Steep It Loose — HEALTH & WELLNESS

Matcha Spoon

Simple to understand, yet difficult to uncover.

The other day I was describing to one of my accounts how important it was to put the right amount of tea leaves in for the amount of tea you wanted to make, e.g. 1 teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8oz cup of tea, 2 teaspoons of tea leaves for a 16oz cup of…

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Tea and Honey

Tea and Honey

It’s noticeable, that particularly in Europe, people tend to think about sweetening their tea with honey.I can’t remember the last time someone brought me some honey with my coffee, and this got me wondering why… does sweetening tea with honey really work better than sugar?I think the answer lies in that the subtlety of tea…

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Black Tea

Drinking Black Teas May Lower Blood Sugar

A substance in Black Tea has been found to mimic type 2 diabetes drugs Precose and Glyset. This interesting information comes from today’s WebMD Health News, and is based on a report by Haixia Chen and colleagues of Tianjin University, China. Their findings, published in the current issue of the Journal of Food Science, state…

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Probably not your cup of tea…

Probably not your cup of tea…

Lately, I’ve wondered more than once about what is Tea Tree Oil? There are spray bottles standing around the yoga studio where I go with water mixed with this stuff, and I always spray some on my beloved purple yoga mat after every class, assuming that I’m doing it some good. As it turns out,…

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