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Health benefits of Coffee and Tea compared – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake OAM -Health writer Drinking Tea or coffee as a beverage is a personal choice, but health benefits favor coffee. Both beverages have caffeine. Tea leaves have more caffeine than coffee beans before they are brewed, but the caffeine in tea is extracted more during brewing within ten seconds and further diluted more when adding hot water. Also, most of the caffeine is left behind with the tea leaves at the base of your cup. For these reasons, brewed tea you enjoy has less caffeine than brewed coffee. Both tea and coffee in excess can increase anxiety, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, insomnia, restlessness and nausea in hypersensitive people. Tea and coffee have protective antioxidants to neutralise free radicals in your body; coffee is a better source of antioxidants. Tea has catechins ...

Is it Tea or Coffee, you prefer?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Let us talk on the subject. All of us drink either both or one preferred beverage daily. Let us talk about what benefits they give us, and harm they can cause. According to Tea Association of the US, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world and sorry to say it is not your cup of Jo. It is the only beverage that can be served hot or cold, and perfect for any occasion. On any given day, over 159 million Americans are sipping on some form of tea. Before that let us find the historical story about the discovery of tea. According to Chinese legend, the history of tea began in 2737 B.C.E. when the Emperor Shen Nong, a skilled ruler and scientist, accidentally discovered tea. While boiling water in the garden, a leaf from an ...