Resumo de Have One More Cup Of Tea

If you visit a relative, friend or any office you are offered a cup of tea, (many times ?one more?), do not hesitate, take it & please your host. It transcends all the barriers of age, sex, religion, region & politics. It is a daily requirement all over the world including our valley. History traces tea to its origin thousands of years ago in China where it was consumed for medical & health benefits. Several millennia later, modern scientific research is confirming that such ancient intuition has relevance to contemporary health concerns including cancer, heart disease & antibiotic resistance bacteria says dr. KK Aggarwal. Tea is a drink made from hot water & the dried leaves of the tea plant. Tea is a popular drink in almost all parts of the world, particularly the U.K., China, Russia, Japan & India. The British lead in world tea consumption, for they drink more than ten pounds (4.5 kg.) of tea per head every year. This is enough to make nearly 2,000 cups of tea. Most tea is grown in India, Ceylon & mainland China. Tea from each region has a different taste. Indian is the strongest & Chinese is the delicate. Black tea, the kind normally drunk in Europe, America made by crushing the leaves, allowing them to ferment (decompose) for a few days & then heating them to stop fermentation. Black tea (without milk) is also consumed in abundance in Middle East particularly Iran where it is a custom to serve black tea & water in separate containers & then pour tea leaves extract & water in small glass (Istikan) & drink one after the other. They do not add sugar & milk to the tea, instead use sugar cubes, and put a cube on mouth and swallow with sips of black tea. In Northern Iran cancer of food pipe is very common because they drink very hot black tea in abundance. Green Tea, which is drunk in some parts of Asia, is unfermented & tastes different. In some Eastern countries, brick tea ? tea pressed in a block is used. Salt (Namkeen) Tea is consumed by Kashmiris. Tea leaves are boiled repeatedly in a copper utensil & when the leaves are almost dry, desired quantity of water & milk is added, poured in a Samovar (a big copper utensil) & then served. This is an ancient tradition in Kashmir though now vanishing day by day. Is namkeen tea harmful or harmless is still a debate. It does not have any link between cancer of digestive tract & Namkeen Tea (provided taken in moderate quantity & not very hot). There is no evidence that namkeen tea is directly responsible for stomach cancers. Namkeen tea has two. Many doctors say it causes irritation of stomach, so it should be avoided. Instead of namkeen tea light Qahwa can be served. In short if people addicted to namkeen tea cannot stop it they should boil the tea leaves for a minimum period & add more milk & then consume it when it is not too hot & should be used in moderate amount. Being a Kashmiri ?namkeen tea? came in between otherwise my aim of writing this article to tele readers a good news particularly to those who are addicted to Lipton tea. Regular consumption of tea over a long period, particularly, over a span of more than 10 years, results in beneficial effects on overall bone mineral density of the bones. The backbone & the hip bone are specially benefited (Arch Intern Med: 2002; 162; 1001-6). Information received from Taiwan reveals a protective effect of tea on bone mineral density. If the duration of tea consumption was greater than ten years, the bone density was higher at all locations in the body. The results were observed, irrespective of the variety of tea, the body mass index (BMI), physical activity, age & gender. Also the quantity of tea consumed. Constituents of tea which seem to be at the origin of this beneficial effect on bone mineral density are firstly the fluorides, secondly the flavonoids. More ever it has been experimentally demonstrated in vivo on the bones of mice, that extracts of tea can inhibit bone resorption & protects activity of bone cells. However, the rest of the unknown factors, particularly genetic factors which are likely to in this protective effect of tea will have to be studied in future. Tea modifies the intestinal micro flora, reducing undesirable bacteria & increasing friendly (beneficial) bacteria. But he warns that caution should be applied, however, in the use of high concentration of tea may cause nutritional & other problems because of the caffeine content & the strong binding activities of tea polyphenols, although there are no solid data on the harmful effects of tea consumption. A growing body of evidence suggests that consumption (of course excess of everything is bad) of tea may protect against several forms of cancer, heart disease, the formation of kidney stones, bacterial infections & dental cavities. So the next time if you are offered one more cup of tea, smile & accept it whole heartedly & enjoy it because for years in studies in China & Japan have shown that the folklore about tea does contain some truth ? it does promote longer life.

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