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Jon Stout - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Jon M. Stout is the Chairman of the Board for Element H2O, a bottler in Chantilly, Virginia offering only Ultra Pure bottled water products and private label opportunities for small and large businesses in all 50 states and Canada. Element H2O’s clients include a wide array of businesses in the health and fitness and hospitality industries, including martial arts studios, fitness centers, gyms, private trainers, physical therapy clinics, sports medicine clinics, large and small ... [More]

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  • Loose Leaf Tea and 5 Star Restaurants - A Profit Opportunity
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Dining at a fine restaurant is a real pleasure to most consumers but, considering the prices, the meal and service must be high quality and one that leaves an impression of value. Value involves more that just the menu- the presentation must be perfect and the service must be attentive without being annoying. Anything less will negatively impact word of mouth advertising and repeat visits.


  • Quality Specialty Tea and E-Commerce
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There is no question that quality loose leaf tea is better tasting and offers more flavors and varieties that bagged tea. But quality loose leaf tea has another feature that appeals to tea drinkers and that is ease of ordering on the internet. Internet shopping or e-commerce as it is often called offers variety, lower cost and convenience and now, with the security safeguards offered by security providers like Verisign and others, e-commerce is absolutely safe.


  • The Best Way to Buy Quality Specialty Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Quality loose leaf tea is enjoyed by tea drinkers world wide and the segment of the tea industry described as specialty tea has grown in popularity. Specialty tea suppliers combine the robust taste of quality loose leaf tea with complementary fruit and spice flavor and the resulting brews are truly delicious and memorable.


  • Tea and Baby Boomers - Tea As a Building Block to Maintaining Good Health
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The generation of Americans called, for want of a better term, "baby boomers" are getting older and health issues are now a factor in maintaining quality of life. The "baby boomers" who are classified as those Americans born directly after World War II in the period 1945 - 1950 represent an large segment of the population because of the disruption in the birth rate caused by the dislocation of World War II. As they get older, maintenance of good health and a healthy lifestyle becomes paramount in their existence.


  • Bottled Water Stores? Coming to Your Town!
    [Food-and-Drink] The latest trend in America's love affair with bottled water seems to be a phenomenon called a Water Store, which is catching on quickly all over the country. The first water store was opened by rapper Kanye West and his father Ray. The store is called Good Water, and it was opened in Maryland. Business was so good that they soon opened another one in the Washington, DC area. The premise of Good Water is that of a self-service bottled water store.


  • Purified Water Improves the Taste of Tea and Coffee
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you are a coffee lover or a tea devotee, then you know the feeling whenever you get a cup of your favorite that tastes absolutely delicious. You're the kind of person who will go and purchase a brand new tea or coffee maker just to make sure that you can make an incredible brew any time the mood hits you.


  • Thai Iced Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you have ever eaten in a Thai or perhaps a Vietnamese restaurant, then you have probably seen an interesting orange colored beverage in a tall glass go by with a waiter or waitress you've often wondered just what kind of drink this might be. You're pretty sure it's a Thai drink.... after all, you are in a Thai restaurant! But, just what is it made of?


  • Moroccan Mint Iced Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Mint tea is extremely popular in the country of Morocco. So popular, in fact, that it is more than just a simple and delicious beverage enjoyed daily by the citizens of that country. It is a drink of long tradition, served everywhere - in homes, restaurants, bazaars, at parties and at religious gatherings, weddings and funerals.


  • Honey Pear Iced Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] It's Honey Pear tea. It's an amazingly delicious choice that can't help but stand out among its many rivals in the tea time tests. I tried the Honey Pear black tea, and was blown away. It was superb! An extremely high quality black tea that would have been stunning all by itself, mixed with the flavor of lovely ripe pear and golden honey.


  • White Persian Melon Iced Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Many people who are fond of white tea do not realize how absolutely delicious it can be when prepared and served as iced tea. A variety of white tea known as White Persian Melon is one of the more delicious varieties. It has more flavor than plain white, and an added bonus in the form of the goodness of melon. All varieties of melon are full of antioxidants, too.


  • Southern Sweet Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] You may even find ready to drink teas that proudly proclaim "Southern Style" on their labels, but I guarantee that almost everyone will enjoy the real thing much more. In the southern United States, sweet iced tea is such a traditional beverage that it is simply known as "Tea". No need to mention the sweetness, or the ice! You will find it in almost every Southerner's refrigerator, and it is usually made by the gallon. It's been called both the house wine and the champagne of the South.


  • Iced Vanilla Jasmine Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you have been looking for a new type of tea to try as iced tea for your summertime drinking, look no further than one of the quality varieties of Vanilla Jasmine that are available. Vanilla Jasmine has become a drinker's delight in recent years. Not only is this tea wonderfully fragrant and absolutely delicious when iced, but also available in your favorite tea. You can find Vanilla Jasmine in green, black, white, or oolong varieties. This assortment of varieties could be why Jasmine tea is the most popular flavored brew in the world.


  • Try Refrigerator Tea - An Iced Summer Sensation
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] It's getting to be that time of year when you don't want to do anything that will heat up your kitchen, especially turn on the oven or a burner on the stove! So, you know what that means. Everything possible will be prepared outside on the grill, and everyone is going to drink either sun tea or water - and love it. But, times have changed, and it has been discovered that there can be bacteria in sun tea, in particular a type of bacteria called alcaligenes viscolactis. It seems that this bacterium is in the water. When the jar of sun tea sits in the sun for a couple of hours, the bacteria can grow. The heat of the sun may be enough to brew, but it is not hot enough to kill bacteria.


  • Iced Tea and Your Health
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Perhaps you have heard the news stories about how tea is good for you. Did you realize that this means tea of any temperature? In other words, iced is just as healthy for you as hot. This is a good thing, because many people will more readily drink iced than hot, especially in the summertime.


  • Iced Sinharaja and Other Black Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea lovers have always been inordinately fond of the wide variety of black teas that exist. Black is wonderful when iced, and it has its fans located in every corner of the United States. Connoisseurs have long decided that they want something that is better than the black teas sold at the grocery store, and have gone in search of the highest quality black leaves they can locate.


  • Coconut Pouchong Tea - It's Nice on Ice
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] When the days began to grow longer, and the temperature begins to rise, the calendar becomes almost meaningless. Without even looking at it, I can tell that the season for iced tea has begun. Though I absolutely adore hot tea, there is just something about the iced variety that sings a summer song to me, and I bask in its music as I enjoy the cold, liquid pleasure.


  • Gifts For the Iced Tea Lover
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Is there an iced tea lover on your gift list? A tea related gift would be the perfect way to remember them on their birthday or just because! And, it's never too early, or too late to shop for Christmas. Iced tea lovers will be thrilled to know that you remembered their favorite beverage - any time of year!


  • The History of Iced Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Iced tea is a popular drink in the United States, and is becoming more popular in other countries, though it will probably never reach the level of consumption by Americans. Surveys have shown that around 2.2 billion gallons of tea are consumed in the USA every year, and at least 85 percent of the total is iced. With a host of choices for their iced drinks, such as powdered, canned, and bottled for a quick pick me up, and the traditional brewed drink using either bags or loose leaves, people in the United States have proven their love for this delicious beverage.


  • Pu-erh Chai Iced Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] What's not to like about Chai tea? This wonderfully spicy beverage is enjoyable hot but really comes into its own when it is served as an iced drink. Chai is actually the word for tea in many countries, including Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. There are several different varieties of Chai, but one of the most delicious - and interesting varieties is Pu-erh Chai.


  • Iced Green and White Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Making iced tea for yourself or your family and friends is a gift of love. Tea has so many health benefits, especially green and the newest trend in drinking, white tea. Both of these are full of antioxidants, which contribute to your health in many ways. But white has come to the attention of many health conscious people, because it has been proven to have less caffeine and even more antioxidants than green.


  • A Rose is a Rose - Especially When It's Iced!
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Iced tea is a classic, no matter what time of year it is, although it is generally more popular during warmer weather. During the hottest months, when any exercise at all can bring on perspiration and the general feeling of being locked in a sauna, what better way to refresh, rejuvenate, and prevent dehydration than a tinkling, moisture-beaded glass of iced tea?


  • The Fun of Tea Clubs
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Anyone who becomes a member of a tea club is in for an exciting time! Hopefully, you have decided not only to join such a club, but to join for a full year instead of only 3 months or 6 months. You really need a year's time in which to fully enjoy all of the perks and particulars that go along with being involved in a Tea of the Month club. It is so much fun to try and guess what kinds of tea you will receive each month as you wait in anticipation for them to be delivered to you.


  • Getting the Most From a Tea Club
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] So, you've decided that you want to join one of the many tea clubs that you have seen advertised on the Internet! However, for once you decided not to be hasty about something, and do a little research before committing yourself to a club. That's a smart idea, for there are really quite a few tea clubs out there, and no two are alike.


  • Mother's Day - A Gift of Love- Celebrate it With Tea
    [Home-and-Family:Motherhood] Mother's Day is a special holiday occasion when people show their love, respect, and admiration for mom. Celebrated every year, Mother's Day is an occasion when individuals express their love and respect that they have for their mother. On Mother's Day you can tell your Mom that she will always be important to you all and that you will continue to love her for ever.


  • Unusual Tea Gifts
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There are so many wonderful and unusual gifts available for the tea lover that you just might have a hard time deciding on which one you want to present to them! Even those who aren't big tea fans would be thrilled to receive some of these innovative items as a gift! Here are a few of the most interesting tea gifts that are just waiting to make someone very happy!


