Green tea could protect the heart

Drinking green tea could help protect against the damage caused by heart attacks and strokes, British researchers suggest. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, a chemical shown in the tea, which has been drunk for over 4,000 years, has been shown to reduce the amount of cell death which follows such trauma. Cell death leads to tissue death and even organ failure. The study was carried out by the UK's Institute of Child Heath http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk and was published in the journal of the Federation of Experimental Biology.