Tea Can Increase Arthritis Risk

Something that is consumed or carried to excess usually does no longer useful. Tea, which is believed to provide various health benefits, if taken too many results actually can increase the risk of arthritis.

Women who drank more than four cups of tea a day are more likely to develop disease by 78 percent, according to a study from Georgetown University Medical Centre. According to a study involving more than 76 000 women, even a cup of tea a day had increased the risk up to 40 percent. But strangely, drinking coffee is not called to give effect whatsoever.

"We wanted to determine whether the consumption of tea or coffee, or the methods used to prepare the tea, which is associated with increased arthritis risk," Professor Christopher Collins said, from the Georgetown University Medical Centre.

However, there are also benefits from drinking tea, including reduced the ovarian cancer risk up to 10 percent, and significantly reduce the chances of developing heart disease and some eye diseases.

Therefore, Professor Collins also advised tea fans not to change the habit of tea drinking from this discovery. "It's obvious connection, but the risk is very small," he said.