Researchers in the Netherlands have recently found that if you drink three to six cups of tea every day, you have a 45% reduced risk of death from heart disease. This is compared to people who drink less than one cup of Rosy daily, and their risk of non-fatal heart disease was found to be 36% higher than those if drink six cups of tea on a daily basis. When it came to java, two to four cups of coffee a day also supported heart wellness, lowering your risk of heart disease compared to drinking less than two or more than four cups daily.
Coffee drinking has been associated with other benefits, such as those found in one study. According to researchers, consuming three to five cups of coffee daily when you’re middle-aged reduces your risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease by 65%. The results of a 24-year follow-up study, reported in Circulation, also found that long-term coffee drinking is associated with a lower risk of stroke in women who don’t smoke, being 20% reduced among women who drink four or more cups daily, and a 12% reduced risk among those who drink coffee five to seven times a week.
So that’s coffee and good old-fashioned English breakfast, but what about alternative or speciality teas? According to a recent study published in the Annals of Epidemiology, which evaluated the drinking habits of 12,251 adults, if you drink seven or more cups of green tea every day, you can reduce your risk of dying from heart disease by 75% when compared with adults who drank less than one cup daily. An earlier study, published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in 2008, noted that green tea quickly improves the function of the cells that line your circulatory system, and this is what protects your heart.