Jack Challem
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 You can make a "sun tea" by allowing several tea bags to steep in a pitcher of water either out in the sun or on your kitchen counter. One of my favorite sun teas is Celestial Seasonings Red Zinger. Black tea, green tea, and white tea are other options, and while they contain some caffeine, they are also rich in antioxidant flavonoids, and their health benefits seem to override any caffeine-related health problems. These teas appear to lower the long-term risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
When it comes to coffee, the research is nothing less than conflicting and confusing. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 In fact, there was a greater incidence of cancer among smokers who drank a lot of green tea than among those who drank less tea, which was of borderline statistical significance, although this might have been caused by the fact that people who smoke also tend to drink green tea.
Another study followed 40,530 Japanese adults for eleven years to measure mortality and green tea consumption. The authors found a significant inverse correlation between consumption of green tea and death from all causes (more green tea, fewer deaths) and death from heart disease (but not cancer). |
| There are no adverse effects of ginseng tea to worry about.
GREEN TEA
Widely consumed in Asian countries, green tea is believed to have antioxidant and anticancer effects. Steeping fresh leaves in very hot (not quite boiling) water makes green tea, which inactivates oxidizing enzymes and leaves intact polyphenols, which have been shown to have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties in animal models. Based on this evidence, many consider green tea to be healthful, and many Japanese drink large quantities of it. Green tea extracts sold as supplements in the U.S. |
| So if you want to drink some ginseng tea to make yourself feel better, go ahead and enjoy it. There are no adverse effects of ginseng tea to worry about.
GREEN TEA
Widely consumed in Asian countries, green tea is believed to have antioxidant and anticancer effects. Steeping fresh leaves in very hot (not quite boiling) water makes green tea, which inactivates oxidizing enzymes and leaves intact polyphenols, which have been shown to have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties in animal models. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I donated another $100 last night as part of the Boston tea Party event. You can donate today at www.RonPaul2008.com
And you want to know the most interesting part of all this? Ron Paul is a doctor! He was actually trained as a physician, and yet unlike most other physicians, he believes in genuine freedom for patients. Paul believes that patients should have open access to scientifically accurate information about the usefulness of natural remedies and nutritional supplements. This just goes to prove that not all doctors are idiots! |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Drink Clean
Avoid or limit coffee and tea. Choose organic, decaffeinated coffee and/or herbal teas instead. Try drinking products that have been decaffeinated by a chemical-free water process, such as the Swiss Water Process; otherwise, decaf drinks can be yet another source of toxins. I recommend switching to green tea if you must have your daily cup. Avoid or significandy minimize alcoholic beverages. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 From a scientific standpoint, there is absolutely no question that drinking bitter melon as a tea (or taking it as a supplement) helps regulate blood sugar. Cinnamon has a similar effect, as do many other herbs. These medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years to support human health. It is only in the last 75 years or so that western medicine has gained power over the industry and surreptitiously declared that all of the medicinal herbs used for thousands of years throughout human history are now suddenly inert or harmful. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 Finish with Earl Grey tea.
LUNCH 6 oz. baked salmon on a 6 oz. garden salad with olive oil and vinegar with a few whole-wheat or rice crackers. Finish with green tea.
DINNER 4-6 oz. lean steak or veal with 4 oz. steamed green beans, toasted almonds, and cranberries. Finish with a cup of oolong tea.
HEALTHY 2 oz. cottage cheese with grapes
SNACKS x/z cup plain yogurt with blueberries
1 soft-boiled egg with some baby carrots 1 green apple with 2 tablespoons of almonds
By increasing your consumption of phenylalanine and tyrosine, you can restore your dopamine to optimal levels. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 Green tea contains powerful chemicals called "catechins" that are very good antioxidants, but they are lost if the green tea leaves are simply picked off a tea tree and allowed to dry. During the time they are drying, naturally occurring enzymes in the tea leaves turn the leaves brown, as the result of breaking down the catechins (see black tea, below). If the tea leaves are immediately steamed or heated, the process can be prevented, protecting the catechins from being broken down. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ron Paul, the only 2008 presidential candidate who supports honest health freedom reforms and the ending of Big Pharma's monopoly over medical free speech, raised more than $6 million in yesterday's record-breaking online "Boston tea Party" event. Nearly 25,000 of the donors were new donors, indicating that Ron Paul's support base continues to rapidly expand, reaching new people who resonate with the message of genuine freedom for the American people.
