You know that drinking green tea really does our body good, but having four or more cups a day can make you fidgety because of caffeine.  But you can still enjoy your green tea and get all the benefits without lessening your intake. Decaf it!  To do:  Steep the tea for 30 seconds, then dump [...]

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For a twist on your regular coffee, try making Irish Coffee.  It’s yummy and it’s a perfect after dinner drink. This recipe serves 4. 1 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup sugar 3 cups strong coffee 4 ounces Irish whiskey Whisk cream and sugar together in a medium bowl until stiff peaks form.  Divide coffee and [...]

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Bothered by breath that’s a little, uh, foul?  Then sip a steaming cup of black tea.  An offensive smelling breath or halitosis, is a result of digestive enzymes in the mouth that produce odor-causing porphyromous gingivalis.  Black tea’s chemicals catechin and theaflavin eliminate the stinky bacteria, letting you exhale worry-free.

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Need a detox?  Take 2 cups of dandelion tea daily.  This phytonutrient-rich brew boosts the liver’s production of detoxifying enzymes by as much as 244 percent.  The tea also promotes healing of the digestive tract, flushes excess fluid out of the lymphatic system and boosts gall bladders’s production of bile to speed metabolism and the [...]

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Can’t stop yourself from raiding the fridge?  Here’s a tea mixture that calms carb cravings – green, black and mulberry teas.  It has been recently discovered that drinking a mixture of the three teas blocks carbohydrate absorption by 25% to help keep sugar cravings at bay.  But unlike green and black teas, mulberry tea is [...]

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