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Why Drinking Tea Can Help You Live Longer – And Lose Weight

But it’s bad news for coffee drinkers who are more likely to live an unhealthy lifestyle AND smoke

Well this news certainly perked up our Monday morning.

Drinking tea can help you live longer, according to a new study.

So do we. [Etsy]
So do we. [Etsy]

Research shows that people that drink tea have a 25 percent less chance of dying early than those that don’t drink tea.

The benefits of tea are largely due to its antioxidant ingredients – and it doesn’t matter whether how much tea you drink or whether you add milk.

The antioxidants in tea help to boost heart health [Rex]
The antioxidants in tea help to boost heart health [Rex]

French researchers studied 131,401 people aged between 18 and 95 over seven years.

During that time (2001-2008), there were 95 deaths from cardiovascular causes and 632 deaths from non-cardiovascular causes.

Tea drinkers live longer [Rex]
Tea drinkers live longer [Rex]

Participants were questioned about how much tea they drank and classified as non-tea drinkers, to moderate (one-four cups) to heavy tea drinkers (more than four cups).

Tea drinkers had lower blood pressure and were generally healthier than their coffee-drinking counterparts – or those people that didn’t drink tea at all.

Unfortunately coffee drinkers didn't fare as well.
Unfortunately coffee drinkers didn't fare as well.

Coffee drinkers came off the worst, with 57 percent of heavy coffee drinkers being smokers (so coffee and cigarettes go hand-in-hand, after all).

“Overall we tend to have a higher cardiovascular risk profile for coffee drinkers and a lower risk profile for tea drinkers,” said Professor Danchin, who led the study in Paris, France.

“Tea drinking lowered the risk of non-cardiovascular death by 24 per cent and the trend towards lowering cardiovascular mortality was nearly [statistically] significant.”

Drinking tea could help people lose weight too [Rex]
Drinking tea could help people lose weight too [Rex]

But it’s not the only reason we’ll be sipping on our builder’s brew come 3pm, as tea has also been found to boost your metabolism while milk provides calcium, too.  

Studies have shown that tea can also help you lose weight. It contains compounds that prevent some of the fat you eat being absorbed by the body.

Now who wants a cuppa?

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[The health benefits of drinking tea]