Tea, Coffee and Cocoa
Follow the links below to find information about the health effects of drinking tea, coffee or cocoa (chocolate).
For information specifically on caffeine, follow the link to the separate topic page below.
Reviewed October 2011
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| Title: | Tea leaves and health |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Tea may slow down some cancers and reduce the risk of heart disease, but the research is not conclusive. The protective agents in tea seem to be a group of polyphenols, known as catechins. White and green tea, black tea and oolong tea all contain catechins. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Tinnitus - insomnia and sleep problems |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Tinnitus can be associated with sleep problems. However, researchers have found problems like insomnia are not caused by tinnitus, but by other factors such as associated stress. You can make changes to improve your sleep if you have tinnitus. |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Chocolate |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Chocolate is made from cocoa beans. Components in cocoa beans such as antioxidants may help protect against degenerative illnesses like heart disease and cancer. Chocolate also contains protein, fat, iron, caffeine and other substances. There is no evidence that chocolate causes acne. |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Green tea (Camellia sinensis) for the prevention of cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Fifty-one studies with more than 1.6 million participants, mainly of observational nature were included in this systematic review. Studies looked for an association between green tea consumption and cancer of the digestive tract, gynecological cancer in... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
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