  • Tea - The Gift That Keeps On Giving
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] A gift of gourmet tea is a wonderful way to remember someone's special occasion. No two gift baskets are ever going to be exactly the same, so in a way you are giving a one of a kind gift! It's easy to find a professional gift basket shop online, who will work with you to make sure that the tea gift basket that you have pictured in your mind will come to fruition with just a bit of effort and creativity. Your recipient will be delighted, and so will you!


  • Give Them Health With A Tea Gift Basket
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Is there a tea lover on your gift list? Or, do you have a special friend who enjoys tea that you'd like to surprise with a "just because" gift? How about a lovely tea gift basket? A gift like this is always appropriate, and is always well received. And, who knows... you might get invited to stay for a cup of tea when you deliver the gift to them!


  • Why The Tea Kettle Is So Popular
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea is the most popular beverage in the world, and so tea paraphernalia is vastly popular in every country of the world. Tea kettles are especially beloved, as they are the means by which water is heated for that beloved cup of tea. People who awake in the night to find that their home is on fire have been known to run to the kitchen and grab their tea kettle in order to save it from the flames!


  • Which Tea Kettle - Stove Top Or Electric?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] People have been drinking tea for more than 5000 years, and they show no sign of stopping anytime soon. In fact, it seems as if all varieties of tea get a host of new fans with each new generation of young people who come of age.


  • The World Of The Tea Kettle
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] People who are not regular tea drinkers sometimes get the various bits of tea terminology confused. You would be amazed at how many times I have heard others get all mixed up when it comes to tea kettles and tea pots. They use the terms interchangeably, and it's enough to make a true tea connoisseur react as if hearing fingernails run down a chalkboard!


  • Tea Cup Etiquette
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Back during the turn of the century, there were so many different traditions, questions on what to say or do, or how to behave in certain situations that are closely related to tea cups and tea. Many of them have faded into the past like so much vapor, while some still hang in the air like smoke. These are still in use by those who still practice the art of daily tea time.


  • Tea Cup Collecting
    [Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Collecting tea cups and saucers can be a very satisfying hobby that any age can participate in. Even pre-teens seem to enjoy learning the history behind the different styles and types of tea cups and their matching saucers. Grandmothers may still have cup and saucer sets from their youth that could be the basis of a teacup collection which would bring them many hours of joy.


  • Tea Clubs - A Tea Lover's Dream
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] It wasn't all that long ago that there was no such thing as a tea club. No was was able to experience the sheer bliss of receiving a new and different type of tea every month to try out for the first time ever. Can you imagine how much fun it must have been to be one of the first few people to take part in a "Tea of the Month" club?


  • Purified Water Is The Best Bottled Water
    [Food-and-Drink] As more impurities are discovered in public water supplies across the country, some people are seeking alternatives to using their taps to quench thirst, cook, brush teeth and more. When bottled water is the choice, purified products are often considered the best.


  • The World of Teapot Design for the Best Cup of Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] You might be surprised to learn that there are hundreds of different designs and styles of teapots available for sale today. Why so many? Different people use teapots for different things. Some want them merely for decorative purposes, while others enjoy the subtle change in the taste of their favorite tea when it is brewed in a pot made out of a different material than what they are used to. There are many ways to enjoy all of the many and varied types of teapots that we have available to us.


  • Collectible Teapots for the Tea Experience
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Many people started a teapot collection back when they were a child, and are still adding to it today. Teapots are one of the most popular collectibles, maybe because there are so many different kinds and types of them. And, every sort of teapot is considered collectible by someone, be it a child with her little teapot that is shaped like the candy house in the story of Hansel and Gretel, or the erudite historian with his Japanese Tetsubin teapot from the 19th century that is worth a small fortune.


  • A History of Teapots - How to Improve the Tea Experience
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Do you ever wonder about the first teapots and what they were like as you are pouring yourself a cup of tea from your lovely porcelain teapot? Historians aren't 100 percent sure where the teapot originated.


  • Recession Relief - Quality Loose Leaf Specialty Tea for Independent Coffee Shops
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Make no doubt about it - the country is in a recession and consumer spending is being cut back, High priced coffee is affected and even Starbucks is suffering and cutting back. Independent coffee shops are affected as well.


  • Caffeine Offer More Benefits Than Concerns for Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As the obesity rate in America reaches what many call an epidemic, the quest for weight loss aids, remedies and boosters sometimes includes substances that are less than desirable. When it comes to caffeine and ephedrine, however, some researchers believe the benefits far outweigh the concerns. Despite the beliefs, however, a ban on Ephedra remains in effect in the United States. Caffeine, however, is still widely in use.


  • Oolong Tea Is A Proven Fat Fighter
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] As the detrimental health impacts of obesity become even clearer, more people are searching for ways to gain an edge in the battle of the bulge. With obesity in America an ever-present concern, the fad, gadget and specialty food market is booming. Dropping pounds for the sake of appearances and for the sake of health is a very big trend indeed. Although some items simply do not work, one very basic drink stands out as a powerful weapon to add to an arsenal for fat fighting.


  • Tea Impacts On China - Green Tea And The Global Trade
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] China's love affair with green tea is believed to have begun thousands of years ago. It took centuries for the Chinese to share this secret with their neighbors in Japan and even longer for the country to begin exporting this bountiful crop to destinations all over the world.


  • Taxing Tea - A British Tradition
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] While British citizens likely saw the first importations of tea from the Orient in the 1500 to 1600s as a sensation that added a little spark to their traditional coffee houses, the government saw something else - money. As this beverage quickly became the favored choice of the lower classes, British nobility saw a way to line the coffers of government.


  • Private Label Bottled Water For Beach Businesses
    [Business:Advertising] Many businesses have grown around beach areas as enterprising businesspeople try to take advance caused by the large increase in services and goods demanded by the large increase in visitors. At most beaches many companies compete for the same market and word of mouth advertising is very important to the success of a beach business.


  • History Of Green Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Green tea has a history that dates back thousands of years. Although this particular type of tea is only now gaining major notoriety in the West, it has been known to the Chinese and Japanese for centuries. This type of tea is less heavily processed than its counterpart made from the same leaves, but despite this fact, it has not been a heavy export from Asia until the past few years.


  • The World Of Green Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Although it's been known in places like China and Japan for thousands of years, the green tea sensation is just now sweeping countries in North America and Europe. This tea is now well known and loved for its smooth flavor and incredible benefits. Green tea, in fact, is enjoyed with extra flavors, such as honey and lemon or citrus, as an iced tea drink and steeped and steamed like other forms of tea.


  • The Truth About Bottled Spring Water vs Purified Water
    [Reference-and-Education] Spring water bottled water companies are very good about manipulating the image of their water and hiding the truth about purity. Images about bubbling mountain springs, fresh water glacier run off, frothy fresh water streams and other scenes that imply purity are nothing more than hype and spin that would make even the most seasoned politician blush.


  • The Real Truth About Bottled Water, Purified Water and Tap Water
    [Reference-and-Education] There has been substantial information and misinformation about bottled water and its value and beneficial effects. Many people and organizations have joined the argument and the pros and cons have been widely discussed. As a result there has been a significant amount of disinformation distributed and discussed.


  • Private Label Bottled Water and Summertime
    [Business:Advertising] Word of mouth advertising is very effective in industries like hotel and lodging, spas, banking, law firms, outdoor landscaping and other professional services and a recommendation from a satisfied customer can promote a brand message more effectively than most other forms of advertising. This is particularly true during outdoor activities and events during the steamy hot days of summer. Word of mouth acts as a testimonial to customer satisfaction and the endorsement of a satisfied customer can be repeated over and over again.


  • Tea, Sugar and Slavery
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Of all the evils that have affected mankind, slavery or human bondage ranks among the worst. Slavery, in all its various forms from ancient empires like Rome to the ante bellum American South to the slave labor of Hitler's Third Reich and the Soviet Gulags has ruined millions of lives and degraded many cultures throughout history.


  • Private Labeled Bottled Water - Quality Counts
    [Business:Advertising] The market for private labeled bottled water has grown dramatically as more and more companies realize the value of this low cost, highly effective means of advertising and brand enhancement. More and more companies are turning to private labeled bottled water as consumable advertising that creates word of mouth advertising that is critical to businesses that face heavy competition. Originally the private labeled bottled water business was characterized by low quality ...


  • A Persian Memory - Melon Tea and Beautiful Carpets
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the most popular art forms is Persian Carpet art and these carpets are treasured by collectors and the public at large. A quality Persian Carpet in any home makes a statement about taste and quality.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan - The Internet, Ecommerce and Affiliate Programs
    [Business:Strategic-Planning] E-commerce is the sale of products and services over the Internet. It is the fastest growing segment of our economy. It allows even the smallest business to reach a global audience with its product or message with minimal cost.


  • Tea and Alcoholism - A Long History
    [Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] Anyone who suffers from alcoholism knows that it is an incurable disease that is as insidious as it is devastating. But with total abstinence from drink and the use of support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous recovery can be life long.


  • Production of Tea - Orthodox Tea vs CTC (Crush, Tear, Curl) Tea.
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Most orthodox teas are produced in China, Sri Lanka, Darjeeling and Assam. They represent about 31% of world tea production. An additional 25% is green and oolong tea. This means that about 55% or over one half of all tea produced is processed by the orthodox form of processing.


