Posted on 11/23/2022 8:49:07 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A daily cup of tea could help you to enjoy better health late in life. However, if you're not a tea drinker, there are other things you can add to your diet.
The key is flavonoids, which are naturally occurring substances found in many common foods and beverages such as black and green tea, apples, nuts, citrus fruit, berries and more.
A study of 881 elderly women (median age of 80) has found that the participants were far less likely to have extensive buildup of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) if they consumed a high level of flavonoids in their diet.
"The main contributors are usually black or green tea, blueberries, strawberries, oranges, red wine, apples, raisins/grapes and dark chocolate."
There are many different types of flavonoids, such as flavan-3-ols and flavonols, which the study indicated appear to also have a relationship with AAC.
Study participants who had a higher intake of total flavonoids, flavan-3-ols and flavonols were 36-39 percent less likely to have extensive AAC. Black tea was the study cohort's main source of total flavonoids and was also associated with significantly lower odds of extensive AAC.
Compared with respondents who didn't drink tea, participants who had two to six cups per day had 16-42 percent less chance of having extensive AAC. However, some other dietary sources of flavonoids, such as fruit juice, red wine and chocolate, did not show a significant beneficial association with AAC.
Parmenter said people could still benefit from flavonoids without putting the kettle on.
"Out of the women who don't drink black tea, higher total non-tea flavonoid intake also appears to protect against extensive calcification of the arteries," he said. "This implies flavonoids from sources other than black tea may be protective against AAC when tea is not consumed."
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There are ways to reverse this build up.
Black and green tea, and water. Pretty much what I have been on for years. Oh and one mug of coffee a day.
If I recall correctly, quercetin is also a flavonoid. I’ve been taking daily over the last 2 years in conjunction with D3/K2 and zinc to keep my immune system boosted. Would it function in the same manner as the flavonoids you get from tea?
Black tea is OK, for the most part, but GREEN tea has near hallucinogenic effects on me.
Don’t like it AT ALL
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Just partially.
Tea is great.
God made fire for a reason.
Being born and raised British I began drinking black tea at 10 yo
Now at 74 I enjoy fairly good health and I’m still able to travel etc
*Black tea is OK, for the most part, but GREEN tea has near hallucinogenic effects on me.*
Yeah, well, you may not be in the target group?
Every day there is a half-gallon pot of tea on the stove or thermos, with just one tea bag of Tetley Classic Blend Rich Black Tea (100 Count Tea Bags was $3.00 at Walmart, now OOS) and one Uncle Lee’s Tea Organic Green Tea (100 Bags was 4.99, not $9). Simmer for a while and that is all you need. However, I do put some dutched chocolate powder and sugar in mine.
You may be right
I drink A LOT of tea daily. Have for my entire adult life.
So I guess things are looking up.
I consume mass quantities of green tea (with ginseng) and dark chocolate so I’m good.
Green tea is hard on the liver. Black tea is much better.
Of all black tea is equal. There is “Darjeeling” tea , the most exquisite of all teas - also known as the Champaign of teas, and there is the rest. But has to be brewed right.
Of all = not all.
I could drink black tea (iced) by the gallon. My ENT told me to cut way back because I’m dehydrating myself. Apparently, tea is a fairly powerful diuretic.
“...common foods and beverages such as black and green tea, apples, nuts, citrus fruit, berries and more.”
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My vascular system is probably going to be my undoing. I drink coffee mostly (2 cups per day) or H²O. But... I also eat those foods recommended for venal health. It is important to note that peanuts are legumes, with a different nutritional profile than actual nuts.
Daddy was right. He told told me long ago that “no one gets out of here alive” and he had lived a life endangered by the depression and 3 wars. Pops told me that they didn’t think too much about nutritional eating, they were just plain ol’ hungry through their twenties.
Put Tea and a steak over a fire, now you’re talking. 🙂
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