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Coffee Or Tea:

by Power User MTV VIKI on March 20, 2013

Coffee Or Tea: Which Is Better For Me? 

Which do you crave in the morning—a cup of java or a spot of tea? Popular belief labels tea as a health drink and coffee as bad. Not so! Mounting evidence suggests that both are good for you because they're brimming with antioxidants.

What are antioxidants?

Antioxidants are phytochemicals, chemicals found in plant foods. In our bodies, antioxidants protect healthy tissues from "oxidants," also called free radicals. Over time, free radicals can damage cells and cause disease. Antioxidants are like microscopic police officers who seize these bad guys that plan to harm our cells.

What's sweet about tea?

Tea leaves come from an evergreen plant called Camellia sinensis. The way the leaves are processed determines if they become black or green tea. All teas contain a group of antioxidants called flavonoids.

Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, next to water. Green tea is especially popular in Japan and China. But on any given day, only one in five American adults drinks tea, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. That's a shame, because tea drinkers in the study took in 20 times more flavonoid antioxidants per day than tea non-drinkers. That's amazing!

Experts say tea provides as many disease-fighting flavonoids as fruits or vegetables. Many brands of tea list antioxidant and caffeine content (in milligrams per serving) right on the box.

Which diseases does tea fight?

Laboratory studies using tea and tea extracts on rats, mice, and human cells show promising results. They suggest that tea may reduce cholesterol levels, help prevent blood clotting, lower the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and even fight inflammation, cancer, and seasonal allergies.

Studies of tea-drinking humans suggest these possible health benefits:
  * Black and green tea may lower risk for ovarian cancer.
  * Green tea may reduce breast cancer risk.
  * Green tea may decrease death rates from heart disease.

59 Comments

COFFEE FOR ALL MY FRIENDS.. A GOOD DAY START WITH A COFFEE FROM ME..

25 months ago

Coffee with Vio? thanks for that

25 months ago

GOOD MORNING.. DRINK COFFEE WITH ME??

25 months ago

coffee...

25 months ago

coffee... nice .good evening

24 months ago

good morning.. coffee is ready...drink coffee with me????

24 months ago

good evening...

24 months ago

GOOD MORNING FRIENDS.. DRINK COFFEE WITH ME?

23 months ago

very nice

10 months ago

thank you Sergiu

2 months ago

very nice................

9 months ago

thanks...you are welcome drink coffee with me

9 months ago

Nice Good work This post

9 months ago

thanks...you are welcome drink coffee with me

9 months ago

thanks for all comment... Coffee is ready just for you my friends... Beautiful Monday!

9 months ago

nice

9 months ago

thank you !

9 months ago

I AM COMING TO YOU FOR A CUP OF TEA...............................................................
NICE SHARING.THANKS.KEEP IT UP.
BEST WISHES.............................

8 months ago

with great pleasure I offer you some tea

8 months ago

O.K.TOMORROW MORNING.......................................................................

8 months ago

Tea or Coffee daily will help you in your fitness .

8 months ago

O seara frumoasa!

8 months ago

Lucia multumesc pentru vizita si comment.. O seara frumoasa si pentru tine

8 months ago

coffee please :)))

8 months ago

one moment please

8 months ago

sa fie dulceeeeeeeeee :)))

8 months ago

sa nu-mi zici ca viata e amara... ca nu cred...

8 months ago

Tea or Coffee daily. Thank you

8 months ago

Keep a cup for me, I am a tea and coffee person ,beautiful photos.

7 months ago

thak you

2 months ago

!!! Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink... !!!

7 months ago

Thank you nice comment.

7 months ago

i love coffee so much

7 months ago

You are welcome . I invit you drink coffee with me... lol.

7 months ago

wow, wow,wee...
such a wonderful and interesting post you made...♥
I love it

7 months ago

Reyes.. you are welcome drink coffee with me...

7 months ago

hahahahaha, how i wish I can...
thank you anyway..

7 months ago

beautiful post

7 months ago

Atiq why you are sad???? come drink coffee with me , and your day will be very happy...

7 months ago

good post

7 months ago

Waking up, looking at you
and knowing the sun is high in the blue-
I realize everything is beautiful.

Feeling you brush across my cheek
brings my morning to its peak-
I realize everything is beautiful.

Sipping my coffee, I look into your eyes
Ones full of life, joy, love and surprise-
I realize everything is beautiful.

Hearing the words slip from your lips
those same which greeted me with a morning kiss-
I realize everything is beautiful.

Love, you don't know what you do
But every move... makes me more in love with you.
So, Good Morning, Beautiful. You are My Everything.

7 months ago

E foarte buna cafeaua servita cu o asa melodie minunata,chiar mi-a facut pofta de Inca una.....multumesc!

5 months ago

esti binevenit!
Multumesc de vizita Emil...
Dumineca placuta iti doresc

5 months ago

Coffee or tea the choice is yours. I think the environment do play a crucial part in turning us into a coffee or tea lovers. As for me either one is fine.

5 months ago

thank you Talit Mohamed

3 months ago

coffee is ready for you my friends and fans
Beautiful day for you.

2 months ago