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Drink this every day to lower your risk of heart disease and stroke
We all want to live longer, healthier lives, in which we are active and capable of caring for ourselves until the very last moment.
Yet, all too many of us end up very differently from that scenario, in large part due to the heart and blood vessel diseases that run rampant in our country.
Luckily, there is good news…
According to research from the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, there’s a simple way to lower your risk of heart disease and stroke and increase not only your life expectancy but the quality of your health in those years — all with one drink.
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The magic of tea
The researchers studied a considerable population of almost 101,000 people out of China and followed them for over seven years.
And here’s what it came down to: Tea drinkers live longer, and they’re healthier doing it.
Yup, good old tea is the answer if you want to live longer and better.
In fact, after classifying participants into two groups — habitual tea drinkers (three or more times a week) and never or non-habitual tea drinkers (less than three times a week). Those who enjoyed tea more often won hands-down.
Habitual tea consumption was not only associated with healthier years and longer life expectancy, but it also lowered:
- Risk of non-fatal heart disease and stroke by 20 percent
- Risk of fatal heart disease and stroke by 22 percent
- Risk of all-cause death by 15 percent
And it gets even better!
The team followed a subset of participants (14,010 total) who kept up their tea-drinking habits for over 13 years and saw that their benefits were amplified…
Those who continued to drink tea three or more times a week over the years benefited from a:
- 39 percent lower risk of non-fatal heart disease and stroke
- 56 percent lower risk of fatal heart disease and stroke
- 29 percent decreased risk of all-cause death
That’s right, simply drinking tea could cut your risk of dying from heart disease or stroke by almost 60 percent and your risk of dying from anything at all by close to 30 percent!
But if you want those benefits, drinking tea must not be a habit you start and stop but one that lasts a lifetime.
When asked why this is true, senior author Dr. Dongfeng Gu of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences gave this answer:
“Mechanism studies have suggested that the main bioactive compounds in tea, namely polyphenols, are not stored in the body long-term. Thus, frequent tea intake over an extended period may be necessary for the cardioprotective effect.”
In other words, you’ve got to drink those polyphenols regularly to keep that ticker ticking away.
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Green tea for the win
But, there’s one more thing you should know…
The study also showed that one type of tea was better at delivering a longer, healthier life — green tea.
They conducted a head-to-head analysis pitting green tea against black and found that while the green conferred all of that protection against heart disease, stroke, and all-cause death, black simply did not.
As someone with a family history of heart disease, this doesn’t surprise me. I’ve come across multiple studies indicating that green tea contains many compounds with protective benefits for the heart and blood pressure.
The funny thing about green and black tea is that they all come from the same plant — Camellia sinensis. But they’re prepared using different methods.
So, let’s all raise a teacup to better heart health and longer life!
Editor’s note: There are perfectly safe and natural ways to decrease your risk of blood clots including the 25-cent vitamin, the nutrient that acts as a natural blood thinner and the powerful herb that helps clear plaque. To discover these and other secrets of long-lived hearts, click here for Hushed Up Natural Heart Cures and Common Misconceptions of Popular Heart Treatments!
Source:
- Tea drinkers live longer — EurekAlert
By Virginia Tims-Lawson
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