Fresh and Health

Do you know that the amounts of water that the body needs each day can be fulfilled with three cups of tea? Besides that, tea also widely known can prevents cancer and heart-attack or cardiovascular diseases.

This extra health benefits of tea comes from flavonoid, antioxidant that can be found in various plants, including tea-leaf. Flavonoid is a very important substance to prevent cell damage.

Another benefits of tea are protect teeth from plague, and strengthen bones. “Drinking tea is better than drinking water, because it’s not only replaced our body’s fluids, but alos gives us an extra antioxidant”, said Dr. Carrie Ruxton, nutrition experts from King College London.

Tea also known to caused dehydration because it contains caffeine, but it only occurred in a very high doses. A cup of tea has a significant less caffeine than a cup of coffee with the same size.

Another bad effect of tea is it can distrubs iron absorbing from foods. That’s why people with anemia are not recommended to drink tea during or after meal.