Enviga green tea wont burns calories

Coca-Cola Co. and its partner Nestle agreed to pay $650,000 in a settlement with 27 states over claims that Enviga green tea burns calories, resulting in weight loss.

The Attorney General stated Thursday said the companies Coca-Cola Co. and its partner Nestle claimed that drinking their Enviga beverage, an artificially sweetened green tea soda, boosted metabolism and burned more calories than the product contained, resulting in weight loss.

The companies agreed to re-label Enviga to add disclosures and disclaim weight-loss benefits, Any marketing of Enviga or a similar beverage that uses the terms "the calorie burner," "negative calories" or "drink negative" must clearly disclose that the product doesn't lead to weight loss without diet and exercise.

Used Tea Bags Have Second Use

Instead of tossing tea bags in the trash, think about their recyclable use.

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HEALING HERBS: Bush tea – a drink to good health

I found this story online today and thought it was worth passing on.

HEALING HERBS: Bush tea – a drink to good health

INVIGORATING. Refreshing. Healing. With those words I describe bush teas, which are not as popular as they used to be a few generations back.

However, I am happy to report that the art of making good bush tea is not extinct. I've come across a number of bush-tea drinkers and I still make and drink the brews, using flowers, leaves, stems, barks and roots.

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World Tea Sales Up

The resent economic melt down has not hat that much impact on tea sales. This is likely do to a number of reasons. The most likely being that drinking tea is a relaxing experience that makes people feel better when things are bad. You can enjoy sitting at home sipping a cup of tea and let your worries fade away. At least for a few moments.

Green Tea May Interfere With Some Cancer Drugs

Some components in green tea may prevent the drug Velcade, a widely used cancer agent also called bortezomib, from killing cancerous tumor cells, according to researchers from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

In lab studies scientists evaluated the impact of green tea compounds on the efficacy of bortezomib against multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, and glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor.

Velcade normally fights cancer by inducing tumor cell death. However scientits were surprised to find that some of the green tea polyphenols and other components actually prevented bortezomib from killing tumor cells.

While green tea components appear to interfere with the ability of Velcade to combat cancer, other cancer-fighting drugs may not be affected. According to the study green tea is a proven beneficial herb that has been shown to improve the anticancer effects of other drugs.

Hibiscus tea could help blood pressure

Just three cups of hibiscus tea a day were shown to reduce the blood pressure of people at risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney disease.

Hibiscus Tea

3 billion cups

I am told that every day the world consumes 3 billion cups of tea. I wonder how many swimming pools that would fill?

January is Hot Tea Month

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Green tea may help you get rid of tummy fat

A recent study found green tea catechin consumption enhances exercise-induced changes in abdominal fat and serum triglycerides. Several other studies have also given indications that green tea helps to boost the efficiency of weight loss exercise. In the recent study , published in the February issue of the Journal of Nutrition, shows that nasty hard to get rid of belly fat may be the first to go.

The study evaluated about 130 obese adults. All consumed a diet that was the same in daily calories and participated in the same amount of moderate exercise. They also drank a beverage each day containing 39 milligrams of caffeine, but one group consumed green tea. Green tea contains catechins, an antioxidant. After 12 weeks, the participants drinking the green tea had greater loss, about 4 pounds compared with about 2 pounds in the other group. The green-tea group also had larger declines in other fats.

Herbal tea jeopardizes sailor's future

There’s nothing like a nice cup of tea to relax, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Javier Trevino used to think.

Particularly herbal tea — no caffeine to get his hands shaking while he was working as an air traffic controller in Mayport Naval Station or to keep him awake at night.

So he was pretty amiable when a friend he was visiting last May in San Antonio offered him some herbal tea from Mexico. It was pretty good, Trevino remembers, kind of grassy tasting — good enough to bring back home, share with his 11-year-old son and best friend’s pregnant wife.

Not good enough, though, to put his entire career in jeopardy, possibly getting him drummed out of the Navy or tossed in jail.

That herbal tea was mate de coca, a beverage made from the plant leaves that are used to make cocaine.

Britain's "tightest" man

A father-of-seven who recycles his tea bags up to five times has been named Britain's "tightest" man in a TV show.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7818585.stm

Tea Tree Oil Body Wash

Well it might not be the kind of tea we drink but a new study is investigating whether a tea tree oil body wash can prevent the drug-resistant super bug MRSA in critically ill hospitalized adults. Tea tree oil body wash "may be a simple intervention to prevent MRSA, says Dr. Bronagh Blackwood from Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland.

Tea tree oil is an is obtained from the leaves of Melaleuca alternifolia, a plant native to Australia.

Wine, Chocolate, Tea can help boost memory

A small amount of wine, a few squares of chocolate or a few cups of tea could help to beat memory loss and delay the onset of dementia. However according to scientists, the benefits wear off dramatically if people take more than half a glass of wine, four squares of chocolate or five cups of tea.

Scientific Research Confirms: Theanine, found in tea, improves mental clarity

Lipton research institute has discovered Theanine, a new substance found in tea, helps to increase focus and mind clarity.

Armagnac parfait with prunes in Earl Grey tea

I found this resipe on line and thought it was so strange that it was worth posting.

Armagnac parfait with prunes in Earl Grey tea

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/3795295/Armagnac-parfait-with-prunes-in-Earl-Grey-tea.html

The 235th Anniversary Boston Tea Party Annual Reenactment

The 235th Anniversary Boston Tea Party Annual Reenactment
Today, Sunday, Dec 14 5:30p
at theOld South Meeting House, Boston, MA

Relive the evening of December 16, 1773, from the outraged protest over the tea tax to Samuel Adams' secret signal to throw 342 crates of tea overboard in Boston Harbor.

Police to offer tea

Police in Austraila have been told to show more respect to their prisoners: dim the lights at night, don't slam cell doors and serve tea, coffee or milk at least three times a day.

Tea and Crime Fighting

Varsha Patel, 45, was about to take her first sip of tea when two men wearing balaclavas burst in to her village store armed with 10-inch blades and made a grab for the till.

Reacting swiftly, she hurled the steaming tea into the face of one assailant and then threw the empty mug at his companion's head.

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Man Who Sips a Thousand Flavours of Tea Everyday

This man certainly has a palate for the cuppa that cheers! For the last 23 years, Kurush Bharucha has been working as a taster for Lipton - sampling up to 1,000 cups a day.Read More

Immune-enhancing lemon ginger tea

If you think you feel something coming on, try a cup of soothing, immune enhancing lemon ginger tea. Lemon is high in vitamin C and is full of phytochemicals – plant constituents that help boost the immune system. Ginger and honey are also well known for their immune-boosting properties.