Drink This Throughout Your Life, Stay Sharp
Want to be a smart cookie all the way into your elderly years? Yes please! While I don't think about my elder years a lot, if I can do things now to ward off dementia and Alzheimer's later in life, I'm all over it. And, here's something that may help ...
Want to stay sharp through the years? Make tea-drinking a part of your life, say researchers. According to the Cardiovascular Health Study presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2010, drinking tea through your life, particularly as you get older, may slow the rate of cognitive decline.
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"Regular tea drinkers are essentially experiencing a different rate of cognitive decline than non-tea-drinkers," principal investigator Lenore Arab, PhD, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of California-Los Angeles, told reporters attending a press briefing here.
While the researchers aren't sure about why tea has such curious properties, they do say that it's not the caffeine that provided the health benefits--so herbal is just as great as black tea.
Are you a devoted tea drinker?
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