~~Drinking eight teas a day 'cuts blood pressure and heart disease'~~
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Subject: ~~Drinking eight teas a day 'cuts blood pressure and heart disease'~~ Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:03 pm
Now scientists have found tea really does lower the blood pressure and could prevent heart disease. Drinking eight cups of black leaf tea, such as Earl Grey or English Breakfast, a day “significantly” cuts blood pressure, researchers at the University of Western Australia found. Volunteers with normal to high blood pressure were given three drinks a day containing 429 milligrams of the plant chemicals polyphenols – the equivalent of eight and a half teas a day. A second group were given a tea-flavoured placebo. After six months, the blood pressure of the tea-drinking group had fallen by between two and three mmHg, the measurement of pressure used in medicine. A blood pressure fluctuating with the heartbeat between 112 and 63 mmHg is considered healthy, while a reading fluctuating between 140 and 90 is deemed high.
~~Drinking eight teas a day 'cuts blood pressure and heart disease'~~