Dear Healthy Friend,

You probably already know how good green tea is for you. So the fact that it's good for your heart too isn't a surprise. Christine O'Brein shares the countless benefits of this steaming little cup of goodness from a recent study...

In the name of good health,

Taryn Strugnell
Managing Editor of Nutrition & Healing

P.S. Milk is great for building stronger bones, isn't it? Actually, it’s not! Dr Wright explains....

New research reveals the real fountain of youth
Christine O’Brien
Contributor to Nutrition & Healing

A new study in Japan, appearing in the Annals of Epidemiology, shows that drinking seven cups of green tea a day could cut heart disease risk death by a massive 75%.

The study followed over 12,000 people between the ages of 65 and 84 over five years. In comparison to people who drink less than one cup of green tea per day, those who drink seven show, in addition to the impressive heart benefits, a 55% lower risk of death from other diseases.

For example: Their risk of death from colorecta cancer shows a massive 31% drop.

Now, the researchers say these strong effects may be due to a lifetime of heavy green tea drinking.

But, given all of the other benefits of green tea - protection against Alzheimer's, lower risk of prostate cancer, and help with weight loss - I say there's no such thing as "too late" for green tea.

Especially when you look at some recent work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. There, scientists have reported the cells of regular tea drinkers (an average of 3 cups per day) may actually have a younger biological age than the cells of people who don't drink tea.

They found the DNA sequences at the end of chromosomes that shorten as cells age were a good bit longer in the tea drinkers. This means that it could add about five years onto your life....

So, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to brew myself a big pot of green tea! I suggest you do the same.

Drink less milk, to get stronger bones

Q: I've been drinking milk for years without problems - and my bones seem to be all the stronger for it. Why are you so against milk?

Dr. Wright: I'm glad to hear that your bones are strong, but I'd be willing to bet the milk isn't what's doing the job. I know it sounds unbelievable, but the proof is there. In fact, in one 12-year prospective study published in 1997 in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers studied 77,761 women ages 34 to 59 and found no evidence that higher intakes of cow's milk reduced fracture incidence. They actually found the opposite: Women who drank two or more glasses of milk daily actually had a significantly higher risk of bone fracture when compared with women who drank less than one glass of milk per week.