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Relax Already: Make a Cup of Tea
Stress is a common phenomenon of a hectic workday, when everything speeds up to an unmanageable pace. To help slow things down and relax a bit, brew a cup of tea. This simple action can create profound results.
Two Popular Beverages Linked to Throat Cancer
A cup of hot tea can be soothing on a cold day, but a new study urges you to think about the temperature of your beverage before you start sipping. Drinking scalding hot tea that is greater than 158°F (70°C) has been shown to increase the risk of throat cancer. Participants in the study who made black tea and drank it two minutes after pouring were five times as likely to develop throat cancer as compared to those who let their tea sit for four or more minutes.
Rooibos – Red, Red Tea
Always on the lookout for a new cup of tea to enjoy, I have recently taken to drinking a cup of rooibos, pronounced Roy-boss, after dinner. Also known as red tea or bush tea, rooibos hails from South Africa and is not really a "tea," but an herbal tisane. High in antioxidants this tisane is a great dessert substitute.
Tea and Bone Density
I am always up for a cup of tea. I like all colors and varieties. Herbal, green, black, rooibos, iced, hot, with lemon, with cream — I am game for any and all.
Tea Kettles for a Cure
You know that I'm always in the mood for a nice relaxing cup of tea. Now your health can benefit from all the healthy antioxidants found in tea while you benefit others with these tea kettles from a couple of great causes!
Here is the LIVESTRONG kettle by Chantal (for $39.95).
Diet Tip: Close the Kitchen
Snacking after dinner often leads to overeating. It just happens that the mindless munchies take over and you end the day by consuming more calories than you burned during the day. If you are dieting you definitely want to avoid that, since your goal is to be in a caloric deficit.
Have You Heard of: Alter Eco Fair Trade
I've told you about Fair Trade, and how it's so important to support companies and businesses with the Fair Trade label. Rapunzel, Divine Chocolate, and Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates are great companies to buy from.
Just to remind you, Fair Trade means that the farmers were given a fair price for their products, so they can in turn pay their workers the proper salary.
Drink Tea to Lower Skin Cancer Risk
New research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology has found that tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma, the two most common forms of skin cancer.
This does not mean that you can go to the pool, order a tea and skip the sunscreen since no evidence was found that tea drinking lowered skin cancer risk in people who'd accumulated painful sunburns in the past. Also, the study did not look at the relationship between tea drinking and malignant melanoma, the least common but most deadly form of skin cancer.
Calm-A-Sutra of Tea: Video Competition
Do you like tea? Do you like making videos? Looking for a $20,000 scholarship?
Stained Teeth? Coffee Is Not the Only Culprit
We all want our teeth to be bright and white. There are so many whitening products and toothpastes on the shelves at my local drugstore. Dentists, for a pretty penny, professionally bleach stained and colored teeth.
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