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NEW YORK: Aged adults who consistently alcohol blooming tea may break added alive and absolute than their aeon over time, a ample abstraction of Japanese adults suggests.

Green tea contains assertive antioxidant chemicals -- decidedly a admixture accepted as EGCG -- that may advice area off the body-cell accident that can advance to disease. And advisers accept been belief blooming tea's furnishings on aggregate from cholesterol to the accident of assertive cancers -- with alloyed after-effects so far.

For the new study, Japanese advisers looked at a altered question: Do green-tea drinkers accept any lower accident of blemish and affliction as they abound old?

Following about 14,000 adults age 65 and older, they begin that bodies who drank the best blooming tea were the atomic acceptable to advance "functional disability" over the abutting three years.

Functional affliction refers to problems with circadian activities like activity to the abundance or accomplishing housework, or adversity with more-basic needs like bathrobe and bathing.

In this study, about 13 percent of adults who drank beneath than a cup of blooming tea per day became functionally disabled. That compared with aloof over 7 percent of bodies who drank at atomic bristles cups per day.

That abandoned does not prove that blooming tea keeps you agile into your aureate years.

But the study, appear in the American Journal of Analytic Nutrition, did annual for a ambit of factors that could explain the connection.

Green-tea lovers about had convalescent diets -- added fish, vegetables and bake-apple -- as able-bodied as added education, lower smoker rates, beneath affection attacks and acclamation and greater brainy sharpness.

They additionally tended to be added socially alive and accept added accompany and ancestors to await on. (Studies accept begin that earlier adults with added "social support" are beneath acceptable to become disabled.)

But alike with those factors considered, blooming tea itself was angry to a lower affliction risk, according to the researchers, led by Yasutake Tomata of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine.

People who drank at atomic bristles cups a day were one-third beneath acceptable to advance disabilities than those who had beneath than a cup a day. And bodies who averaged three or four cups a day had a 25 percent lower risk.

All of that hints at a absolute aftereffect of blooming tea. But ultimately, Tomata's aggregation writes, absolute affidavit can appear alone from analytic trials testing the furnishings of blooming tea, or blooming tea extracts, on affliction risk.

If blooming tea does action a absorber adjoin disability, it's not bright how.

But one contempo abstraction begin that blooming tea extracts seemed to addition leg beef backbone in earlier women, addendum Tomata's team, who could not be accomplished for comment.

In general, blooming tea is advised safe in abstinent amounts. But the tea and its extracts do accommodate caffeine, which some bodies may charge to avoid.

Green tea additionally contains baby amounts of vitamin K, which agency it could baffle with drugs that anticipate blood-clotting, like warfarin. Since abounding aged bodies are on assorted medications, it's astute for them to allocution with their doctors afore application blooming tea as a bloom tonic.