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Three minutes to a perfect cup of tea

We drink 165 million cups every day. That’s 15 billion litres of tea every year. And according to a recent BBC programme, our favourite cuppa is also the number one drink for health! Getting the benefit from black tea may depend on the brewing time.

Manage blood pressure, improve heart health

Black tea 'helps reduce blood pressure'

Are you enjoying your morning cuppa? Switching to black tea could not only cut calories, it could also help you lower your blood pressure and prevent risk of heart disease. That’s according to results published in The Archives of Internal Medicine.

Tea found to have cancer-fighting properties

Black and green tea found to fight cancer

Black and green tea has been found to have anti-cancer nutrients by two new studies. Researchers from New Jersey found a tea compound, TF-2, killed off cancer cells and also caused certain cancer cells to shrink within three hours of treatment.

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Broccoli helps kill cancer cells

We have long been told about the health benefits of superfoods but now Sulforaphane, one of the primary phytochemicals in broccoli has been proved to selectively target and kill prostate cancer cells, leaving normal prostate cells healthy and unaffected.

Over half of Brits want to shed 'at least a stone'

The study commissioned by diet aid manufacturer Slimsticks, also discovered that a worrying one in five people have followed an ‘eating is cheating’ starvation diet and one in ten have tried a liquid diet.