Tea Keeps Hearts healthy

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Added Benefits

Tea also may help curb your appetite. Unless you add milk or a sweetener, tea contains no calories. In a study conducted at the University of Chicago, scientists found that mice given specific green-tea polyphenols consumed 50 to 60 percent less food than mice that didn’t get them. Although humans are not mice, one of the study’s authors, Shutsung Liao, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the University of Chicago, expects to see similar results in people.

Drinking tea may boost your metabolism and help keep you slim, according to a report in the Journal of Nutrition. In one study, people who drank five 10-ounce servings of oolong tea for three days increased their energy expenditure (metabolism) by 3 percent more than people who drank water. That boost amounted to 67 calories per day. Over one year, that could add up to a 61⁄2-pound weight loss. The researchers believe that the polyphenols in tea may be responsible for stimulating the metabolism.