"The beneficial effects of drinking black tea are completely prevented by the addition of milk, said Dr Verena Stangl, a cardiologist at the hospital.
"If you want to drink tea to have the beneficial health effects you have to drink it without milk. That is clearly shown by our experiments," she told Reuters.
Milk cancels health benefit of drinking tea: study [Reuters]
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Speaking of which.... it's teatime.
It's a good thing I don't like tea.
Honestly, how can you drink something that smells like perfume? Coffee, at least, doesn't smell like a non-food product even if it doesn't taste good.
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ummm...also I'm suspicious of the sample size & methodology of the study. But I don't take studies in newspapers at face value anyway. In a college class, we compared actual studies to the newspaper reporting of them, and they were almost always at least somewhat wrong. Sometimes minor, sometimes major, and always with some differences in implications, caveats, etc. Newspapers just usually don't report science that well.
still better for me than coffee i imagine.
]]>Then they go on to make what is at best incompletely supported claim:
"If you want to drink tea to have the beneficial health effects you have to drink it without milk."
You'd think something like that would require a little bit more study, and perhaps more of a cause then "casein cancels out the good stuff"
For you blood donors out there: Did you know that tea reduces your iron levels? Last time I tried to donate they wouldn't let me because my iron was too low. One of the first things she asked was if I drink a lot of tea - sure enough, I have at least a cup every morning instead of coffee. It's no big deal (especially for guys who have higher iron levels) but if you tend to be on the low end of the iron scale, just cut the tea out for a week or two before you donate blood.
]]>16? I'm mistrustful of the results.
]]>Oh, and we proponents of the Royal We have you loners way outnumbered.
]]>Get over it, "we" won't hurt you.
As for the topic at hand, I am with ElizabethD on this. All you filthy milk/tea people should be ashamed of yourselves.
]]>Granted, 16 seems low. Without actually reading the experimental results, I can't say if this was a valid study or not.
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and I drink my tea black, maybe with some lemon. I am told by my British compatriots I am a heathen, a heretic, a rabble. And so be it.
I call bogus unless they study 5000-10000.
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