tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90331142323630163632012-02-16T20:25:19.811-08:00Weight Loss TeaWLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9033114232363016363.post-75270043340875930192010-11-16T21:43:00.001-08:002010-11-16T21:45:18.175-08:0010 Great Health Benefits From Drinking TeaPeople have been drinking tea for enjoyment for centuries. For just as long, tea drinkers have believed that tea is beneficial to one’s health. In ancient China, tea was thought to prevent liver disease and cleanse the body. Scientific studies in recent years have shown that there are true health benefits to gain from drinking tea. what can you do for yourself by drinking tea? Here are ten WLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9033114232363016363.post-78279146494942636092010-11-09T16:26:00.001-08:002010-11-09T16:27:08.724-08:00What Do Tea Grades Mean?Tea is an evergreen plant that is indigenous to China and some regions of India. The word tea refers to both the plant itself and also to the infusion resulting from steeping in hot water. Women hand harvest the tea leaves and submit for size sorting and grading. Leaves are oxidized, fired, and sorted by passing them over vibrating screens of different mesh sizes to produce grades with even sizedWLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9033114232363016363.post-79066661250702903512010-11-04T21:21:00.000-07:002010-11-04T21:22:24.184-07:00All About Tea BagsThe very first tea bags did not exist until tea had been around for about four thousand years. Several tea and coffee merchants in 1903 New York City sold both tea samples and bulk tea wrapped up in hand-sewn silk bags for shipment around the globe. The intention was that people who bought the tea would tear the bag open and pour the contents into a teapot into which they would then pour the hot WLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9033114232363016363.post-44525992696035550392010-10-28T09:02:00.001-07:002010-10-28T09:04:11.961-07:00How To Serve Tea ProperlyThe tradition of tea is beautiful and rich. People have been drinking tea for hundreds of years. The benefits of tea are countless. However, you may be overwhelmed, and not exactly know how to serve tea correctly.
To begin, you must Hot the Pot. This is simply pouring hot water into the teapot and letting it sit long enough for the pot to warm up. Since the teapot is warmed, the tea will not WLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9033114232363016363.post-54183145188920637802010-10-27T09:34:00.000-07:002010-10-27T09:34:19.257-07:00What Is Tea?Tea is one of most popular beverages in the world, second only to water. Its origins can be traced back to ancient China. It is estimated that tea was introduced into Western culture in the 16th century.
Types of tea
There are many tea variations, but they all fall into these five basic categories: Black, green, herbal, oolong, and a miscellaneous category where teas are prepared by WLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9033114232363016363.post-42007031446898066272010-09-14T13:24:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:26:03.084-07:00Brief History Of TeaThough tea trees (known botanically as Camellia sinensis) have grown in India and Indochina for at least several thousand years, the Yunnan Province in China is said to have had the world's first cultivated tea tree, from around 2700 B.C. The concurrent legend of a Chinese Emperor's discovery of tea as a pleasing drink because of the accidental wind-drift of dried tea leaves into a cup of hot WLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03698279679306889934noreply@blogger.com