Benefits of tea
We’ve already heard a gazillion times about the numerous benefits of green tea, but did you know that these teas also have many health benefits that aren’t talked about as often:
1. Chammomile tea
2. Hibiscus tea (common in most “herbal teas”)
Chammomile
In fact, I just read a study the other day that indicated chammomile tea can help to control blood sugar levels (which can help diabetics but also non-diabetics too), and more stable blood sugar levels can possibly help you to lose body fat as well.
I’ve also seen theories that some of the natural compounds in chammomile tea can help to counteract the effect of estrogenic pesticides and other chemicals that our bodies encounter through our food supply and environment.
Since chammomile tea also is known as a calming or relaxing tea, I try to have my daily cup of chammomile tea an hour or so before bedtime each night.
Hibiscus
As for Hibiscus tea (usually the main ingredient in many “herbal” teas), I also recently read a study that shows a mild, but helpful reduction in blood pressure from drinking hibiscus tea daily.
The study I read about for hibiscus tea was presented at an American Heart Association conference:
“The findings show that the volunteers who drank hibiscus tea had a 7.2 point drop in their systolic blood pressure, compared to a 1.3 point drop in the volunteers who drank the placebo beverage”.
*Other teas – green, white, black, oolong, red, mate, etc*
At this point, we’ve pretty much seen studies that showed benefits of almost every single type of tea in existence, which makes sense, because all teas have different and unique types of antioxidants in varying levels.
Because so many different teas have so many different benefits and types of antioxidants, I try to get a good variety of almost every type of tea.
What I like to do is make big batches of iced tea each week by brewing 3 or 4 different types of teas into the iced tea batch and I use a slightly different combo each week for variety. I usually just lightly sweeten the batches of tea with a little stevia  and a little bit of raw honey.
So some weeks I might choose a mixture of green tea, white tea, hibiscus tea, and red tea… and then the next week, I might choose a mixture of black tea, oolong tea, mate, and white tea and so on.
The great thing is you get a slightly different taste each time too, so it never gets old!
I’ll even mix in some mint tea occasionally for some more variety and different antioxidants.
By using such a variety of teas on a daily basis, you really get a huge variety of antioxidants that can be more beneficial than just drinking the same type of hot tea or iced tea every single day.
Drink up!! 
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