Tea is full of antioxidants, unlike coffee.
Antioxidants repairs and renews cells, and tea is an outstanding source of these, unlike coffee. Antioxidants hep prevent cancer and coronary heart disease. Another benefit of antioxidants is glowing skin from antioxidants anti-aging powers.
Tea contains catechin and polysaccharide, unlike coffee.
These chemicals prevent blood clots and lower your risk of strokes and heart disease. This means tea is actively working against two of the major killers in Australia and is protecting you from diseases you are seriously at risk from with one that doesn’t.
Tea is great for your teeth, whereas coffee stains them.
Tea contains fluoride and tannins, which kill plaque and prevent tooth decay. So swapping to tea introduces another plaque killer into your day, compared to coffee that stains your teeth. Combined with a regular dental hygiene program, tea will give you a much better smile then regular coffee drinkers.
Tea has less caffeine then coffee.
What is caffeine and why is too much caffeine for bad for you? Caffeine is a psychoactive stimulant drug, and is a crystalline xanthine alkaloid substance. Said like that, it does sound like something best avoided, and the effects of too much caffeine are considerable. Not only does caffeine cause anxiety and irritability, it can also cause cardio vascular issues, burning sensation in the stomach and adrenal fatigue causing you to feel tired and susceptible to inflammation.
Tea helps you lose weight; coffee can actually cause weight gain.
Because the most popular coffees are predominantly milk compared to tea that has no calories and is mainly hot water, substituting tea for coffee can shave a significant amount of kilojoules ff your total intake every day. Not only does tea, especially green tea boost your metabolism, but coffee also contains more caffeine, which stimulates blood sugar swings resulting in more stored fat. Not only that, but adding a teapot full of zero calories to your day can help save you lots of unwanted kilojoules.
Tea reduces cortisol, the stress hormone, unlike coffee with more caffeine that causes anxiety.
Studies have found that participants who drank 4 cups of tea a day for a month had an average 20% drop in cortisol, one of the major stress hormones. While coffee has considerable benefits for memory through higher caffeine levels, tea also contains the amino acid L-thiamine which makes you simultaneously calmer and more alert.
Both coffee and tea lower your risk of Parkinson disease, but tea also lowers your risk of cancer.
Especially breast, prostate and lung cancer, because tea is a powerful potion of natural disease fighting chemicals. Whilst coffee is also a naturally occurring substance it doesn’t come close to the positive minerals and substances naturally present in tea.
Tea can be used in a detox, where you must deliberately avoid coffee!
Green and white teas are the backbone of many effective detoxes, in which you can’t drink coffee due to coffee’s levels of toxins. Therefore drinking tea rather then coffee everyday means there are less toxins for your body to eliminate in your lymphatic system every day.
Tea fights infection, coffee doesn’t, because it’s just a little bit like a tumor.
Tea contains alkylamine antigens that are similar enough to tumour cells and bacteria that they train your bodies immune system to fight bacteria and tumours, without the damage. Studies have shown this has a dramatic effect on septis, a serious infection.
Coffee is more addictive then tea due to considerably higher caffeine.
There is a much higher reported rate of caffeine addiction amongst coffee drinkers then tea drinkers, because tea has a lower amount of caffeine per drink. The pain and stress involved in breaking that addiction, or the hassle and cost of maintaining caffeine addiction can be more easily avoided by drinking tea rather than coffee.