Men who Drink Tea May Have Less Belly Fat
Medical science has told us for decades now that being overweight is unhealthy. In recent years, they have told us that fat concentrated around the abdomen is the worst. Having excessive belly fat puts a person at higher risk for ailments such as diabetes and heart disease. Even if they aren’t severely overweight elsewhere in their bodies, the excessive belly fat puts them in danger.
A number of studies have been conducted regarding how drinking tea and coffee affects obesity. It’s an important factor in our diets because 60% of adults drink coffee or tea, usually with something like sugar added. Until recently, none of these studies specifically focused on abdominal fat. However, last week the first study about coffee, tea, and waistlines was presented at the First International Congress on Abdominal Obesity in Hong Kong.
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Tea—the Ultimate Comfort Food
It’s a long standing tradition. You’ve read about it in books and stories. You’ve seen it in movies, plays, and TV shows. Someone is worried, sad, exhausted, and what do they do to comfort themselves? They have a cup of tea. Someone wants to comfort someone who’s going through a hard time or wants to talk about a serious problem. What do they do? They offer the other person tea.
In real life, people don’t do this as often as they once did, but maybe they should. It seems that these days we reach for a convenient pill, go to a bar, or shell out big bucks for a therapist when maybe what we really need is a nice hot cup of tea.
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Tea Will Make a Splash at the Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics is a worldwide event. Tea is the world’s second most consumed beverage, surpassed only by water. Could there possibly be a better way to celebrate the idea of so many cultures coming together in one place than The World Tea Party?
In case you have not heard of The World Tea Party, it’s described on its website as a “fete eternelle” or never ending event. Canadian artists Brian Mulvihill, Suschnee, and Danial Dion first collaborated to put it together in 1993. The concept behind it is as simple as a cup of tea and as complex as the enormous variety of cultures in the world. The World Tea Party uses various art forms to explore the similarities and differences amongst cultures as expressed by to social settings in which people share a cup of tea
Since the first presentation at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, The World Tea Party has moved from venue to venue including more and more artists and their works. During the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, they will temporarily convert Centre A gallery into a combination teahouse and performance space. They will also take their performance art to the streets of Downtown Eastside Vancouver where The World Tea Party will engage Vancouver’s diverse communities in a series of tea parties and events held in various parks and other public places.
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Review of Dilmah Lover’s Leap Single Estate Ceylon Tea
In case you’re not familiar with Dilmah Tea, it’s a company founded by Sri Lanka native Merrill J. Fernando. It produces only teas made from Ceylon tea. All the tea they produce is grown, picked, and packaged by the people of Sri Lanka, thus keeping the money made from the tea with the people of Sri Lanka.
Lover’s Leap is part of Dilmah’s Watte Single Estate series. Grown at an altitude of 5,700 feet above sea level, it’s the highest grown of the four tea’s in the line. The altitude at which a tea plant is grown has a profound effect on the quality of the tea. In the case of Lover’s Leap, the high plantation has produced a tea with liquor more delicate in color, nose, and flavor than you would normally associate with a Ceylon tea.
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