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Chinese Black, Green & Oolong Tea is NO Health Beverage. Lead, Chromium, Cadmium and Potentially Toxic Levels of Manganese + Endocrine Disrupting PFCs Are the Rule

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"Pesticide pollution: Chinese tea may not be safe to drink," this is what you could read on the website of Greenpeace in 2012, already and obviously this has not changed over the last 2 years | read more I've actually written about the problem with toxins in tea, specifically green tea from China, before and I wouldn't be too sure, whether bad news like the previously reported "-20% Reduction in Green Tea From Just 5 Cups a Day" ( learn more ) could not possibly be a result of heavy metals and/or other toxins, as well. This and the fact that the data I am going to talk about in the following paragraphs is based on analyses of 43 representative tea products (including 18 green, 12 Oolong, and 13 black teas) from 7 main tea production provinces in China makes today's SuppVersity article relevant for everyone who consumes green tea from China or of unkown origin - China is the cheapest, so guess, where it's from ;-) You can learn more about tea ...
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Commercially Available Teas "Not Suitable For Human Consumption": Potentially Hazardous Amounts of Lead, Aluminum, Arsenic & Co in Every Cup

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Would all commercially available teas have to be labeled like this? I am usually not a fan of articles with titles like this one (see above) - they have what you call in Germany "Bildzeitungsniveau" (the German tabloid with news like "World about to disappear in a black hole, when CERN starts operating). It is however hard to resist the urge to use a headline like the one above, if the it fits the results of peer-reviewed scientific paper so well, as it is the case with the relatively recent paper from the University of Alberta and the Luleâ University of Technology in Sweden this SuppVersity article is (almost) all about. The corresponding experiment, the results of which were published in the peer-reviewed open-access Journal of Toxicology in October 2013, already, addresses the increasing concern about contamination of foodstuffs and natural health products. With the emphasis being on foodstuff and health, it's only logical that tea, or more precisely all...
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Coffee Rules, Green Tea Sucks!? Study Links Green Tea to Insulin Resistance and Coffee to Insulin Sensitivity. Statist. Outlier, Long- vs. Short Term Effect or Heavy Metal Toxicity?

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I can't tell if bathing in coffee is healthier than in tea, but my gut tells me that it is. Coffee may rob your sleep (see "Sleepness Nights: Are Pre-Workouts and A Huge Cup of Coffee Messing With Your Sleep?" | more ), but if you look at the currently available epidemiological data, the average coffee drinker is still a pretty healthy chap. Whether this is due or in spite of the stimulating effects of caffeine is not quite certain, but a closer look at its molecular composition reveals that the average cup of real coffee has at least as many potent antioxidants, as green tea. From a molecular perspective coffee is thus by no means inferior to the catechin-laden purported health-elixir green tea. With its glucose-6-phosphatase inhibitory (van Dam. 2006) and insulin sensitizing effects (Shearer. 2003) of its chlorogenic acid and quinide, coffee has, just like green tea, tons of animal data to support its potent anti-diabetic effect. What's healthier tea or coffee...
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Urban Gardening: 12x More Cadmium in Your Tomatoes Than in the Conventional Produce? Plus: Domestic vs. Foreign & Conventional vs. Organic - What's Healthier?

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Image 1: Allotment gardens are the new trend among young families in Germany, 45% of the 1,000,000 allotment gardens that were previously the territory of stuffy men and their garden goblins are already in their hands - that equals a total "acreage" of 21,000hectar - let's hope none of these gardens is right next to a street. Those of you who have listened to the "Urban Gardening" episodes Alisa Profumo did on Super Human Radio back in 2011 (click here to download Part I and Part II ) may remember that it is not impossible to grow your own vegetables, herbs and more - and that not just in a large garden. In fact, " urban gardening ", which has here in Germany long been regarded as antiquated and "for grandmas and grandpas only" has become fashionable again, as more and more people enjoy the comfort of "knowing what they eat". Unfortunately, a recently published German study shows that believing does not mean knowing; or do y...
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Alarmingly High Levels of Lead in Calcium Supplements: Pb Content per Serving Up to 18x Over "Acceptable Levels".

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Image 1: You better pick the right source of calcium: healthy milk / dairy vs. lead poisoned pills from your local pharmacy or supermarket - you still have the choice. This, I can assure you, is a " SuppVersity News ", i.e. something you will not read on the major news portals, simply because there is too much money at stake in the 3billion $ market for calcium supplements (figure according to January 2008 edition of "Heartwire") - money a huge part of which is spent by Novartis & Co to advertise their products to consumers from all age groups, regardless of the individuals' dietary calcium intake; and that despite accumulating evidence for an association of supplemental calcium intake and heart disease (for one of the latest reviews cf. Bolland. 2011 )! A very recent study published in the Journal of Biological Trace Element Research ( Rehman. 2011 ) does yet cast another, even darker shadow onto the "healthy" white chalk tabs... What? ...
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