Dutch researchers have found that drinking several cups of tea a day, can cut the risk of death from coronary heart disease by more than a third. They followed 37 500 healthy people for 13 years, and noticed that those who drank between three and six cups of tea a day, were 45% less likely to die from heart disease, than those who drank less than one cup per day. Moderate coffee consumption was also associated with a slightly reduced rate of coronary heart disease mortality.
(Tea and Coffee Consumption and Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology, 14 July 2010.)
Author: Robin Costello
I offer traditional Chinese acupuncture in Exeter, from a tranquil clinic a mile from the city centre, and next to the University of Exeter. I graduated originally from the London School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine’s 3 year full time Acupuncture Diploma (DipAc) course. I am on the practitioners register of the British Acupuncture Council (MBAcC), a regulatory and professional body with an entry standard of a full three year undergraduate degree level training.
I have worked in a hospital in south west China, deepening my knowledge and using acupuncture and Chinese massage (tuina) as the treatment of choice in its country of origin. I have taught Chinese medicine in colleges, the NHS and at university level. I also practise Qi Gong, and Chinese dietary therapy, that is the medicinal use of ordinary foods, chosen to help achieve particular therapeutic effects in different individuals.
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