Monday, March 17, 2008

If you are a woman, drink tea

Women who drink three cups of tea a day may be protecting themselves against heart attacks and strokes.


They are less likely to have plaques - dangerous build-ups of fat and cholesterol - in their arteries, researchers found.

Only around one third of women who drank three or more cups of tea a day had plaques in a neck artery, compared with almost half of those who drank no tea.

However, the French study appeared to show that men who were regular tea-drinkers did not reap the same health benefits.

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