  • History of Tea in Hong Kong - Tea, Opium and the Balance of Trade
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea is more than a beverage in Hong Kong - it is a way of life ingrained in the very essence of the culture. But it must be noted that Hong Kong is not a producer of tea, nor is it merely a consumer of fine Chinese tea. Hong Kong played one of the most important roles in the introduction of Chinese tea to the west in general and Britain in particular, but this role was won at a very high price.


  • Enjoy a French Breakfast Treat With Real French Breakfast Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Breakfast teas are named such because they are a bit stronger than other teas, designed to open the eyes, just like coffee. They also typically go very well with food, so that they are easily enjoyed along with whatever you're eating in the morning, as well as on their own. Breakfast teas are nearly always made from black tea, as this is the most robust tea, and has the most caffeine.


  • Honey Pear Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Take, for example, Honey Pear Tea. This is a very high quality black tea blended with ripe pear and smooth honey. The flavor is sweet and full bodied, with a Middle Eastern feeling to it. It's truly one of the most delicious tea combinations you'll find, whether you drink it iced or hot.


  • Rose Tea - A Sophisticated Yet Simple Rose Flavor
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Some of the best combinations are some of the simplest ones. Rose tea, for example, is one of the oldest flavored teas available. Roses impart a wonderful bouquet to tea, but also give it a very subtle and sophisticated floral taste that is wonderful on its own or with many types of food. But, not all floral teas are created equal.


  • Tippy Earl Grey Tea Makes the Best Earl Grey Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Blended and specialty teas are very popular right now. You'll find endless combinations of tea varieties with any number of flavorings, including fruit flavors, spices and herbs. And with this new popularity, you can expect to see many new flavors coming out in the future.


  • The Experience of Chai
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you've yet to experience rich, decadent chai, get ready for a real treat. Chai (rhymes with 'pie') is actually the word for tea in many parts of the world. Chai is a spiced mild tea that originated in India.


  • Basket Gift Tea as a Business Opportunity
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] When gift baskets first appeared on the scene, many thought they were a short term fad and would soon disappear from the scene. This is clearly not the case...


  • A Steaming Cup of Tea on a Perfect Fall Day
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Fall to me is the best season of the year, not too hot and not too cold with beautiful nature all around. As the nights become cooler and the trees start to change color, fall emerges as a way to remember the events of summer and as a time to prepare for the cold of winter.


  • Darjeeling Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're a tea drinker, you've no doubt sampled a Darjeeling tea. Darjeeling is one of the most popular teas in the world, and it is grown only in India. Darjeeling has been around for many years, but even today, it is a best seller.


  • Choosing a Tea Company
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] So, how do you choose a good tea company? Well, there are several things to look for to make a good choice in your tea provider. Once you've found a good tea company, you can rest assured that you'll get high quality tea each and every time you purchase from them. Here are some things to look for when choosing a tea company.


  • Sinharaja Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're looking for a special tea, perhaps for a special event, or just to give yourself a special treat, give Sinharaja tea. This black tea is one of the most unique and flavorful you'll ever taste, and it's sure to become one of your all time favorite teas.


  • Tea of the Month Club and Other Tea Gifts for the Holidays
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The popularity of tea increases daily and there are many reasons to include tea in your diet and healthy lifestyle. Tea tastes delicious and has many, many varieties and blends and tea is excellent for your health and a healthy diet. An additional benefit offered tea drinkers by a limited number of high quality tea suppliers is tea gifts such as the Tea of the Month Club and other attractive tea based gifts.


  • Growing Quality Tea for Flavored Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea comes in many varieties. And, flavored teas, which are some of the most popular teas, are made from every variety of tea that can be produced. The most important aspect in obtaining a delicious flavored tea is the quality of the tea base.


  • Comparing Ceylon Flavored Teas to Indian Flavored Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Flavored teas are produced all over the world. Because each tea growing region of the world produces tea with slightly different tastes, flavored teas can taste different depending upon the tea base used to create them, including where this tea base is grown.


  • What Are Good Flavored Tea Blends?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There are truly more flavored teas out there than we can taste. To decide which you should try, there are several things you should consider. Taking a look at these items will help you narrow down the many choices in flavored tea.


  • What Are Flavored Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The tradition of flavoring tea goes back many centuries. Nearly as long as tea has been made it has been flavored. However, it is said that the idea for flavoring tea came about as a bit of an accident. Many years ago tea gardeners in China planted other trees to provide shade and moisture for their tea plants.


  • Ordering Vanilla Jasmine Tea Online
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Vanilla jasmine tea is one of the most satisfying flavored teas you'll ever try. A sweet combination of vanilla, jasmine petals and loose tea, it's a great way to warm your body and wind down for the day. While vanilla jasmine tea can be made from white, black, green or oolong teas, it is not as common as you might imagine. But, if you shop with the best online tea vendors, you're sure to be able to find this delicious blend for your own enjoyment.


  • How is Vanilla Jasmine Tea Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If jasmine and vanilla sound like a winning combination for tea to you, you're not alone. Vanilla jasmine tea is a wonderful blend that is sweet and calming, with flavors that appeal to nearly every tea drinker. And, to make it even more universally appealing, vanilla jasmine tea could be made from every variety of tea - so no matter your drinking preference, there's a vanilla jasmine tea for you.


  • Drinking Vanilla Jasmine Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Jasmine tea is the most popular variety of flavored tea. And, vanilla jasmine is a unique blend of this fine tea, blended especially for extra flavor. If you’ve never tried vanilla jasmine tea, you’re in for a real treat.


  • The Best Vanilla Jasmine Tea Pluckings
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Whenever you’re trying a new tea for the first time, you want to ensure that you get the very best quality in the tea. Vanilla jasmine tea is becoming a favorite of many tea drinkers because of its sweet, comforting and fragrant flavor. And, the flavors of vanilla and jasmine blend so well with any flavor, this tea can be made from green, white, black or oolong teas.


  • What is a Quality Vanilla Jasmine Tea Garden?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The vast majority of those who drink tea have tasted at least one variety of jasmine tea. However, vanilla jasmine tea, one of the most flavorful varieties of jasmine tea, is less familiar. But, you'll not find a more delicious blend of tea than vanilla jasmine in terms of both flavor and aroma.


  • How Are Flavored Teas Different From Other Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Some of the world’s most popular and most widely consumed teas are flavored teas. Adding flavors to tea is centuries old and is a wonderful way to add a new dimension to a favorite variety of tea. With the many combinations of tea varieties and flavorings, nearly any taste is possible. Flavored teas have become as much a part of the world’s tea drinking traditions as the teas that are used to create them.


  • Drinking Flavored Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea has been the world’s most popular beverage for centuries. And it didn’t take long for tea artisans to determine that the only way to make tea better was to add other delicious flavors to it. And, today, tea is available in every flavor imaginable. The most popular teas for flavoring are black teas and green teas, though flavored white and oolong teas are gaining popularity.


  • What are Good Vanilla Jasmine Tea Blends?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Vanilla jasmine tea is unique among many flavored teas. Because jasmine and vanilla’s flavors meld so well with other flavors, good vanilla jasmine tea can be made from any tea variety. There really is no “best” blend of vanilla jasmine tea; it’s really more dependent upon your tastes. But, here are some things you can expect from different blends of vanilla jasmine tea.


  • How are Flavored Teas Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're new to flavored teas, there's a real treat in store for you. There's a tea for every taste and with so many blends to choose, from you'll likely have difficulty deciding on just one or two.


  • Ordering Flavored Tea Online
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you love flavored teas, you've certainly realized that there is an endless variety from which to choose. No matter what flavor you like, there's a tea for you. If you'd like to try a wide variety of flavored teas, you may find it difficult to find all the flavors in your local tea shop. But, by shopping online, you have access to nearly all the flavored teas in the world at the touch of a button.


  • The Best Flavored Tea Pluckings
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're new to flavored teas, no doubt you're wondering how to choose flavored teas of the best quality. The variety of the tea, the country in which it’s grown, the way it's processed, the time it's harvested and the way it's flavored all affect the way a flavored tea will taste. In many varieties of tea, the time of harvest is particularly important, and can be difficult to understand and determine.


  • Vanilla Jasmine Tea - India's Teas Vs Ceylon Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the most delicious blends of tea is vanilla jasmine. There are many varieties of vanilla jasmine tea since it could be made from any type of tea. While jasmine tea has traditionally been made from green tea, vanilla jasmine tea is found as often made from black tea as green.


  • How the Plucking Time Affects Imperial Formosa Oolong Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Imperial Formosa oolong tea is one of the finest oolong teas you can buy, so long as it is produced in a quality tea garden that takes great care in how the tea is harvested and processed. To choose the best Imperial Formosa oolong tea, it’s important to know some things about this tea and how it is harvested and produced.


  • How is Vanilla Jasmine Tea Different From Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There are few flavor combinations in the world that pair so comfortably with any variety of tea as vanilla and jasmine do, and this is one of the unique things about this delicious blend.


  • What is Vanilla Jasmine Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Jasmine tea is the most popular flavored tea in the world. Chinese tea gardeners have been producing this delicacy for at least 700 years. Though jasmine tea is already considered a blend, it is often used as the base for additional blends because of the popularity of the jasmine tea base. Jasmine tea is mild and slightly sweet, making it perfect for combining with other flavors, like vanilla.


