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Add milk in a cup of tea, is it bad?

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Iam not person who drink tea regularly. I noticed that people add milk in their cup of tea. They said without milk, drinking tea is just too strong. Tea with milk make the taste much better. Until i found that drinking tea should not be added by milk. That`s lifestyle advised by researcher based on small lab study. It may lower its health-protective properties. But what we concern here and what they research is black tea, not green tea or others.As we know, tea has ability to protect against heart disease. The western habit always mixing milk with a cup of tea. In UK, 98% of tea-drinkers prefer milk in their favorite cuppa.

The research is just small research, anyway. The researchers tested the effects of tea in 16 humans and on rat tissue. They found that molecules in the tea, catechins helped dilate the blood vessels by producing a chemical named nitric oxide. The caseins in milk prevented this effect by reducing the concentration of catechins in the tea.

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Coffee and wine, health benefits or?

There`s seem similar effect in negative health effects and benefits health effect of coffee and wine. Because of this situation can make them in beverage-induced disarray. What people should understand is that no one food, including these two beverages, is inherently good or bad.

Wine, Doreen Foland the dietitian at St. Francis Medical Center’s said that there are not essential health advantages. What we got is the fact that wine made from grapes (fruit). We get as advantages as we eat grape juice. Grapes as well as all fruits, vegetables and coffee has antioxidant benefits. (We just talk about red wine).

Antioxidants prevent and repair damage done by harmful free radicals. Heart disease, macular degeneration, diabetes and cancer have been linked to damage done by these free radical.  Drinking wine also lowers cholesterol.

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