

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Boston Tied For 2nd Place in Experiment Measuring Honesty

OK its not really about the tea but I found it interesting.

Boston - last year's winner of a social experiment by Honest Tea - tied with Seattle and Dallas as the second most honest city in America.

The organic bottled tea company set up a pop-up store by the Prudential Center last Tuesday – in the middle of the heat wave – with bottles of iced tea and a sign asking customers to pay $1 on the honor system. Ninety-seven percent of Bostonians put cash into the transparent, but secure box.

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Could killing cancer be as simple as sipping tea.

Could killing cancer be as simple as sipping tea? Meet a doctor on a mission to replace chemotherapy with something a whole lot more soothing.
First you pour the water. Then you add papaya leaves - then you heat it up and drink it down. If only killing cancer was as simple as sipping tea.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/could-killing-cancer-be-as-simple-as-sipping-tea%3F

Strike by Kenyan Tea Workers Enters Fifth Day

A strike by Kenyan tea-industry workers entered its fifth day today, with labor unions and employers disputing the level of support and the reason for a breakdown in talks. About 20,000 workers are on strike. The strike continued after managers failed to attend a meeting scheduled for yesterday.

World's Largest Cup of Tea Brewed in Sri Lanka

It took more than 5 hours to brew the world's largest cup of tea in Sri Lanka on Saturday. 1,000 gallons of water. 140 pounds of tea. 350 pounds of sugar. Mmmmmmmm Good.

Mixing Scotch whisky with Darjeeling tea

Although willing to experiment with exotic flavours Indians still prefer drinks with an Indian touch, even if it means having an unorthodox cocktail of Scotch whisky and Darjeeling tea, says an international whisky connoisseur."A cocktail made by mixing whisky with tea is catching up fast in India.

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Honest Tea launches beverage with stevia

Honest Tea has launched Passion Fruit Green Tea with Maqui Berry. The ready-to-drink organic beverage is sweetened with stevia. Read More

A cup of tea a day may reduce risk of ovarian cancer'

Women who drink a single cup every day are ten per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who never drink tea. Those drinking two cups a day or more see a slightly greater benefit, with their cancer risk reduced by about 12 to 13 per cent.
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How Long Should I Steep My Tea???

If you want to know how long to steep your tea just go to Steep.it. It is a chart of tea-steeping times and temperatures. It's free.

The perfect cream tea

I like the sound of this....

THERE are hundreds of ways to assemble a cream tea, but no clear rules on what works best. Not that it doesn’t matter. Don’t imagine that a cream tea is just a frivolous summer treat to enjoy in the garden. It is a serious thing, one that recently prompted sparks to fly between Cornwall and Devon as both counties claim ownership. Each says the cream tea is its own speciality. Meanwhile, dairy farmers, bakers, tea growers and jam-makers across the country have their own ideas about how it should be put together. Some things are clear: Time should be set aside for this mid-afternoon feast and only the finest ingredients should be used. Almost everything else is up for debate.


The tea Although it takes only 36 hours from plant to cup, the process is labour intensive. First the leaves are hand-plucked by a team of a dozen or so tea-pickers — they take the top two leaves and the bud, leaving the rest of the plant. Then the leaves are left on withering racks to go dry and floppy before being hand-rolled. Most of what we drink in Britain has been rolled by machine, but some prefer the time-honoured method of doing it between your palms — it takes one person half an hour to roll a couple of kilos of tea. It ruptures the leaves better, releasing the chemicals so that they can react with each other. Hand-rolled tea has the best flavour. Finally the leaves are left out to be oxidised for a few hours, then dried at a low temperature in an electric oven.

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Unreasonably Hot Tea

A woman is suing Starbucks for serving “unreasonably hot” tea, causing her second degree burns.

Victoria Beckham drinks tea for weight loss

Known for her trendy diets, Victoria Beckham is on a new diet. Drinking tea for weight loss, Beckham is reportedly sipping Pu-erh tea to lose weight and keep her slimline figure.

Kind Of Funny

I Drink Tea, and Yes, I Am Totally Less of a Man

Tea In A Tube

The Tea Tube Infuser by RSVP International is constructed of stainless steel and polycarbonate plastic. The perforations on the tube allow for full 360-degree infusing. With the elongated shape of the tube, loose-leaf tea has more area exposed to hot water than that of a spherical steeper.

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Make Your Tea With A Yellow Submarine

The TeaSub is a cool little submarine made of silicone. It submerges your tea leaves, and it looks kind of cool.
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Green Tea Extract May Treat Uterine Fibroids

An extract from green tea may be useful in treating uterine fibroids, a condition that affects 25%-30% of U.S. women, new research indicates.
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Green Tea May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk

Studies indicate that regular consumption of green tea may slow or prevent conditions including high cholesterol, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, impaired immune disease and liver disease. In addition, some studies have indicated green tea may have cancer-fighting properties, lowering the rate of gastric, esophageal, and mouth cancers. And this week researchers reported that Taiwanese smokers who consumed one cup of green tea each day significantly reduced their chances of developing lung cancer.

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