It's official: Tea is good for you – So
drink up!
It’s the news all tea loving health freaks have been
waiting for. At last, experts are saying what we’ve all been thinking since
the dawn of time (well, since we started drinking tea at any rate), that
drinking tea is good for us. Workplaces are usually full of folk who appear
to act concerned when you drink innumerate cups of
tea. Despite the usual protestations, these people won’t usually
let up in their forced alarm for your health, and the wisdom of drinking so
many cups of tea a day.
A recent BBC report now suggests that these people can begin to worry about
far more important matters, such as what the weather is like outside or
whether Dawn from accounts is slagging off the colour of their trousers
behind their backs. Nutritional experts, it is stated, claim that tea
contains “flavonoids” which help to curb the prospect of some cancers and
heart disease. More interestingly, it is claimed that tea does not dehydrate
you, and that furthermore “…drinking tea is
actually better for you than drinking water”. This is of course
superb news because it means we don’t have to consume water to compensate
for the drinking of tea.
The ramifications of this would seem to be wide ranging. In situations where
previously water would be drunk as a necessity, now tea can replace it to
actually make the occasion pleasurable. After a heavy night out drinking,
for instance, the customary “downing” of water
before bed in an attempt to curb the inevitable hangover can now
be replaced with a nice cuppa in front of the telly. Tea during meals, tea
after exercise, tea when you’re ill and need “plenty of fluids,” the
possibilities are endless!
We have long argued the benefits of tea from a psychological perspective
here on these pages, and in particular its role in
relaxation and coping with the working day. For more information
on the specifics of the study, check out the original
BBC article,
also detailed on the superb
Tea Council
website.