Tag Archives: tea

Business/Economics

How would you like your Coffee? Black, White or Asian? Or, Would you like some Cancer with your Tea or Energy Drink?

A small study was done on women who drank beverages with caffeine. The results showed that it mattered if the woman was Caucasian, black-African, or Asian.

Regarding coffee, Asian women had a jump in estrogen levels.  Caucasian women had a huge drop in estrogen, and black-African women had very little change.

The study also suggested that women of child bearing age are not affected by coffee: “For women of reproductive age, drinking coffee will not alter their hormonal function in a clinically significant way.”-Enrique Schisterman, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

However, caffeinated soda pop, and black teas, caused an across the board increase in estrogen for all women in the study!  The researchers are concerned because some cancers are linked to high levels of estrogen.

The study did not look at how caffeine affects women older than 44 years.  It was released online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

2010: ALCOHOL IN ENERGY DRINKS? NOT MANY.

Business/Economics, International

A true entrepreneur: Chinese man to grow Green Tea with Panda Crap, justifies charging outrageous prices for it

A teacher at southwest China’s Sichuan University learned that Panda’s use only 30% of what they eat, so that means 70% of what they crap is still full of wholesome nutrition.

An Yanshi, the university teacher, is so convinced that he could get people to pay insane prices for Green Tea grown in Panda crap that he even got a patent for his idea!

An Yanshi thinks he can get people to pay as mush as $34,422 for half a kilogram (one pound) for the Panda Manu Tea!!!  I wounder if this guy is smoking the tea instead of drinking it?

An official with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, pointed out that the university teacher needs to do a study to see if Panda crap will actually make a difference in how Green Tea grows, before he starts charging people sky high prices.

 

 

Fukushima

Government & Corporate Incompetence: More Japanese Tea contminated with Cesium!

As the nuclear disaster continues in Japan, more tea leaves have been found with extremely high levels of cesium.

The Japanese health ministry says radioactive cesium has been detected in harvested tea leaves in Chiba and Saitama prefectures, near Tokyo  (about 297km or 185 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant).

One type of tea from Chiba Prefecture contained 2,720 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram, more than 5 times the safety limit.

1,530 becquerels per kilogram was detected in three kinds of tea leaves from Saitama Prefecture.

The local governments will try to trace which tea farms the contaminated leaves came from.

Fukushima

Government & Corporate Incompetence: More Japanese tea farms contaminated with Cesium!

Another tea growing prefecture is now contaminated with dangerous levels of cesium.  Tochigi prefectural government says 1,810 becquerels per kilogram of cesium is contaminating the harvest, piked earlier this week.

The levels are three times the safe limits set by the Tochigi government.  Tochigi Prefecture is 160 kilometers (99.4 miles) from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

This latest prefecture is part of a growing list of prefectures that have stopped tea shipments because of cesium.  Others include Chiba, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures. Shizuoka is Japan’s largest tea producer.