8. In 2012, 94 mergers or acquisitions took place in the hospital industry worth a total of $1.88 billion, the highest value of M&A activity within the industry over the last decade, according to Irving Levin Associates.
If you really want tea (and you want it now!) then shoot for bottled versions with an acid like lemon juice or citric acid, which help stabilize EGCg levels. 10. Squeeze on the Citrus Adding lemon increases teaâs antioxidant potential. Vitamin C provides an acidic condition for catechins inside our bodies, making them more available for absorption. Normally teaâs catechins become super-unstable in the high acidity of our intestines.
A lot of people will tell you to squeeze some lemon juice into the water first, which acidulates it; lemon contains ascorbic acid, which not only lowers pH (as does the citric acid also found in lemons) but can also reverse the oxidation reaction through a process chemists call reduction.