| You've heard about green tea's health benefits. | | | | tradesmen, and capitalize on tea taxes turned the |
| Read the details here, reprinted from an article in | | | | colonists against it. Besides throwing British tea |
| Tea Magazine. | | | | into the Boston Harbor, the Americans expressed |
| ACCORDING TO A SEATTLE market-research | | | | their rebellion by switching to a thicker, more |
| firm, the Sage Group, in the five years between | | | | bitter source of caffeine: coffee. |
| 1990 and 1995, tea sales in America quadrupled to | | | | For years, studies in China and Japan have shown |
| four billion dollars a year. Tea is a drink whose | | | | that the folklore about tea does contain some |
| time has come - again. | | | | truth - it does promote longer life. In lung-cancer |
| In the American colonies, tea was the most | | | | experiments with rats, the rats drinking green tea |
| popular beverage until England's efforts to | | | | had only half the cancer rate as the |
| monopolize the tea trade, undercut American | | | | non-tea-drinking rats. |