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Nothing Beats a Great Cup of Tea

By: Sandra Wilson

Tea is old. It is older than coffee and about the same age as beer as a beverage. According to legend, it was discovered when a leaf, from the tree a Chinese emperor was sitting beneath, fell into the water a servant was boiling for him. That leaf fell from a wild tea tree. Eventually tea became the national drink of the Chinese and the rest, as they say, is history.

In addition to being old, tea is a very popular product. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the yield in 2006 was about 3.6 million tonnes. When you consider it takes only about two grams of tea to make a cup of tea, you can see we are swimming in it.

Do you need to worry about the caffeine in your tea? Most teas have less than coffee but it does still contain caffeine and varies from about 8 to 110 mg per cup. As you can see that is a wide range. Where your cup of tea will fall depends upon mostly the type of tea and how long it is steeped.

Drinking tea will also provide you with some health benefits. While drinking, you are ingesting antioxidants which have been shown to protect people from Alzheimer's disease per the Phytotherapy Research magazine. You are also getting minerals which are essential for growing bones and homeostasis of the body. This doesn't even count what the vitamins do for you.

It doesn't matter to most people what the history or economics or health benefits of tea are. They simply drink it because it is a great, flavorful beverage. It's a good way to start a day or wind one down.

Throughout time, tea drinking has been both a personal delight for individuals as well as the center of social ceremonies. The tea dance soon followed the opening of the first tea shop in London in the late 1800s. It has even been the center of political unrest as the Boston Tea Party is perhaps the best example.

Even though East and West can seldom agree on anything, one thing we all do agree upon is that wonderful cup of tea. It is savored both in the northern and southern hemispheres of the world and is the center of many social gatherings all around the world. It is even way of life in some places.

So regardless of what type of tea you prefer, there is a tea for you whether it is black, green, white or red. And don't forget the herbal teas that aren't created from the tea tree. No matter what, you can't resist a cup of the most perfect drink there is...tea.

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