We love this 'Time for Tea' video by Giulia Baldini

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Did you know... 80% of office workers now claim they find out more about what's going on at work over a cup of tea than in any other way. (UK Tea Council)

Well what better way is there to keep track of the office brews than with our Typhoo Tea Break Tea Chart?

Print a copy for your office!

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With only two sleeps 'til Christmas I'm sure you're all getting into the festive spirit so why not bake some scrummy Christmas dunkers to have with your tea... 

That scrumptious dunkers pic is by George Grinsted

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We like tea. It tastes good, it's warm and comforting and if you're anything like me it's an essential part of your morning wake up routine. But did you know that tea is also actually rather good for you?

WE HEART TEA

An article posted today says that drinking tea is good for your heart. Jeffrey Blumberg, an antioxidant specialist from Tufts University in Massachusetts, says

"People who drink more tea do appear to have less risk of heart disease, and for those who have developed some cardiac event like a heart attack, those who are tea drinkers seem to have a lower incidence of a second event."

Antixoidants are the "goodness" in tea. They help repair and prevent damage caused by "free radicals". Free radicals are not some pop-rock tribute but the by-product created when our body cells create oxygen. It is these free radicals that are linked to a variety of diseases including cancer. As Gloria Tsang puts it, antioxidants are "free radicals scavengers".

5-A-DAY?

As well as helping to fight off disease tea can also count towards your 5-a-day... well sort of! Blumberg says that the antioxidants in tea are

"very similar to those that you find in fruits and vegetables, in tree nuts, in soy." [so] "you're adding more plant food to your diet,"

INTEARESTING FACTS

Still not convinved about the wonders of tea? Well here are a few more inTEAresting facts courtesy of the Tea Advisory Panel...

165,000,000: the number of cups of tea the UK drinks in a day.

40% of the nation's fluid intake today will be tea.

Tea without milk has no calories. Using semi-skimmed milk adds around 13 calories per cup, but you also benefit from valuable minerals and calcium.

Four cups of tea with milk provides 21% of daily calcium requirement.

Tea is a source of the minerals manganese, essential for bone growth and body development, and potassium, vital for maintaining body fluid levels.

P.S. We love this "ILoveTea" pic by John Barbrook

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