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Health Benifit of Tea Drinking
Tea is a pleasant, inexpensive, versatile, safe, almost calorie and sodium free drink that is enjoyed by the people across the globe. It also provides a dietary source of biologically active compounds that helps in preventing a wide variety of diseases. Todays stressful world, tea can play a vital role in improving the quality of human health. It is very important that in recent years, the consumers in the developed countries are becoming more and more health conscious. The health value of tea as a drink is being slowly understood, as revealed by some investigators from time to time. The scientific progress in the field of tea and health has been remarkable in the last two decades. Research shows tea has many medicinal values, such as antibacterial, antiviral, anticariogenic, anticarcinogenic properties. Recent studies also show evidence that polyphenols in tea serve as potential in lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease. Research also shows that black and green teas have similar valuable qualities in lowering the risk of these chronic diseases.