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Tea, the great comforter

17/4/2016

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It’s so hard to imagine a life without tea. Despite the rise in coffee consumption it is still by far the most popular drink in UK and we remain one of the largest consumers of tea in the world. It's part of our national DNA and embedded as a part of our work and family life. 

We ‘take’ tea and savour it. I can never imagine anyone downing a concentrated shot of tea!

It is our great comforter, to whom we turn as soon as we get up, if there is a crisis or when we need a restorative ‘breather’. “Fancy a brew?” it’s our ‘gift’ when we welcome a friend, a guest or colleague.
 
Tea bonds generations, nations and transcends social class. The Queen drinks tea (Earl Grey, apparently). And, though it's known by many other names across the world and served in many different ceremonies, it is the same plant Camellia Sinensis that is responsible for our collective pleasure, whether it's green tea, OOlong or Black tea; Chai anyone?
 
More and more evidence shows that tea doesn't just make us feel better psychologically. Studies by UCL suggest that tea can affect and control  levels of the 'stress hormone' cortisol.
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The study, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, found that people who drank tea were able to de-stress more quickly than those who drank a fake tea substitute. In fact, the study participants, who drank a black tea brew four times a day for six weeks, were found to have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood after a stressful event, compared with a control group who drank the fake or placebo tea for the same period of time.

What's your favourite brew?
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16/4/2017 10:11:41

In this world where there are problems that might shake us, but there is a cup of tea that will comfort us and will give us that time that we need. It will give us the moment that will make us all happy and will help us to think clearly about the things that really matters to us. There may be heartaches that may break us inside, but it will all just pass away and the lesson that will leave will be worth it.

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