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# What can tea do to your health?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/tea_dn_health_0411150937/
- Published: 2015-04-11T10:33:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:53:43.000Z
- Description: The piece credits drinking tea with lower risk of metabolic disorders, cancer, Parkinson's disease and infection, and says tea polyphenols delay aging 18 times more effectively than vitamin E and that green tea's EGCG acts against nearly all types of cancer.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Herbs, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Drinking tea is good for your health. Drinking tea, you are at low risk of metabolic disorders, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and infections among others. In a word, you can be healthier and live longer. About 80% of centenarians drink tea and 40% of them are crazy about tea. 

Tea polyphenols are 18 times more effective at delaying the aging process, compared to vitamin E. EGCG is the main component in tea that kills all sorts of cancer cells. Drinking tea makes you happy and lowers your risk for Parkinson's disease by up to 71%.

The antioxidants in tea can also reduce radiation-induced cancers. The effect is similar to that of vitamin C. Decades after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in August, 1945, tea farmers and tea drinkers were found less likely to develop cancers, compared to those who did not drink any tea.

Tea is one important factor for longevity. Among centenarians, 40% love drinking tea while 80% have a habit of drinking tea.

Tea provides strong antioxidants. A cup of tea (300 ml) provides antioxidants that are equivalent to antioxidants found in 12 bottles of white wine or one and half bottle of red wine or 12 glasses of beer or four apples or five onions or seven cups of fresh orange juice.

Japanese scientists have found the antioxidative effect of polyphenols in tea is 18 times stronger than that of vitamin E.

In the journal Allergy and Clinical Immunology, British and American scientists reported that EGCG found in green tea can effectively prevent the spread of HIV in the body. 

Over four thousand studies have proved EGCG in green tea is the main component against almost all types of cancer, particularly uterine cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer and breast cancer. Drinking tea may also help boost the anticancer effect of chemotherapy.

A Japanese survey initiated in 1999 followed 8,522 men and women among whom 419 were diagnosed with cancer. Among female cancer patients, those drinking tea developed cancer 7 years later than those who did not drink any tea. For men, the delay was 3.2 years.

Scientists from Japan's National Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University in the U.S., Curtin University of Technology in Australia and other organizations conducted studies and found men who drank green tea often were 60% less likely to develop prostate cancer, compared to those who did not drink.

Researchers from National University of Singapore followed 63,257 men and women aged 45 to 75 years for 12 years and found those who drank black tea were 71% less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, compared to those who did not drink.

Researchers from Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University found patients with diabetes improved their conditions after drinking tea for six months. Among 1,300 patients with diabetes, drinking tea helped 82% patients and completely normalized blood sugar levels in about 9%.

Without resorting to dietary restriction or physical exercise, individuals lost 3 pounds of fat after drinking 8 to 10 grams of tea leaves per day for 12 weeks. In Europe and Japan, tea derived products are the number one weight loss product.

Japanese scientists found tea can kill the poisonous E. coli.

Tea is highly alkaline and can raise the body pH to slightly alkaline and prevent viral infections. Almost all sorts of viruses cannot survive in an alkaline environment.

Drinking tea makes you inexplicably happy. Amino acids in tea can promote secretion of dopamine, and dopamine affects human emotion, pleasure, desire, addiction. A sense of pleasure from drinking tea is involuntary. (David Liu, PHD)