Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Black Tea Helps Treat Osteoporosis

Black tea could help treat osteoporosis, a bone condition affecting older people, revealed scientists of Osaka University. However, they admit that one needs to drink an awful lot of it. Researchers found that black tea contains an antioxidant, theaflavin-3 (TF-3), that can prevent the loss of bone density, by inhibiting the function of an enzyme called DNA methyltransferase, which destroys bone tissue. During the study, mice suffering from osteoporosis ...

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