Staying Healthy
Tea: Drink to Your Health?
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Is tea uniquely healthy?
No other food seems to have the exact same nutritional benefits. "Tea is uniquely plentiful in catechins, and especially epicatechins, which are believed to be the component responsible for many of its purported health effects," says Dr. Howard Sesso, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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