  • What is a Good White Licorice Blend?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There are many white teas and white tea blends to choose from. But, you won't find any more delicious than white licorice tea. However, just as with other blends of white tea, to get the best flavor from your white licorice tea, it’s important to choose a good quality blend.


  • Is Imperial Formosa Oolong Tea Available from India or Sri Lanka?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Oolong teas are produced in China, where oolong tea originated, Taiwan, and a small amount is produced in the Darjeeling region of India. Creating oolong tea is a labor intensive process that cannot be managed by large scale tea gardens that produce tea in a mechanized fashion. This is why oolong teas can be rare and harder to find than some other teas.


  • How is Imperial Formosa Oolong Tea Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you’re new to oolong teas, you must give them a try. Oolong teas are flavorful and fragrant, with a more complex taste than you’ll find in many other tea varieties. And, Imperial Formosa Oolong tea is one of the best oolong teas available. It’s unlikely you’ll find an oolong tea with more flavor or character than Imperial Formosa oolong tea.


  • How Is Imperial Formosa Oolong Different From Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Many tea drinkers are unfamiliar with Imperial Formosa oolong teas. Oolong teas, in general, are not as well known in the Western world as other teas, but they are certainly worth investigating.


  • How Do You Drink Imperial Formosa Oolong Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Most people associate oolong tea with China. And, it's true that China is where oolong tea originated and that most of the oolong tea produced in the world today is produced in China. However, oolong teas from Taiwan, known as Formosa oolong teas are delicious too, and should certainly be part of your regular collection of teas.


  • Delicious Oolong Tea Blends
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're ready for something a little different at tea time, try a flavored oolong tea. Many Westerners have not experienced the delicious flavor of oolong tea in any form. With a different flavor than black, green or white teas, oolongs are a rare treat. When paired with another flavor, oolong teas are quite exceptional.


  • What is Imperial Formosa Oolong Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Oolong teas are rapidly gaining popularity in the Western world. And, among oolong teas, those created in Taiwan, referred to as Formosa oolong teas, are some of the most delicious. If you haven’t tried Formosa oolong tea, you're in for a real treat.


  • Tea: White Licorice Tea: India's White Teas Compared to Ceylon White Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] White Licorice tea is a delicious white tea blends made by combining the finest white tea with a licorice flavor, such as star anise or licorice root.


  • Tea: Jasmine Tea: India's Teas Vs. Ceylon Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The most popular blend of flavored tea in the world is Jasmine tea. If you’ve never tried one of the many varieties of jasmine tea, you’ve missed a real treat. And, in fact, there are an endless variety of jasmine teas from which to choose. There are likely many more varieties of jasmine tea in the world than you’re even aware of.


  • Tea: Grading Jasmine Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Jasmine tea is the most popular flavored tea in the world. The first jasmine tea was produced in China and made from green tea. Today, however, jasmine flowers are used to scent teas from all over the world, in black, white, green and oolong varieties.


  • What is Oolong Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One variety of tea that is very popular in Asia but just gaining recognition in the US is oolong tea. Sometimes referred to as Wulong tea, as well, oolong literally means black dragon.


  • Tea - White Persian Melon Tea - India's White Teas Compared to Ceylon White Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] White Persian Melon tea is one of the most delicious white tea blends you'll find. However, like many other white tea blends, it can be difficult to find.


  • Tea - Ordering Jasmine Tea Online
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Most tea drinkers have tried some form of jasmine tea at one time or another. And, most love at least one variety of jasmine tea. However, there are so many different varieties of jasmine tea that it may take you some time to try them all! Jasmine tea is created by blending just bloomed jasmine petals with fine loose tea. The result is an incredible fragrance and a sweet flavor.


  • Tea - Online Ordering of White Licorice Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Many people who have recently tasted white licorice tea for the first time find themselves frustrated when it comes to finding this delicious white tea blend. Like other white teas, white licorice tea is rare and can only be found in a few tea shops. However, if you know where to look, you can find fine white licorice tea as well as other rare white teas.


  • How is White Licorice Tea Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you haven't tried white tea yet, it's time to get moving. White tea is fast becoming one of the most popular teas because of its delicate flavor and many health benefits. And, for the novice white tea drinker (and the experienced one, too) white licorice tea is a great way to acquaint yourself with the wonderful flavor of white tea.


  • Tea - Drinking Jasmine Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Jasmine tea is the most popular variety of flavored tea. This is, in part because Jasmine has been used to scent and flavor every variety of tea: white, black, green and oolong. So, no matter your preference in tea, there is a Jasmine tea for you.


  • Tea - What Makes a High Quality White Licorice Tea Garden?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Flavored white teas are becoming increasingly popular. White tea is fairly new to the Western world, but is becoming more popular each year. White tea is the mildest of all teas, so it is a natural choice as a base for flavored tea, since the additional flavorings really shine in white tea. One of the most popular flavored white teas is white licorice tea. White licorice tea is a flavorful blend of licorice and the best white tea.


  • Trends in the Wholesale and Retail Loose Leaf Tea Industry
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The tea industry in the United Sates is a growth industry and the role of retailers or value added resellers has played an important part in the overall expansion. Value added resellers and retailers add significant value to the tea industry as they bundle tea offerings with quality dining and other services but they must be supported by comprehensive wholesale programs that are reliable , consistent and profitable.


  • Is the Plucking Time Important When Choosing White Licorice Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In today's tea market, the product gaining popularity the most rapidly is white tea.


  • Tea - What is Jasmine Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the tea blends you simply cannot miss is Jasmine tea. If you've never tried it, you're missing a real treat. Much of the world has already discovered the fragrance and flavor of Jasmine tea. In fact, it is the most popular Chinese flavored tea.


  • Tea - The Best White Persian Melon Tea Pluckings
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you haven't experienced White Persian Melon tea, you've missed a real treat. White Persian Melon tea is a flavorful blend of white tea combined with sweet melon nectar. It's one of healthiest and most refreshing beverages you can drink.


  • Tea - How is Jasmine Tea Different from Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're a tea drinker, it's likely that you've tried jasmine tea. Jasmine tea is the most popular blend of Chinese tea, and has been produced for more than 700 years. It was first produced during the Sung dynasty, by plucking the jasmine leaves as soon as they begin to bloom.


  • Tea - The Best Green Tea Blends
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There are a wide variety of green tea blends out there. It's important to choose the best quality of loose green tea, whether you’re choosing a blend or a single tea. Many tea companies will use lesser quality tea leaves when they're blending the tea with other flavors, because they believe the difference in quality will not be as noticeable.


  • Tea: Make White Licorice Tea the Star of Your Tea Tasting
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Many people have loved the idea of hosting a tea tasting, but felt unsure as to how to go about doing so. Well, if you’d like to host a tea tasting for a few friends, it’s not all that difficult.


  • Tea: How is White Licorice Tea Different from Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you've never experienced White Licorice tea, you’re in for a real treat. White licorice tea is a blend of the finest loose white tea and star anise to provide the licorice flavor. For many years, white tea was consumed almost exclusively in Asia, but today it has gained popularity in many other countries.


  • Tea: How is Green Tea Different from Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] For years, green tea was consumed almost exclusively in Asia. For centuries, green tea has been used by Chinese herbalists to treat many health maladies from menstrual difficulties to headaches. In China and Japan, most people drink green tea all day long. However, here in the Western world it has gained popularity only in the last few years. There are many ways to enjoy green tea, and many things to learn about it. There are several differences between green tea and other types of tea.


  • Tea: Drinking Green Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The art of brewing and drinking green tea has been around for centuries. In fact, green tea has been used for many different tea ceremonies in China and Japan. In these countries, there are rituals that must be followed and tools that must be used in brewing tea to be served to guests.


  • Tea: What is Green Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Green tea has been the most popular drink in Asian countries for centuries. But, in the Western world, black tea has been overwhelmingly more popular than green tea until recently. But, as we have learned more about green tea’s unique taste and many health benefits, it has gained popularity all over the world.


  • Tea- The Best White Tea Pluckings
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] White tea is one of the newest trends in tea drinking. Though white tea has been around for centuries, most people in the Western world are just beginning to enjoy it. It's important to understand the intricacies of how white tea is grown and produced to help you find the very best for your personal collection.


  • Tea - Quality White Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Drinking white tea is the newest trend for many of today's tea drinkers. Drinking white tea, however, is not really new. The Chinese have been drinking white tea since at least the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). It gained greater popularity in China during the Song Dynasty when the emperor Hui Zhong declared white tea to be the most elegant form of tea.


  • Tea- Online Ordering of White Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Compared to the amount of black and green tea grown in the world, there is very little white tea. This makes the tea more expensive and much harder to find. White tea connoisseurs may find that they have very few local stores that carry really good white tea in loose form.


  • Tea- What Are Good White Tea Blends
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the most recent trends in Western tea drinking is white tea. Though white tea has been around for centuries, it has only recently become popular outside of the Asian world. And, even in China and Japan, where most white tea is grown, it was traditionally reserved for special occasions because of its rarity. Today, however, tea drinkers all over the world are enjoying white tea more and more.


  • Tea- What is White Persian Melon Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the finest white teas available is a blend called white Persian melon tea. This tea is a delicious blend of the finest white tea with the addition of refreshing melon.


  • Tea: Ordering White Persian Melon Tea Online
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the best white teas to try when you're new to white tea drinking is white Persian melon tea. I say this because white Persian melon has a fruity taste and is one of the most refreshing white teas on the market. And, white Persian melon can be enjoyed hot or cold, so it’s a very versatile tea.


