Children Benefit from Drinking Tea
By Dan Bolton
An extensive review of medical research suggests children as early as age 4 benefit from drinking tea.
In a peer-reviewed paper published in the Nutrition and Food Technology journal, Dr. Pamela Mason identified 60 scientific studies on the health benefits of drinking tea from childhood onward, as reported in The Telegraph of London. Drinking three cups of black tea daily improves cardiovascular health and boosts the body’s immune system, she said. Tea also helps combat obesity, stress, aids relaxation, influences brain functions such as alertness and concentration, and is an ideal replacement for sugary drinks. Drinking tea daily “could help preserve physical and mental health in childhood, through the teens and adulthood, pregnancy and into old age,” she said. Learn more...
Landslides in the tea lands following torrential monsoon rains.
Tea Suffering Intemperate Torture
By Dan Bolton
The howl of Typhoon In-Fa assailing China, and the monsoons deluging India brought havoc, not relief to parched tea lands this month. Record rainfalls in central China’s Henan Province forced the evacuation of 1 million people. In India, super-heated air from a killer heat wave — now heavily laden with moisture — traveled north causing flooding. Chiplun in Maharashtra, received 450mm (17.7 inches) of rainfall in a single day on July 22.
Rising temperatures are causing an unusual period of extreme weather globally. The results are visible this summer as heat domes, and drought, slow-moving monsoons and violent typhoons and fast-melting glaciers in the Himalayas. Read more...
Photo from The Life of Tea, A Journey to the World's Finest Teas by Michael Freeman and Timothy d’Offay, courtesy Michael Freeman Photography.
REVIEW: The Life of Tea
By Kyle Whittington | Tea Book Club
One of the lovely things about this book is that you don’t feel that you’re rereading information on tea that you’ve read 1,000 times before. Rather, you go on a journey to each tea type, each country, region, artisan or tea house, and along the way, dotted throughout the text like so many villages amongst the tea mountains are these wonderful gems and nuggets of information. There’s so much to learn and absorb both from the pictures and the text in this book. It sits such at an unusual sweet spot where a visually enticing book meets a well-researched and written reference book. Read more…
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