Nourishment and You: Coffee or Tea?

By: Jeanette Bronee, Path for Life (View Profile)

Some of my personal tea choices:

  • My personal absolute favorite—from the perspective of a former coffee addict—is pu-erh tea. It is dark, rich, and very flavorful. This tea is also said to have slimming effects. I don’t know about that, but it is completely satisfying to drink.
  •  Green tea—this tea offers many choices. You can experience the nutty taste of Dragon Well, the scented sweetness of Jasmin Pearl, the smooth taste of Genmaicha, the bitter sweetness of Sencha, or the light, fragile flavor of White Tea.
  •  And then, of course, there are herbal teas. My favorite nighttime tea is either rooibos, which can help you sleep, or a nice French verveine,  which is much more delicate in its taste, and as nice as desert. Sometimes I add some dried lavender to it—yummy.

 

All teas have their time and place. The best way to find your personal favorites, is to try them. Sniff, taste, enjoy the color, and hold a nice cup in your hand—savoring the moment—just you and your tea break. Or a have a wonderful time sharing a nice pot of tea with someone else.

 

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posted: 10.23.2007
Midori Nakamura
...and 18 percent lower odds of having visual and spatial memory declines, compared to women who drank one cup or fewer per day. “Caffeine is a psychostimulant which appears to reduce cognitive decline in women,” study author Karen Ritchie of INSERM, the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research in Montpellier, France, said in a statement.
posted: 10.23.2007
Midori Nakamura
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Women—especially those 65 and over—who reported drinking three-plus cups of java daily did better on memory tests than compeers who drank one or fewer cups a day, French researchers said on Monday. Men did not enjoy the same benefit, they said. “The more coffee one drank, the better the effects seemed to be on (women's) memory functioning in particular,” said Karen Ritchie at the French National Institute of Medical Research, whose work appears in the journal Neurology. The researchers followed more than 7,000 men and women in three French cities, checking their health and mental function and asking them about their current and past eating and drinking habits, their friends, and their daily activities. They found that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, retained more of their verbal and—to a lesser extent—visual memories over four years. These women had a 33 percent lower odds of having verbal memory declines..
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