Registered as a Republican, Ron Paul is actually a Libertarian who strongly disagrees with the current Republican administration. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Another investigation conducted by the same research group examined the effects of tea polyphenols on plaque deposition in human subjects. At the start of this study, thirty-five volunteers aged eighteen to twenty-nine were given thorough dental examinations and the level of bacteria in their mouths was measured. Then, for each of two four-day periods, the volunteers followed experimental oral hygiene procedures. |
| Another myth of the origin of tea tells the tale of Bodhidharma (sometimes called Daruma), an Indian monk who founded the Japanese school of Buddhism. According to this story, around a.d. 520 Bodhidharma was traveling from India to China. When he arrived in Canton, he was offered sanctuary in a temple cave in the mountains near the capital of the Chinese Emperor Liang Wu Ti. Bodhidharma vowed to stay awake and meditate for nine years, but he fell asleep after only a few years. When he awoke, he was so upset at his weakness that he cut off his eyelids and threw them angrily to the ground. |
| Today Tea's popularity continues to grow as scientific research details the health benefits of this beverage.
Emperor Shen Nong (who lived at about the same time as Moses) believed that boiling water before drinking it was a key to continued good health. While he was boiling water in his garden, a leaf from a nearby bush wafted into his pot. Rather than remove the wayward leaf, he allowed it to brew in the water, and he drank the resulting liquid. He was pleased with this decoction and declared it to have even more healing power than boiled water alone. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Green tea has been promoted for its beneficial effects on heart health as well as for other reasons. In the Ohsaki National Health Insurance Cohort Study, an eleven-year study of 40,530 Japanese adults ages forty to seventy-nine, green-tea consumption was associated with a reduced risk of death and death related to cardiovascular disease.56 I am not ready to accept the results of this study, because people who drink green tea may be more health conscious in general, and this may have led to biased results. A double-blind randomized trial of green tea is needed. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| A group of colonists known as the Sons of Liberty, incensed by what they regarded as excessive taxation by the British government, dressed up as Indians and emptied the cargo of tea chests from the East India Company's ships moored in Boston Harbor, a cargo that would be valued at more than $200 million today. England was annoyed. One of the officially stated purposes of the tax was to pay for the maintenance of troops to protect the colonists and to maintain order. |
| A handful of other studies of human populations failed to find any relationship—positive or negative—between tea consumption and lung cancer. In order to reconcile these equivocal findings, researchers from the Nagoya University School of Medicine in Japan analyzed data gathered in the Okinawa prefecture, an area of Japan with the highest rate of mortality from lung cancer of all the forty-seven Japanese prefectures. In Okinawa in 1992, the rate was 38.2 deaths from lung cancer per 100,000 men and 10.2 per 100,000 women. |
| Other hospitals in China were involved in another unpublished study to investigate the effectiveness of tea polyphenols in cancer patients who already had low white blood cell levels. The study observed forty-five patients who suffered from a variety of illnesses; their average age was fifty-one (with a range from nineteen to seventy-three years old). |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Likewise, enjoy your coffee and tea minus milk, or use unsweetened plain, chocolate- or vanilla-flavored soymilk if you want to preserve the phytonutri-ents. (West-Soy and Trader Joe's make good unsweetened soymilk.) Now you know why the British, who generally add milk to their tea, don't enjoy the same health and longevity benefits as the Japanese, who drink it straight.
Both black and green teas, as well as coffee, have plenty of phytochemicals, but interestingly their benefits are released only in the presence of caffeine. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 This omelet, plus coffee or tea, is your breakfast. If you drink tea, choose green tea.
Lunch could consist of canned tuna fish or salmon with low-fat mayonnaise and cucumber slices on top of a slice of lettuce. For a change of pace, eat four to six slices of low-fat sliced cheese with mustard, or go with the tofu cheese. Use nuts as snacks if you get hungry between lunch and dinner. Dinner requires a bit more work in that you will have to prepare the main dish—either chicken, turkey, or fish. If you crave red meat, that's okay, but not more than once a week. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 He's found that compounds in green tea inhibit the placement of methyl markers on genes that help to fight colon, prostate, and esophageal cancer. Methylation of those genes would take them out of the cancer suppression business—by inhibiting their methylation, green tea keeps them in the anticancer fight.