  • Tea- How is White Persian Melon Tea Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] White tea is quickly gaining popularity in the Western world. Though it has long been praised in Asia, the rest of us are just beginning to get to know this delicate treat. And no other white tea is more delicious than white Persian melon tea. This rare blend of white tea is one that is pleasing to even the most discriminating palate.


  • Tea- How Is White Persian Melon Tea Different From Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're new to drinking white tea, you may be unaware of the many positive health differences between white tea and black tea. And, White Persian melon tea offers even more health benefits than regular white tea.


  • Tea- Drinking White Persian Melon Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the finest white teas available is a blend called white Persian melon tea. This tea blends the finest white tea with melon nectar for a refreshing and fruity taste. Not only does the addition of melon enhance the flavor of the white tea, but it enhances the health benefits, too. Melons are also a potent source of anti-oxidants.


  • Tea- What is White Licorice Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the finest white teas available is a blend called white licorice tea. This tea is a delicious blend of the finest white tea with the addition of sweet and bold licorice flavor from the use of star anise.


  • Tea- How Do You Drink White Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] One of the tea varieties that's most popular today is white tea. White tea comes from the same plant as black and green teas, the camellia sinensis. What makes white tea different is when it is harvested and how it's processed. White tea is harvested much earlier than other teas, before the leaves are fully open.


  • Tea- How is White Tea Different from Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In recent years, white tea has gained great popularity. Tea connoisseurs everywhere have come to appreciate white tea’s delicate, slightly sweet flavor. Though white tea comes from the camellia sinensis plant, just like black tea, green tea and oolong tea, there are several significant differences between white tea and other teas.


  • Tea- How is White Tea Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] White tea has become a very popular drink in recent years. Though it's been grown at least as far back as the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), it is a new beverage to most people in the Western world.


  • Tea- White Tea- India's White Teas Compared to Ceylon White Teas
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] White tea is quickly becoming one of the most popular teas in the world. Tea connoisseurs everywhere are scrambling to learn about the different varieties of white tea and sampling them like made. The vast majority of white tea is grown in China, with Japan being the second most popular place for growing white tea.


  • Tea - What is White Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Because there has been a renewed interest in tea in general, we've seen a lot of new trends in tea drinking, as well. One of the newest and most popular right now is white tea. White tea has a light, sweet taste and is one of the most refreshing teas you can drink. It has many health benefits, too, but many people have never even heard of it.


  • Tea and Meditation - The Basis of a Healthy Lifestyle
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] If one researches the elements of a healthy lifestyle, there are clearly defined elements that are universal to longevity and good health:


  • Tea - What Are Multiple Tea Infusions?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Today, many Chinese and other tea drinkers throughout the tea drinking world, utilize multiple infusion of whole tea leafs as a quality, cost effective way to enjoy tea. The concept of multiple infusions means that high quality whole leaf tea is infused with pure water more than once but the resulting tea drink does not lose any flavor or body.


  • Black Tea - India vs Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Black tea is certainly one of the most intriguing beverages on the market today. It comes in a variety of forms and flavors, making it popular among a diverse cross-section of people. In addition, researchers now believe that black tea may have medicinal qualities—a finding which has increased its stature among health-conscious consumers.


  • What is a Quality Black Tea Garden?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Black tea has helped to revolutionize the beverage market. Over the years, the exotic drink had become the world's most popular tea. In fact, 80 percent of the tea consumed in the U.S. is actually of the black tea variety. Perhaps black tea is so popular because of its boldness—it is darker and stronger than green tea is.


  • Black Tea Online Ordering
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're a fan of black tea, you might have become accustomed to purchasing your favorite blends at a local specialty store, supermarket, or gourmet outlet. However, thanks to the evolution of the Internet, you can now browse for black tea in the privacy of your own home. Ordering black tea online is safe, convenient, and can also be quite cost-effective.


  • What are Good Black Tea Blends?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Black tea has become a favorite beverage of people around the globe—therefore, it's hardly surprising that a number of people are searching for the best black tea blend they can find. Thankfully, because of the wide variety of black tea options on the market, there are plenty of blends from which to choose.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan - Sales, Promotion and Public Relations
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] As a tea wholesaler, you can have the best tea room with the highest quality products and service but if you don’t promote the business properly, your chances of success will be reduced.


  • Black Tea - When Are the Best Pluckings?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Black tea has become a worldwide phenomenon. In cafes and coffeehouses, teahouses and trendy bistros, black tea has become a favorite beverage of tea drinkers around the globe. The uniqueness of black tea lies in the processing procedure that helps to give the beverage its magnificent flavor and consistency.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan - Mission, Strategy and Tactics
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Establishing a Mission Statement will force the tea room owner to fine tune the value added proposition and creating and implementing a strategy through defined tactics and goals will increase the chances of success for the new tea room venture.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan - Market Research
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Market research is critical to achieving business goals but, like everything else, it can be overdone. The keys to good market research are relevance, focus and economy. This is especially true fro the tea room as a new business.


  • How Do You Drink Black Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Perhaps you've never been a tea drinker before, but you've decided to give it a whirl. Or maybe you already drink standard varieties of tea, but you'd like to try black tea for a change of pace. In any case, you're wondering how you should go about drinking this unusual full-bodied beverage.


  • How is Black Tea Graded?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] You may have only recently learned the many benefits of drinking black tea. As a result of what you've heard about black tea's potential medicinal effects and its unique taste, you may be prompted to learn even more about this intriguing beverage. Consequently, you may be curious about how black tea is graded.


  • How is Black Tea Different from Other Teas?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There is plenty of evidence to suggest that drinking tea can be a healthy experience. Tea contains ingredients which may be beneficial in the fight against heart disease, cancer, and various stress-related illnesses. In the Western World, green tea has gotten a great deal of attention in recent years. However, black tea remains a popular beverage worldwide. If you are not familiar with black tea, you may be wondering how it differs from other brews.


  • What is Black Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] If you're in the dark about black tea, you're certainly not alone. A number of people are unfamiliar with this unique, soothing beverage. However, once you learn about black tea, you may be tempted to trade in your daily cup of java for a mug of tea. Let's take a closer look at what makes black tea so special.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan - The Value Added Proposition
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Business does not exist in a vacuum and you will not be successful just because you are a nice person. Business doesn't work that way.


  • Wholesale Tea - What are the Elements of a Good Wholesale Tea Program?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea wholesalers are a very important part of the loose leaf tea business but they must work with a reliable supplier that produces only the highest quality tea and offer a business model that allows the wholesaler long term, sustainable profitability.


  • Green Tea for Weight Loss and Lower Cholesterol
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In addition to making lifestyle and diet changes, many people take supplements to help control their weight and cholesterol levels. There are many supplements available, but one of the best is something you likely have in your cupboard right now. It's tea – particularly green tea.


  • Reducing Cholesterol And Body Fat With Tea
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In addition to helping prevent disease, tea has also been shown to be an effective way to help lose weight.


  • Wholesale Tea and Fine Dining – The Secret is in the Loose Leaf Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Almost everyone enjoys a first-class meal in a four star hotel or restaurant; the memory of a fine dining experience is one that lasts.


  • Loose Leaf Tea in the United States - A Short History
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The market for loose leaf tea in the United States is growing strongly as tea drinkers from all walks of life rediscover the taste, health benefits and value of loose leaf tea.


  • Why Drink Green Tea - Three Reasons To Enjoy A Popular Beverage
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] After water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world and there are good reasons for this popularity. One of the most popular forms of tea is green tea and there are a number of reasons why so many people enjoy this beverage.


  • Tea and Gift Baskets - A Perfect Combination
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In any relationship thinking about the other person and making their day happy and memorable is what it is all about. One great way to create that moment of happiness is to send the other person a unique gift basket with quality products and a thoughtful message. A gift basket says that you care for and are thinking about the other person and that memory will be repeated again and again as they use the basket and the quality products the basket contains.


  • Tea - What is White Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Like all teas, white tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. The leaves are picked and harvested before the leaves open fully, when the buds are still covered by fine white hair. This gives the tea its name.. White tea is scarcer than the other traditional teas, but many tea drinkers prefer white tea over all others.


  • Tea- Black Tea is Good for Your Heart
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In the United States, more people die each year from heart disease and stroke than any other illness. And, the saddest part is that most of the causes of heart disease are completely preventable. While it's true that heredity plays a part in heart disease, lifestyle plays a more important role for most people. So, what can you do to help prevent heart disease? Well, there are three areas to consider when attempting to reduce your risk of heart disease.


  • Tea - Are Tea's Anti-oxidants Really Useable By the Body?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In recent years, tea has gained a great deal of attention for its ability to protect our health and prevent disease. But, many have wondered if the anti-oxidants in tea are actually absorbed by our bodies in enough quantity to really be helpful, or if we're better off taking supplements.


  • Tea - Can Tea Drinking Reverse Endothelial Dysfunction?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Endothelial dysfunction is a precursor to heart disease. It is often seen years before actual heart disease. In fact, it is estimated that about half of those over the age of 40 have endothelial dysfunction.


  • Tea- Are Black Tea's Anti-Oxidants as Effective as Green Tea's?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In recent years, scientists have been discovering the benefits of drinking tea. Tea's anti-oxidants have become the source of much discussion for their ability to prevent disease and slow the aging process. We've learned that tea drinking can be a simple way to help preserve your health.


