Published October 8, 2010

How green tea can make you feel fabulous

Just when I think I’ve heard everything about green tea, I find another use for this wonderful beverage. On Wednesday, I showed you four powerful uses for green tea. These included reduced risk for lung cancer, stroke, and periodontal disease. And it can even help you burn fat. Now there’s evidence that green tea can do something unexpected – calm your nerves and improve your mood.

As you may know, green tea contains caffeine. So the researchers in two separate studies were a little surprised when they found it can calm your nerves.

The first study was on 42,093 Japanese. The more green tea they drank, the less psychological stress they suffered.

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Published October 7, 2010

Why men with prostate problems and
hair loss may grow breasts

Researchers recently found a disturbing connection between prostate problems, hair loss, and men with breasts. While some men may have these problems due to hormonal changes, there’s another cause. And it’s one you can completely control.

Let’s face it. Men don’t want to grow breasts. Even talking about it is uncomfortable. So if there’s a way to prevent it, most men would jump at the chance.

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Published October 6, 2010

4 powerful new uses for green tea

If you’re not drinking tea every day, I just found two new studies that give even more reasons to make it a priority. I’ve told you in the past how tea can help prevent colon cancer, reduce inflammation, improve your memory, and even lower your cholesterol. But these two studies show tea’s protection goes a lot further.

In the first study, researchers found that drinking green or black tea every day may prevent ischemic stroke. Three or more cups per day reduced the risk by 21% in a meta analysis. While this type of study is not as good as a randomized, prospective clinical study, it supports everything else we know about the flavonoids in tea.

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