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Two New Studies Support Health Benefits Of Black Tea

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 17th, 2001

Data from two new research studies support the health benefits of drinking black tea.

The studies were presented June 16, 2001, at the first-ever Epidemiology Congress 2001, a joint meeting of Canadian and American scientific societies. The first paper, a national cross-sectional study of 1,764 women in Saudi Arabia, showed that tea drinkers were 19% less likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease. A second epidemiological paper presented at the conference showed that tea consumption was associated with a lower risk of rectal cancer in Moscow women.

The Saudi women who consumed black tea had total cholesterol, triglycerides, and low-density...

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