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Welcome Summer with These Beautiful Iced Tea Glasses

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Tea Glasses

 
You’re ready for summer, I’m ready for summer… but most importantly, these gorgeous Tea Glasses are ready for summer. Lots of summer.

I was thinking the other day (promise) and tea is one of the few drinks or foods, for that matter, that adapt to the weather so beautifully and effortlessly. If it’s hot outside, nothing… absolutely nothing… in the world is as Heavenly as a tall glass of iced tea.

When the weather’s cold, hot tea will warm you from your head to your toes. Tea’s so adaptable, it’ll even conform to fit the time of day. In the morning, it’ll serve as your wake up call with glorious, life-giving caffeine. In the evening, ask it to come to your cup sans its caffeine and it’ll bring your day to a beautiful, peaceful close.

Is it any wonder we love it so?

I made my own version of Red Lobster’s Boston Iced Tea yesterday (I’ll share the details in the next post), and I’m just picturing how beautiful it’d look in one of the tea glasses above.

To take a closer look at the ridiculously beautiful Tea Glasses shown above, click the link.  These are drop dead gorgeous.

Green tea may help maintain good health, post-menopause

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Kent & Sussex Summer Raspberry Green Tea

Ahhhh, yes. Another article singing the praises of sweet, sweet green tea. The article below talks about the polyphenols in green tea vitamin supplements helping women improve bone health and lower stress. While this currently isn’t a problem for me (I’m 26 going on 15), I look forward to green tea making me a very happy person for years to come. Read on!

Plenty of Americans drink green tea for its taste and mild caffeine content, but a new study has found that a substance found in the beverage – as well as in some dietary supplements – may help women stay healthy after menopause.

Called polyphenols, this class of compounds was found to reduce inflammation and improve bone health, in a study led by researchers at the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at the Texas Tech University.

Scientists did not ask participants to drink green tea, however. Instead, the study’s 171 postmenopausal women were given daily vitamin supplements containing 500 milligrams of the substance. This amount is the equivalent of four to five cups of unsweetened green tea.

The research team found that after six months on such a regimen, participants displayed better bone health and fewer bloodborne markers of oxidative stress.

Polyphenols are known to act as an antioxidant, preventing highly charged ions called free radicals for damaging cell parts and fast-tracking both inflammation and the aging process.

Besides improving cellular and bone health, herbal supplements that contain green tea extract may improve mood and overall well-being.

Source: Better Health Research