  • Tea- Can Tea Reduce Your Stress Level?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Our lives are busier today than ever. We work longer hours and have hectic family lives, too. All of this activity can lead to higher stress levels, and the physical symptoms that accompany such high stress levels.


  • Tea- Earl Grey Tea - Who Was Earl Grey?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Earl Grey tea is a popular flavored black tea named after an historic figure in 19th century England. Earl Grey's existence and historic accomplishments are well documented but his influence on the tea that bears his name is less clear.


  • Wholesale Tea - The Role of Value Added Wholesalers in the Tea Distribution Chain
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] As tea grows in popularity in the United States, channels of distribution of this fine product are expanding and becoming more efficient. A major part of the entire distribution channel is the tea wholesaler that provides value added products and services to the tea offering.


  • Tea - High Tea and Afternoon Tea - What's the Difference?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There are two forms of tea that often cause confusion in the tea world: tea the drink and tea the meal. Tea the drink is made from the Camellia Sinensis plant and from the processing of the plant white, green, oolong, and black teas are produced. The basic teas are also often blended with other plants like vanilla, mint and melon as well as flavors like Oil of Bergamot to make Earl Grey Tea.


  • Can Oolong Tea Help Men Lose Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It seems that we're all fighting the battle of the bulge. Especially as we get older, it seems to get harder to keep the pounds at bay. We often think of women as being the dieters, but in fact, men are just as subject to weight problems as women.


  • Improve Your Diet With Tea and Strength Training
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It seems that many of us are dieting today. And, we're always looking for ways to make dieting easier and more effective. Of course, we know that diet and exercise are critical components of any weight loss or weight maintenance program, but there are some other tricks you can use to help make your dieting more productive and less restrictive.


  • Long Term Green Tea Consumption and Body Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's no secret that Asian countries have far lower incidences of overweight and obesity than most other parts of the world. And, even as they age, Asians don't seem to put on the age related pounds that plague many cultures. And, of course, it's no secret that Asians drink large amounts of green tea.


  • Should You Consume Caffeine to Lose Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] People seeking to lose weight are typically anxious to hear about any trick to make weight loss easier. One way to help speed weight loss is to find ways to speed up the metabolism, so that more calories are burned in a day.


  • Use Green Tea as Part of Your Weight Loss Efforts
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many of us are on a quest to lose weight. According to polls, approximately 40 percent of all women are on a diet at any given time. Yet, overweight and obesity continue to be one of our nation's leading health problems.


  • Wholesale Tea and Tea Wholesalers - The Benefits of a Total Program
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea wholesalers are an important, if sometimes overlooked, segment of the loose leaf tea business and they add significant value to the tea marketing and distribution process.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan - Start Up
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Although there are many opportunities for tea rooms as successful businesses, success requires planning. But before the planning process starts the budding entrepreneur needs to evaluate their personal psychological, emotional and financial preparation for the task ahead.


  • The Tea Room Business Plan – Basic Concepts
    [Business:Strategic-Planning] Business planning and the start of a new tea room venture is more of a process than an event. A new business is a separate entity that is very much like a garden: planning is required to start, certain mandatory steps are required and constant management and pruning must occur to produce a successful venture.


  • Tea: What Makes for a Quality Tea Experience?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea is more than a beverage – it is a way of life that leads to well being and satisfaction and it is healthy and tastes good as well.


  • The Benefits of Tea Catechins
    [Health-and-Fitness] In recent years, tea has attracted a lot of attention for its many health benefits. For years Asian cultures have used tea for many medical purposes, and science is proving out what Asians seem to have known all along – tea has many healthy benefits.


  • Green Tea’s Weight Loss Magic – It's Not the Caffeine
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Green tea is a potent source of anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants are important to our bodies because they fight the free radicals created as a by-product of digestion. These free radicals damage our cells and DNA, causing aging and disease. Therefore, a regular dose of anti-oxidants is beneficial to our health.


  • More Evidence that Green Tea Blocks Fat Absorption
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In recent years, green tea has gained a lot of attention for its health benefits. Many studies have been conducted that have shown various ways that green tea helps keep you healthy. Among these findings include evidence that green tea helps lower cholesterol, reduces your risk of heart disease and cancer, and helps you lose weight.


  • How Tea and Caffeine Can Help You Control Your Waistline
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Green tea alone has been shown to promote fat loss, speed up metabolism and even inhibit the absorption of dietary fat. However, it appears that when green tea is combined with additional caffeine, it may have even more impact on your ability to lose weight.


  • Using Tea to Reduce Your Cholesterol
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Another way to help reduce LDL cholesterol levels is to drink tea. Green tea has been shown in many studies to help prevent LDL cholesterol from oxidizing and turning into plaque. These studies have suggested that even if your LDL cholesterol level is high, drinking tea may prevent it from causing a problem.


  • Can Green Tea and Caffeine Help You Maintain Weight Loss?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you need to lose weight, it’s critical that you make changes to your diet and your physical activity level


  • Can Drinking Tea Make You Live Longer?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Over the years there’s been tons of research on the benefits of tea to our health. And, as we learn more and more, it’s becoming clear that drinking tea may be one of the best things we can do to protect our health and prolong our lives. The University of Toronto Medical Journal outlines the many benefits that drinking tea can offer


  • Improve Your Health and Wellbeing With Wu Long Tea-Benefits of Drinking Wu Long Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] The Wu long (also referred to as oolong) family of teas is characterized by a partial oxidation process that is controllable by varying degrees of heat. Wu long tea has the benefits and taste of both Green Tea and the fully oxidized Black Tea.


  • What is Tea Cupping and Why is Tea Cupping Important?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea cupping is a combination of art and science that is used by tea lovers throughout the world to maintain tea quality and tea drinking satisfaction.


  • Where to Buy Quality Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] For over 5,000 years tea drinkers have enjoyed the taste and health benefits of high quality loose leaf tea. Those individuals that included tea in a lifestyle of exercise and diet have come to learn that teapot only tastes good, but tea also creates a feeling of well being and life satisfaction. No product has had more false starts than that of loose leaf tea however. Nor has any product had a more devoted, patient following than the proponents of loose leaf tea. These long suffering supporters were waiting for the day that loose leaf tea would come into its own. Now, it seems, even tea vendors and tea connoisseurs will finally have their wish.


  • Tea Drinking in The United States
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] There is growing resurgence of demand for loose leaf tea in the United States however, driven by a greater awareness of the health benefits and quality of the loose leaf tea experience. As demand increases, new opportunities arise for the entrepreneur who wishes to market and sell loose leaf tea.


  • Personalized Tea Bags Offer Quality and Convenience at Home, in the Office and While Traveling
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] For those tea drinkers who enjoy the finest loose leaf teas however, there is now a way to easily prepare their own bagged tea without sacrificing quality and the enjoyment associated with brewing quality tea.


  • Are There Really Effective Weight Loss Supplements?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Green tea can be an effective weight loss supplement, and has virtually no side effects. In addition, green tea offers many health benefits. Green tea has been shown to lower cholesterol and prevent many diseases like heart disease and cancer. So, green tea is one weight loss supplement that can be added to your diet with the knowledge that it’s an overall healthy dietary change.


  • More Evidence That Tea Helps with Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Every little bit of help is useful when you’re trying to lose weight or keep your weight stable as you get older. Diet and exercise are still the most important components of weight loss and maintenance, but studies are showing that tea, particularly green tea, may be able to provide some assistance in losing weight and keeping it off.


  • Weight Loss Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Tea has been shown to speed up the metabolism and help oxidize fat. It may also have the ability to inhibit the absorption of dietary fat into the body.


  • Tea's Potential for Weight Loss
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Several studies have shown tea to have the ability to aid in weight loss by raising your metabolic rate. In addition, tea seems to inhibit the absorption of the fat in your diet, which may help you lose weight, as well.


  • How Does Green Tea Help Weight Loss?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One product that seems to have much promise in helping people to lose weight is green tea. In some studies, green tea has been shown to help regulate insulin and lower cholesterol and triglycerides. In addition, it is believed that green tea speeds up the metabolism, so that we burn fat faster, and can even turn off the receptors that make us want to eat.


  • History of Tea - Taxes and Smuggling in 18th Century England
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea production and distribution became big business throughout the world as enterprising individuals and companies invested in tea plantations and distribution assets to meet the growing demand for tea. As the business expanded, national governments began to view tea as a valuable source of revenue. Government regulation and taxation often had a detrimental effect on free commerce and customer satisfaction however.


  • Tea's Health Protection
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea is one of the best sources of anti-oxidants. This plant contains many different forms of anti-oxidant, with EGCG being the most plentiful. EGCG makes up about 30% of tea's total anti-oxidant value. And, this is good news because EGCG is a very potent anti-oxidant.


  • The Scoop on Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Today's researchers are discovering what Asian cultures have known for many years: tea is good for you. A lot of the attention that tea has received has come from recognition that Asian cultures, where tea is heavily consumed have far lower risk of many diseases than many other cultures where tea is consumed in smaller quantities.


