The health benefits of drinking tea made Discover magazine's
list of the top 100 science stories of 2003. This article was
not about the well-known antioxidant benefits of tea, but
rather the fact that tea bolsters the immune system with a
substance called L-theanine. This helps the body to produce
ethylamine, which in turn makes T cells produce far more
infection-killing chemicals, including interferon.

Another poster posted the complete AP story on this
forum in April - you can go back and read it on Google
if you are interested. A search on "interferon" works.


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"RJP" wrote in
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The health benefits of drinking tea made Discover magazine's
list of the top 100 science stories of 2003. This article was
not about the well-known antioxidant benefits of tea, but
rather the fact that tea bolsters the immune system with a
substance called L-theanine. This helps the body to produce
ethylamine, which in turn makes T cells produce far more
infection-killing chemicals, including interferon.

Another poster posted the complete AP story on this
forum in April - you can go back and read it on Google
if you are interested. A search on "interferon" works.

"A second experiment, using human volunteers, showed that immune system
blood cells from tea drinkers responded five times faster to germs
than did the blood cells of coffee drinkers."

Wow. Thanks for the post. Go tea!

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fLameDogg wrote in message ...
"RJP" wrote in
news:gJLCb.382871$275.1236693@attbi_s53:

The health benefits of drinking tea made Discover magazine's
list of the top 100 science stories of 2003. This article was
not about the well-known antioxidant benefits of tea, but
rather the fact that tea bolsters the immune system with a
substance called L-theanine. This helps the body to produce
ethylamine, which in turn makes T cells produce far more
infection-killing chemicals, including interferon.

Another poster posted the complete AP story on this
forum in April - you can go back and read it on Google
if you are interested. A search on "interferon" works.

"A second experiment, using human volunteers, showed that immune system
blood cells from tea drinkers responded five times faster to germs
than did the blood cells of coffee drinkers."

Wow. Thanks for the post. Go tea!

I think coffee has a tendency to lower your immune system. It also
discolors your teeth.

http://teameister.com/

(Dave) wrote in
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I think coffee has a tendency to lower your immune system.

Do you have any links to studies to that effect? Then again, who wants to
talk about coffee?

It also discolors your teeth.

Tea also does so, unfortunately.

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fD

fLameDogg wrote in message ...
(Dave) wrote in
om:

I think coffee has a tendency to lower your immune system.

Do you have any links to studies to that effect? Then again, who wants to
talk about coffee?

It also discolors your teeth.

Tea also does so, unfortunately.

I do have studies.

I drink tea and my teeth are not discolored.

(Dave) wrote in
m:

fLameDogg wrote in message
...
(Dave) wrote in
om:

I think coffee has a tendency to lower your immune system.

Do you have any links to studies to that effect? Then again, who
wants to talk about coffee?

It also discolors your teeth.

Tea also does so, unfortunately.

I do have studies.

K. Any links?

I drink tea and my teeth are not discolored.

I'm happy to hear it. I'm sure you take good care of your teeth. But I
think you will find that most people agree that tea *can* stain the teeth.
In fact, there was a thread on the subject very recently.

Here are a few links which seem to support my position:

http://www.messygourmet.com/stains/issue4.html

http://www.free-beauty-tips.com/teeth.html

http://www.adha.org/oralhealth/whitening.htm

http://www.dentalgentlecare.com/what_ages_teeth.htm

There's lots more, but this is interfering with my tea drinking ;O)

I would think, if I had to guess, that coffee stains more than tea. I
wonder if anyone has done any studies to that effect? :O)

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fD