Posted on 01/09/2007 2:59:29 PM PST by blam
Milk in tea may affect heart
BERLIN, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Tea drinkers should hold the milk if they want to protect themselves against heart disease, German researchers said.
When drunk without milk, black tea seemed to improve cardiovascular function, researchers from Charite Hospital Universitatsmedizin Berlin said. However, they said adding milk counteracts beneficial effects tea may have in protecting against cardiovascular disease, the Independent reported Tuesday.
Proteins called caseins could be the culprits, researchers said.
The research, published in the European Heart Journal, studied 16 healthy post-menopausal women given just black tea, black tea with 10 percent skimmed milk or boiled water as a control.
They drank it on three separate occasions but refrained from drinking tea for four weeks both before and after the study. All women were given a croissant as a standardized breakfast while they drank the tea.
The researchers measured whether blood vessels in the artery could relax if the blood flow increases, a condition called flow-mediated dilation. They did this before tea was drunk and afterward at intervals.
"Black tea significantly improved FMD in humans compared with water, whereas addition of milk completely blunted the effects of tea," researchers said.
OH Blam are they talking Black tea or Green tea I drink both occassionlly
Bloomberg to ban cream in New York Teahouses....
Damned if you do or damned if you don't, huh?
Use "White-Out" as a dairy substitute.
Whew...My wife be relieved. She doesn't use milk in her tea...she uses Half-and-Half.
I'm going to file this under "we are all going to die of something some day"...might as well enjoy life while you are here.
Mt research shows that German researchers have way to much time on their hands
"Evidence from around the world shows a correlation between tannin, an ingredient found in tea, and cancer of the esophagus... The Chinese, although they are heavy tea drinkers, drink tea that is low in tannin and have little throat cancer. The British, also profuse drinkers of tea that contains tannin, add milk to their drink which binds tannin, rendering it harmless."
Whoa. Scary stuff. Makes me want to go smoke a cigar to relax.
And then again, maybe not. I suspect that it is far more likely that the calcium in the milk is complexing with the polyphenols in the tea, and rendering them inactive.
Calcium chelates with a LOT of antibiotics and other biologically active compounds---why not the polyphenols in tea??
Is there anything out there about drinking iced tea and eating salsa? Because I am NOT giving up that combination no way no how.
Wonder if that powdered white stuff counts. Not even certain if it is dairy.
Yep--we're all going to die. May as well do what we want.
I typically drink 8-10 large cups of tea with milk during the work day, and have for many years. Will have to switch to beer.
It's not dairy, it's made out of corn.
I thought it was recycled drywall.
Who on earth mixes milk with tea? Yuck.
Great. Then it counts towards your daily veggie requirement.
That stuff is good for you. :)
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