  • Does Caffeine Increase Your Risk of Colo-rectal Cancer?
    [Cancer:Colon-Rectal-Cancer] One study, reported by the UK Tea Council, attempted to answer this question. The study observed men and women beginning in the early 1980s, and continuing on until 1998. The study observed dietary habits, other factors, among them caffeine consumption through drinking coffee or tea. Throughout the course of the study, just over 1400 cases of colo-rectal cancer were observed. The study noted no increase in the incidence of colo-rectal cancer in those people who drank tea or coffee over those who did not consume these caffeinated beverages. So, researchers concluded that drinking tea and coffee with caffeine is perfectly safe and does not increase your colo-rectal cancer risk.


  • Green Tea as a Treatment for Myeloid Leukemia
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] As with other forms of cancer, research is ongoing to help find ways to prevent and treat myeloid leukemia. There have been vast improvements in treatment of this disease in recent years. One study is of particular interest because it examines the use of a very common beverage- green tea to help treat myeloid leukemia.


  • Using Green Tea to Help Prevent Heart Disease
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Drinking green tea each day may be the easiest thing you can do to protect your heart. Many studies in recent years have pointed to green tea as an effective way to prevent many forms of disease, including cardiovascular disease.


  • Just How Does Green Tea Prevent Cancer?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] We've understood for sometime that green tea has many cancer preventing qualities. Study after study has shown that green tea can prevent many types of cancer, and that it is useful in preventing some forms of cancer, as well. Let's look at some of the research.


  • Beating Heart Disease with Green Tea
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] One study, reported by the UK Tea Council also showed that green tea may have the ability to lower our triglyceride numbers, which also may reduce heart disease.


  • Preventing Prostate Cancer
    [Cancer:Prostate-Cancer] The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial is a document that examines all of these possible preventers, and looks at the evidence that exists to support their effectiveness. This report has been published by the UK Tea Council and covers much of the research that supports the theory that green tea can prevent prostate cancer. In addition, this report discusses the strides made in prostate cancer prevention, and why this cancer in particular should be a target for prevention, rather than treatment.


  • Green Tea as a Preventer of Stomach Cancer
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Anti-oxidants are known cancer preventers because they fight the free radicals created in our bodies as we convert food to energy. These free radicals damage cells and DNA, leading to disease. But, a diet rich in anti-oxidants can neutralize these free radicals, preventing their damage.


  • Does Caffeine Cause Atrial Fibrillation?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] One study, reported by the UK Tea Council, suggests that caffeine consumption is safe for those at risk for the disease. This study, conducted in Denmark, examined nearly 48,000 participants, each over the age of 56. Their caffeine consumption was analyzed over a period of years, as was their health information, including whether or not they went on to develop atrial fibrillation. The study concluded that caffeine consumption was not at all related to whether or not participants developed the heart disorder. The associated researchers did not recommend that those at risk for atrial fibrillation discontinue the consumption of caffeine.


  • Protecting Endothelial Platelet Function to Prevent Heart Disease
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The benefits of green tea and other foods high in anti-oxidants for preventing heart disease are outlined in a study reported by the UK Tea Council.


  • Green Tea's Effect on Body Fat
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In recent years, green tea has gained a lot of attention for its ability to protect health and prevent disease. Green tea has been shown to prevent heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and even Type II diabetes. But, more and more, we're finding out that green tea may have lots of potential to help weight loss, too.


  • What Foods Hold the Most Weight Loss Protection?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A final food that is likely functional to weight loss is green tea. Green tea has been shown to help regulate blood sugar naturally, which may help us store fewer calories as fat. Secondly, green tea has been shown to promote thermogenesis; heat that burns body fat.


  • Can Green Tea Protect Liver Transplant Patients?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In recent years, green tea has gained a lot of attention for its ability to prevent diseases and keep us healthy. Most of the attention has been on green tea's ability to prevent cancer and heart disease, and some of the research results in this area have been quite promising.


  • Does Drinking Black Tea Increase Blood Pressure?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Tea has gained a lot of attention in recent years for its ability to decrease the risk of heart disease. Green tea, in particular has been shown to prevent heart disease.


  • Green Tea and Hormone Related Cancers
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] It's beginning to become apparent to the medical community that drinking green tea has many health benefits, including the prevention of cancer. This is incredibly exciting news, particularly since cancer is one of the most insidious and feared diseases in our society today.


  • Wu Long Teas and Weight Loss After the Holidays
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] For most people the holidays like Christmas, Chanukah and New Years are special occasions that allow families to reunite and spend quality time together. Accompanying the festivities are often parties and dinners that can result in weight gain. Many people often seek ways to reduce weight after the holidays are over. In addition to exercise and a healthy diet, the use of Wu long tea (also spelled oolong tea or wu long tea) is growing in popularity as a wholesome and flavorful way to limit weight gain.


  • Green Tea or Black for Preventing Breast Cancer?
    [Cancer:Breast-Cancer] In recent years there has been an abundance of research investigating the benefits of green and black tea on preventing disease. And, the results have been divided. Depending on the health condition being evaluated, some studies have shown green tea to be more effective, while others have shown green and black tea to be equally effective.


  • What Makes Tea So Effective At Preventing Heart Disease?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Many bodies of research have shown that tea is effective at preventing heart disease in several ways. Tea prevents the oxidation of LDL cholesterol into plaque, the hard substance that clogs our arteries, making us more susceptible to heart attacks and strokes. Tea is also thought to have an anti-inflammatory effect, which helps the heart in its overall function.


  • Can I Add Milk to My Tea?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Green tea is a preferred source of anti-oxidants because it contains EGCG, one of the most potent anti-oxidants around. EGCG is 100 times more powerful than many vitamins known to be potent anti-oxidants, like Vitamins C and E.


  • Green Tea and the Skin
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Since products of this nature are largely unregulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, claims on the products are sometimes largely unsubstantiated. In most cases, we just have to try these products out and see for ourselves. However, one of these products, green tea, does have some evidence to back up its claims of rejuvenating the skin and preventing aging. Several studies have shown that green tea’s anti-oxidants are beneficial to the skin in several ways.


  • The Health Benefits of Black Tea
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Tea is the second most popular beverage in the world, after water. And, in all parts of the world except Asia, the vast majority of the tea consumed is black tea. Scientists have uncovered many healthful benefits of drinking tea, making drinking this very popular beverage a very healthy habit to get into.


  • Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence with Green Tea
    [Cancer:Breast-Cancer] In recent years, lots of research has been performed on green tea’s ability to prevent and treat breast cancer. The news has been extremely promising; it appears that as we learn more, we’ll eventually determine that green tea is, indeed, one of the simplest things we can do to protect breast health. Since about 13% of all American women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime, breast health is a significant concern for all of us.


  • Green Tea’s Ability to Slow Growth of Cancer Cells
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] Nearly all of us are aware that green tea has gained attention for research results showing that it can prevent, and possibly even treat, cancer. Green tea has been shown in many studies to have the ability to slow the growth of abnormal cells, and act as a scavenger against them.


  • Green Tea for Weight Control and Maintenance
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Using green tea can be an effective way to help you lose weight, even without additional caffeine consumption. This is important news for those who wish to lose weight, but have difficulty with caffeine. Because green tea is much lower in caffeine content than most other caffeinated beverages, it is better tolerated than many other forms of caffeine. For those who do tolerate caffeine well, nearly any caffeinated beverage seems to help you lose weight.


  • Green Tea's Benefits to Cardiovascular Health
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Most of us know that one of the leading contributors to heart disease is high cholesterol. And, we've all been told to limit our saturated fats to help lower our cholesterol levels. But, what you may not realize is that simply drinking green tea you can help reduce the effects of the cholesterol in your diet, and reduce your risk of heart disease, too.


  • Anti-oxidants for the Skin – Can They Make a Difference?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Green tea has some of the most powerful anti-oxidants available. And, they're apparently just as effective when applied to the skin as they are when part of a healthy diet. Green tea has been shown to rejuvenate skin, actually reactivating dying skin cells. Green tea does not penetrate below the first layer of the skin, but even here it can have dramatic results. As skin cells reach the epidermis they prepare to die, and over the next week or so, they become dull as they're dying off.


  • Is Green Tea Effective Regardless of How It's Administered?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] In recent years, green tea has gained a lot of attention for its ability to prevent disease and protect health. The potent anti-oxidant ability of green tea has been shown to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer. It has also been shown to regulate blood sugar, which may help control diabetes and aid in weight loss. In addition, green tea has been shown to reduce the signs of aging and help protect the brain from Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.


  • More Evidence That Green Tea Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
    [Cancer:Prostate-Cancer] Recently there has been more and more information to suggest that drinking green tea may reduce a man’s risk of getting prostate cancer. Studies both in laboratory animals and humans have shown that green tea is a powerful cancer preventer, of both prostate and other forms of cancer.


  • Manganese Content in Tea
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Manganese is an essential mineral for health. We should be able to get an adequate supply of manganese from our natural diet, yet many people are deficient in this critical mineral.


  • Reducing Your Breast Cancer Risk With Green Tea
    [Cancer:Breast-Cancer] We know that a healthy diet and exercise are important to preventing breast and other cancers. In particular, a diet rich in anti-oxidants can help the body age gracefully and avoid diseases like cancer and heart disease.


  • Can Drinking Green Tea Prevent the Flu?
    [Health-and-Fitness] One little known secret about preventing the flu is adding green tea to your diet. Research has shown that green tea is extremely effective at preventing the flu, when consumed regularly. One study, reported by the UK Tea Council showed that green tea can protect in two ways. First, green tea suppresses the growth of influenza cells. Secondly, green tea actually kills off the influenza cells.


