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Drinking Tea
May Lower Bad Cholesterol
(Washington, Reuters Health, 9/30/03)
Joseph Judd, a chemist for the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA), and team, studied 15 subjects for 6 weeks. They gave
one group 5 cups of black tea daily for 3 weeks, while the
rest drank a placebo. Then, the 2 groups switched. The
researchers found that low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the "bad
cholesterol," fell an average of 7.5% during the 3 weeks that
the subjects drank the tea. A separate study ruled out
caffeine as the agent creating the LDL drop. When participants
drank actual tea, their LDL levels dropped an average of 11%;
whereas, subjects who consumed a tea-like beverage spiked with
caffeine, did not experience a similar LDL decrease.
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