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Benefits of Tea

Many people around the world believe that tea can promote good health. It is a well-known fact that people also consider tea to be nature’s ‘wonder drug’. Is there any truth to this? Well, have you ever wondered why the Chinese and Japanese people have some of the longest life expectancy rates in the world? There’s a lot of reason to believe that tea may be one of the factors that increases the life expectancy rates, of those who consume it, tremendously due to the many benefits of tea. So what exactly are the benefits of tea? Tea is the product of a combination of leaves, buds, internodes of various cultivars, and variations of the camellia sinensis plant. Research has recently shown that tea derived from the camellia sinensis plant has cancer-fighting properties. This is because the leaves of the camellia sinensis plant contain chemicals called polyphenols – which gives tea its antioxidant properties. Most of the popular types of teas such as: green tea, black tea, white tea ,  Rooib