Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Got a newsletter from my doctor’s office yesterday, and the word is–tada!–tea drinkers are in luck! Here’s why:

1. Drinking tea regularly can lower your blood pressure by 2 points, reducing your risk of stroke by 8%.
2. Drinking just 3 cups of tea a day (easily done by me each morning) can slash the risk of hip fracture by THIRTY percent, and it gets even better!
3. Black tea contains chemicals called flavonoids which help prevent brittle bones.
4. Flavonoids are linked with lower cancer and heart disease risks.
5. Every cup of black tea lowers the risk of hip fracture by 9%, thus three cups a day can cut that risk by a third!

Now if that doesn’t send you running for the Earl Grey (or Ceylon, or Assam, or any other of many, many perfectly delicious black teas), I don’t know why not. Frankly, since both my mother and my grandmother fell…