The same Duke team responsible for the original study of vitamin-triggered methylation in agouti mice has demonstrated a similar methylating effect from genistein, the estrogenlike compound found in soy. |
Jack Challem
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 Regular iced tea contains caffeine, but it also has L-theanine, a natural compound that counteracts the effects of caffeine. Many noncaffeinated herbal teas make great iced teas. Celestial Seasonings' Red Zinger is one of our favorites. Always check the list of ingredients for added sugars, vague "natural sweeteners," or, in the case of one brand, "natural and artificial sweeteners." improve Your Keiationsnip witn rooa i uy
Practical Guideline #8. |
KC Craichy
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 Flora Therapeutic Teas are made from herbs selected from pristine environments and are certified organic whenever possible; they are also packaged in unbleached paper tea bags (which means they are dioxin-free). The herbs are dried at low temperatures to protect the quality of the essential oils and tested for heavy metals, pesticides, and microbial content.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Handcrafted Teas (www.mountainrose-herbs.com) are exceptionally fresh and long-lasting loose leaf teas. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The tea ceremonies of Japan are conceived in the spirit of the Taoist earthly paradise. The tearoom, called "the abode of fancy," is an ephemeral structure built to enclose a moment of poetic intuition. Called too "the abode of vacancy," it is devoid of ornamentation. Temporarily it contains a single picture or flower-arrangement. The teahouse is called "the abode of the unsymmetrical": the unsymmetrical suggests movement; the purposely unfinished leaves a vacuum into which the imagination of the beholder can pour. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Green Tea
Green tea contains potent antioxidant and polyphenol compounds called catechins, which have been shown to enhance energy in human clinical trials, help balance glucose levels, and protect against the development of atherosclerosis. Study results suggest that the polyphenols in green tea may interfere with the absorption of cholesterol in the intestinal tract and promote its elimination from the body. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The great tea masters were concerned to make of the divine wonder an experienced moment; then out of the teahouse the influence was carried into the home; and out of the home distilled into the nation.129 During the long and peaceful Tokugawa period (1603-1868), before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854, the texture of Japanese life became so imbued with signifi-
128 Cf. E. T. C. Werner, A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology (Shanghai, 1932), p. 163.
129See Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of tea (New York, 1906). |
Jack Challem
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| Black tea, green tea, and white tea are other options, and while they contain some caffeine, they are also rich in antioxidant flavonoids, and their health benefits seem to override any caffeine-related health problems. These teas appear to lower the long-term risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
When it comes to coffee, the research is nothing less than conflicting and confusing. Modest amounts of coffee—two cups or less daily— do not appear to pose health problems for many people. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The simplest object, framed by the controlled simplicity of the tea house, stands out in mysterious beauty, its silence holding the secret of temporal existence. Each guest is permitted to complete the experience in relation to himself. The members of the company thus contemplate the universe in miniature, and become aware of their hidden fellowship with the immortals.
The great tea masters were concerned to make of the divine wonder an experienced moment; then out of the teahouse the influence was carried into the home; and out of the home distilled into the nation. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| During the time they are drying, naturally occurring enzymes in the tea leaves turn the leaves brown, as the result of breaking down the catechins (see black tea, below). If the tea leaves are immediately steamed or heated, the process can be prevented, protecting the catechins from being broken down. In some experiments, where the ability to protect DNA from oxidation was studied, green tea was 2,500 times as potent as beta-carotene as an antioxidant.
Green tea also prevents tumor cells from growing new blood vessels, which is one of the main ways tumors grow and spread in the body. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 L-Theanine Promotes the Relaxation Response
L-theanine is a unique amino acid found almost exclusively in tea plants (Camellia sinensis). In fact, L-theanine is the primary amino acid component of green tea, comprising between 1 and 2 percent of the dry weight of tea leaves. The effects of L-theanine are truly amazing. Clinical studies have demonstrated that L-theanine reduces stress, improves the quality of sleep, diminishes the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, heightens mental acuity, and reduces negative side effects of caffeine. |
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