Tea one of Discover's Top 100

The health benefits of drinking tea made Discover magazine's list of the top 100 science stories of 2003. This article was not about the well-known antioxidant benefits of tea, but rather the fact that tea bolsters the immune system with a substance called L-theanine. This helps the body to produce ethylamine, which in turn makes T cells produce far more infection-killing chemicals, including interferon.

Another poster posted the complete AP story on this forum in April - you can go back and read it on Google if you are interested. A search on "interferon" works.

-- Randy (if replying by e-mail, remove SPAMFREE from my address)

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RJP
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"RJP" wrote in news:gJLCb.382871$275.1236693@attbi_s53:

"A second experiment, using human volunteers, showed that immune system blood cells from tea drinkers responded five times faster to germs than did the blood cells of coffee drinkers."

Wow. Thanks for the post. Go tea!

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fLameDogg

I think coffee has a tendency to lower your immune system. It also discolors your teeth.

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Dave

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Dave) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

Do you have any links to studies to that effect? Then again, who wants to talk about coffee?

Tea also does so, unfortunately.

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fLameDogg

I do have studies.

I drink tea and my teeth are not discolored.

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Dave

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Dave) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

K. Any links?

I'm happy to hear it. I'm sure you take good care of your teeth. But I think you will find that most people agree that tea *can* stain the teeth. In fact, there was a thread on the subject very recently.

Here are a few links which seem to support my position:

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There's lots more, but this is interfering with my tea drinking ;O)

I would think, if I had to guess, that coffee stains more than tea. I wonder if anyone has done any studies to that effect? :O)

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fLameDogg

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