A Japanese research study has concluded that drinking two cups of green tea per day will reduce the risk of heart disease. Researchers from Okayama University worked with 12,000 study participants between the ages of 65-84. Each person was asked to fill out a questionnaire to answer questions about their diet, the amount of alcohol they drank, and whether they were smokers.
The participants were followed for seven years. During that time, more than 1,200 of them died. When the researchers analyzed the questionnaires, they found the people who drank green tea regularly were less likely to have passed away during the time the study ran.
When study participants drank between 420 ml and 560 ml each day, they were 75 percent less likely to die from heart or circulatory disease than people who drank less than a cup of green tea daily.
