Wellness Corner

There are certain things about drinking that most women start to learn as they age. One of the less pleasant ones is that you should stop drinking caffeine. One that some women find to be nice is that it's healthy for you to drink red wine. And one that is just being discovered is that you might be able to protect your heart from the diseases of aging by regularly drinking more tea.

A study completed in France has recently found that tea-drinking women reduce the plaque in their arteries and therefore protect themselves from heart disease. The study found specifically that older women who were drinking a minimum of three cups of tea per day had less plaque build-up in their neck arteries than their female counterparts who weren't tea drinkers.

There are still some questions to be answered as a result of this study. For one thing, the researchers don't know why the same thing wasn't true for male tea-drinkers. They also don't know why the tea-drinking seemed to be independent of all other variables. But knowing that you might protect your heart by drinking more tea as you age is good information to have.

Question of the Day: What type of tea do you drink?

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