Milk Will Reduce The Benefit Of Tea ?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 41 views

Consuming milk good for health, but many of the benefits of tea will be lost if mixed with milk.  A study in German showed that black tea soothing effect on arterial relaxation would loose if tea was contaminated by milk.

Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world, after water of course. Especially after reported that tea consumption will help reducing the chances of heart disease and cancer, the tea consumed in a broader range.

Stangl and his research team found that women who consumed half a liter of black tea has more flexible arteries than those who did not consume tea. Arterial relaxation proved to be concerned with the increased blood flow, caused by tea.

This condition will make heart disease can be reduced. (more…)

Coffee and Heart Rhythm

Monday, September 28th, 2009 153 views

a cup of coffee

I love coffee. I love the sweet-bitter taste of it, the smell can relax me, and it feels like I can’t start a day without it. I think I’ve been addicted to coffee. Though consuming coffee doesn’t always give nice effect. Most of the time is the change or irregular heart beat that sometimes comes up. Sometimes I feel a bit worry about what does it mean.

I search on the internet to find the answer, and I found that the trouble of heart rhythm is called ‘arrythmia‘.

Arrythmia is a disturbance in throb speed. So arrythmia doesn’t always have something to do with heart or coroner disease. Most of the time, it is caused by small things that we do in our daily, like how many cup of coffee that we drink every morning, how many glass of tea we consume, the caffeine, alcohol, cigarette, even our emotional disturbance like stress and depression, will cause arrythmia.

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