Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Older Ladies for the Health Benefit Black Tea

Australian researchers studied the relationship between consumption of black tea varieties and levels of blood pressure in women older than 70 years. It has been observed that the ladies who had consumed about 500 ml of tea a day, arterial pressure was significantly lower than that of those special, which is not drink this noble drink.

Hypotensive effect of tea linked to the content of poly (4-O-metilgall acid). Polyphenols are antioxidants, have properties to improve the function of endothelium and oestrogen action. Interestingly, the curative properties of tea is not dependent on body mass index, level of physical activity and socioeconomic status.

In addition, recently found that tea has a feature to reduce cholesterol levels in blood serum.

Given the high content of caffeine in tea, its hypotensive effect is least to say the surprising feature.

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