Day 4 cups Black Tea Reduces Risk of Stroke

Scientists say that free is no benefit from green tea and black tea also has many useful properties: daily intake of four cups of this beverage may reduce the risk of stroke by more than a fifth. Reported by the Daily Mail.



The experts focused on the composition of black tea (considered to be the most popular in the UK) and to study its effect on the formation of blood clots. It was found that 4 cups of drinks a day reduce their likelihood of 21%, while the use of scarce does not have a beneficial effect.

Scientists have involved 74 thousand 961 volunteers (men and women), who are in good health at the start of the study, which began in 1997. Over the next 10 years, four thousand of them victims of stroke (in many cases they have suffered an ischemic stroke).

The specialists were asked about their habits of consumption of tea. Eliminate the risk factors for stroke, such as high blood pressure and smoking, the researchers concluded: black tea significantly improved the condition of the people. They describe the effect of these flavonoids contained in black tea, beneficial for the heart and brain.

"Black tea has beneficial effects and reduce cardiovascular risk by flavonoids, a daily intake of 1.3 cups of tea did not affect the risk of stroke. During the study, researchers found that volunteers who use 4 cups of drinks per day had a 21% lower risk for stroke compared with those who object to tea "research scientist claims Karolinska Institute in Sweden.