  • Prostate Cancer Preventers
    [Cancer:Prostate-Cancer] Research has shown that there are several natural ways to prevent prostate cancer. One particular study reported by the UK Tea Council outlined several ways that men can protect their prostate health by making changes to their diets.


  • Why We Need More Research on Flavonoids
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Green tea has been widely shown in research to be very effective in preventing disease. A wide body of research exists that links green tea to the prevention of cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and many forms of cancer. Green tea has even been shown in some studies to be an effective treatment for cancer, when combined with traditional therapies.


  • Protect Your Teeth - Drink Green Tea
    [Health-and-Fitness:Dental-Care] Dental health is important to all of us. We buy special toothpaste, mouthwash, dental floss and rinsing agents to help ensure that our smile is white, our teeth are cavity free and our breath is fresh. But, did you know that drinking tea may be one of the best (and simplest) things you can do to protect your teeth?


  • Green Tea's Role in Cancer Prevention
    [Cancer] Green tea has recently caught the attention of scientists working to discover ways to prevent and treat cancer. Researchers began looking at green tea because of the significantly lower rates of certain diseases in Asian culture, where green tea is widely consumed. Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world, after water; so if we can harness health properties in this beverage, it could have huge impact on our health.


  • Can Green Tea Help With Gastrointestinal Illnesses?
    [Health-and-Fitness] For the last several years, there has been an abundance of research on the effects of green tea and the many health benefits that it can offer. For centuries, Asians have used green tea for health, both to prevent disease and treat illnesses.


  • Green Tea and Ovarian Cancer
    [Cancer:Ovarian-Cervical-Uterine-Cancer] In recent years, scientists have given much attention to natural and alternative therapies for preventing and treating cancer. One of the most promising natural remedies is green tea. In study after study, green tea has been shown to prevent heart disease and several forms of cancer.


  • Losing Weight the Natural Way
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Research has shown that green tea can be extremely effective in helping to control weight and weight related health concerns. A study reported by the UK Tea Council showed that tea has been shown to help regulate insulin, lower cholesterol and triglycerides, burn fat and help turn off the receptors that make us want to eat.


  • Drug Interactions with Alternative Therapies
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Herbs and other alternative therapies were the original medicine. Ancient cultures used herbs and plants to stay healthy and cure illness. But, for years after the pharmaceutical world took over treatment, the Western world lost interest in alternative therapies.


  • Are Our Drinks Making Us Fat?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Recently obesity has become American’s number one health concern. The level of obesity in this country has risen to shocking proportions


  • Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
    [Cancer:Lung-Mesothelioma-Asbestos] Lung cancer is the most fatal form of cancer in the US, and other developed countries, today. And the fact is, that most of the cancer treatments that work well on other forms of cancer often don’t work well on lung cancer. Add to that the fact that lung cancer is often not diagnosed until it is far advanced, and it’s easy to understand why this disease is so often fatal.


  • Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Diet and exercise are critical to keeping your heart healthy but there may be another simple thing that you can add to your life to help reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease. Try drinking some green tea!


  • Preventing Prostate Cancer With Green Tea
    [Cancer:Prostate-Cancer] The mysteries of cancer have eluded us for years. However, we are beginning to learn many pieces of valuable information about how to prevent many different kinds of cancer. And, of course, once we learn more about how to prevent the disease, we can better understand how to treat it, as well. Research is ongoing, and scientists are learning much about this disease, though there still is much to learn.


  • Can Tea Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] One of the most frightening health concerns facing the aging is Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities.


  • Green Tea for Healing the Body
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Tea has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. But, as much as it’s been relied on for healing, we are really just beginning to understand all the ways that green tea can protect health and prevent disease. Research has been performed on green tea’s effects on many different diseases, and the results have been astounding


  • Green Tea's Effect on Cholesterol During Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] By now most of us have heard that green tea may be able to help us lose weight. And, we may have also heard that green tea may be able to lower cholesterol, helping to improve our cardiovascular health.


  • Herbal Teas for Preventing Breast Cancer
    [Cancer:Breast-Cancer] In recent years, much research has been done on ways to prevent breast cancer and other disease. Much of the research has focused on green tea, which has been shown in many studies to have cancer preventing qualities. So much research has been done, in fact, that Japan’s medical community now calls green tea a known cancer preventative, and other medical communities are expected to follow suit.


  • Can Tea Help Prevent Food Poison?
    [Health-and-Fitness] Bacillus cereus is usually caused by improper cooking. The problem can be exacerbated by improper refrigeration, which just allows the spores to further grow. Cooked rice that is improperly refrigerated is one of the most common carriers of bacillus cereus. However, researchers are learning that there may be ways to protect our bodies from the ravages of such bacteria. It appears that tea's catechins may protect our bodies from bacteria like bacillus cereus. Tea has far more anti-microbial properties than previously realized.


  • Reversing Endothelial Dysfunction
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] One of the precursors to atherosclerosis and heart disease is endothelial dysfunction. Because endothelial dysfunction can appear years before more serious heart disease symptoms, it is wise to try and repair this problem before it turns into something more serious. It is estimated that endothelial dysfunction affects approximately 50% of those over the age of 40.


  • Using Green Tea to Increase Weight Loss and Control Diabetes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] To help control diabetes or a pre-diabetic condition naturally, it’s important to help keep blood glucose levels stable. Losing weight can help regulate blood glucose levels, but, losing weight the right way may help us lower our glucose levels even before we’ve lost a lot of weight.


  • Beating the Gain
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all know about those pounds that tend to creep on as we age. Even if it seems that nothing else changes, our weight tends to creep up a pound or two each year, particularly once we hit 40. But, there are ways to beat this gain that seems to associate itself with aging. Here are some tips to help keep you from getting middle age spread.


  • Can the Beverages You Drink Interact With Your Blood Thinner?
    [Health-and-Fitness] Warfarin and its counterparts are commonly prescribed prescription medications today. Warfarin is a blood thinner, and is used primarily to prevent blood clots in patients with cardiovascular disease, or who are otherwise at a higher than average risk of stroke or heart attack.


  • Protection Against Digestive Cancer
    [Cancer] There are numerous types of cancer that affect different areas of our digestive systems. Two of the most life threatening are cancers of the biliary tract and gall bladder tumors. Tumors and cancers in this part of the digestive system are rare, with only about 7500 diagnosed each year, but are more often fatal than many other forms of digestive system cancer.


  • Green Tea's Protection Against Diabetes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] In recent years, we've seen lots of attention focused on the health benefits of drinking green tea. Much of the research has centered on green tea's ability to prevent, and possibly even treat, cancer. But, there are other serious health concerns that may be positively affected by adding green tea to your diet. One of the most important is Type II diabetes.


  • Weapons in the Battle Against Heart Disease
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Heart disease and stroke are our nation's number one killers. As we become more sedentary and more obese, heart disease is occurring in more severe forms and at younger ages. But, there are ways to avoid heart disease, if you understand the associated health issues and how to control them. Here's an overview of the contributors to heart disease and how to minimize your risk by managing your life.


  • Can Tea Help With Diabetes?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Exercising and maintaining a healthy weight are the two most important ways to prevent diabetes, and to help control your insulin even if you’ve already been diagnosed. But, scientists are also discovering that there might be a secret weapon in the fight against diabetes, and it’s safe and simple. Drink tea. Both green and black teas have been shown to help control blood sugar levels.


  • Cancer and Green Tea - Sorting Through The Evidence
    [Cancer] By now most of us have heard that green tea may have tremendous potential in terms of helping us win the war against cancer. There have been many studies that have shown that green tea has been shown to prevent the development of cancer when it is a significant part of your diet. In addition, there have even been studies that have shown that green tea may even have potential for treating cancer.


  • Reduce Your Cancer Risk - Drink Green Tea
    [Cancer] Today, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States and its incidence has risen dramatically over the last 50 years. This leads scientists to the conclusion that our lifestyle and environment must play an important role in whether or not we develop cancer.


  • Are Herbs Effective for Preventing Illness?
    [Health-and-Fitness] As we become more concerned about the side effects of drug therapies, many people are re-examining the benefits of herbal remedies as preventative measures or adjunct treatments to go along with traditional medicine.


  • Can Green Tea Help You Lose Weight?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Green tea also seems to be helpful for weight loss because of its potent anti-oxidants. Tea's polyphenols have been shown to have many health benefits because they combat free radicals in the body that can cause cell damage.


  • What is a Tea of the Month Club?
    [Food-and-Drink:Tea] A Tea of the Month Club is the perfect way to sample a variety of teas for yourself or for a gift. A tea selection will be made each month for the consumer and will be sent to your door. The selections are often made from high quality white, black, oolong, green and flavored teas.


  • Green Tea’s Effectiveness in Fighting Pancreatic Cancer
    [Cancer] In recent years, there have been quite a few studies on green tea and its cancer preventing characteristics. These studies are fueled by examination of Asian cultures, where green tea is part of everyday life, and where the incidences of heart disease, stroke and cancer are far lower than here in the US. Asian cultures have understood for many years that green tea is effective in slowing down the aging process and preventing and treating disease.


  • Can Green Tea Treat Skin Cancer?
    [Cancer:Skin-Cancer] Some of the most promising cancer research going on today involves the use of green tea and its ability to prevent cancer and even treat cancer in patients who have already been diagnosed with the disease. Researchers are examining many possibilities for how green tea might be used, and working to determine the cancer types for which it holds the most promise.


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