How Does Tea Affect Your Health?

Tea has long been renowned for its benefits on your health. The fact that it’s almost next to no calories (and some variants being zero calories) is a huge boon right from the start. Not having to worry about weight gain in the slightest when drinking such a healing and delicious drink is amazing.

But the true benefits of tea are the antioxidants. Having such things in a drink and consuming it on a daily basis helps to ward off cancerous cells down the road, something that coffee drinkers can’t claim as boldly. Both drinks contain caffeine, yet the overpowering effects of antioxidants in your body from day to day simply makes tea a clear winner of health, in my book.

Just as well, green tea goes another step further by being even lower in caloric value and sometimes having zero caffeine at all. While some people see this as a bad thing, I welcome no caffeine. Caffeine, just like nicotine, is an addictive chemical that will make you want to drink more. In my opinion, I don’t want to be addicted to anything but rather have control over my intake of that thing.

But how does tea affect your teeth?

Much in the same way that coffee and red wine have tannins that can stain your teeth if you’re someone who drinks multiple cups a day, black tea can do the same. Luckily, green tea doesn’t stain your teeth whatsoever, so again 1 point to green tea.

Tea is one of those things that far more consumed around the world than it is in the States, and I think we could learn something from other cultures that make tea a core part of their diet. The more you drink, the better off you are. This will also mean you’re consuming less coffee, no alcohol, and less soda simply because you’re busy drinking tea instead.

When you drink your tea, I’d suggest going easy on the sugar, honey, or milk simply because that’s where you’ll see calories start to build up and sugar levels start to take over. And we all know sugar’s effect on our teeth if we don’t brush our teeth or at least rinse with water after consuming something laden with sugar.

As always, be mindful of what you’re consuming. There’s no point in having something healthy if you have too much of it. Get into tea as something you’re really quite interested in and you’ll end up making a great life choice for yourself.