Drinking tea cuts risk of heart disease by one-third Posted Oct
20 2010 12:54am Posted By Neill Abayon Drinking several cups of
tea or coffee daily appears to cut your risk of heart disease by
more than one-third, Dutch researchers have found. "It's
basically a good news story for those who like tea and coffee,"
said lead researcher Yvonne van der Schouw. "These drinks appear
to offer benefits for the heart without raising the risk of
dying from anything else." The study appeared in
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, a journal of
the American Heart Association. Researchers followed 40,000
healthy people for 13 years, then compared rates of heart
disease with consumption of coffee and tea. They found that
participants who drank between three and six cups of tea per day
were 45 percent less likely to die from heart disease than those
who drank less than a cup a day. Drinking coffee or larger
amounts of tea was also protective against death from heart
disease, but not as strongly. People who dran