Tea Helps Preserve Bone Mass

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Hi folks:

Not for the first time it appears tea consumption reduces loss of

bone mass. In this study, female, post-menopausal tea drinkers lost

60% less hip bone mass over four years than non-tea drinkers:

((4.0-1.6)/4.0) x 100 = 60%

" Tea may help women strengthen their hip bones, preventing the risk

of fractures commonly associated with osteoporosis, according to

researchers.

" The Australian study, published in the American Journal of Clinical

Nutrition, was conducted using 1,500 female volunteers, ages 70 to

85, over a five-year period, and tracked the effects of tea

consumption on their bone density.

" The hip bone mineral density of participants was measured during the

first and fifth year of the study. ............. The tea drinkers

lost approximately 1.6 percent of their hip bone mineral density

while non-tea drinkers lost 4 percent. "

SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300997,00.html

A 60% reduction is astonishing to me for such a trivial 'treatment'.

Especially when you consider what tea is .......... 99.99999% water

and 0.000001% active ingredient!

The study appears to be PMID: 17921409. Devine A et al.

Rodney.