Huntington’s Chorea is a devastating, progressive neurological disorder. It is an inherited disease that manifests in uncontrolled movements most of the time but can also result in muscular rigidity. The disorder commonly progresses to a state of dementia and finally death within 10 - 30 years of onset. The symptoms of the disease are usually [...]
I’m always delighted to have Dr. John Weisburger share some of his vast knowledge of tea with us and its profound health implications. I think Dr. Weisburger’s comments are relevent to everyone.
“Medical research and especially cancer research has pinpointed desirable and undesirable lifestyle factors as regards to the occurrence and prevention of chronic [...]
I’d like to use my first post as an opportunity to show the importance of tea in an athlete’s diet. I’m a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet, a company known for having one of the most demanding schedules in the dance world. The need to perform at the top of my game [...]
The flavor of Zen and the flavor of tea is the same.
-Japanese proverb
Instead of the Emperor Shen Nong, various Buddhists are sometimes given credit for the discovery of tea. A contempo rary of Pythagoras, Zoroaster, and Confucius, the Buddha lived in India in the 500s BCE. After his death his teachings con tinued to spread and in [...]
Reaching for my tea bowl as I was preparing to practice chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony, I was shocked to see that my chawan (tea bowl) had cracked. With my touch, the pieces fell out, leaving gaps in the bowl's rim. Seeing the broken chawan had a profound impact on me.
I decided to consult the [...]
I always have my eye out for cool tea houses. Every once in a while, I see something different. Someplace whose description tempts you to visit. The Park Hyatt Washington is such a place. The outrageous prices appear to go with the flow. Perhaps I'll see you there.
Now that summer is officially over, the events calendar in New York is heating up, and many of the recent activities were tea based. Curtis Vreeland, who writes about chocolate industry trends, contacted me to propose a “tea and chocolate crawl” in preparation for an article he was researching about confections made with matcha tea. [...]
The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it
is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons
of self-restraint and inner worth.
-Lu Yü (715-803), Ch’a Ching
The Victorian art critic John Ruskin once said, “to see a thing and tell it in plain words is the greatest thing a soul can do “-and that’s exactly [...]
As the medicinal qualities of the tea leaf became more widely known, the demand for it increased and spread to all the corners of the Chinese empire. Far from its birthplace in China's southwest, the nomadic tribes in Mongolia began depending on tea, not just for its healing properties but for basic nutrition. With a [...]
An 11 year study from Japan involving over 40,000 subjects published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that drinking green tea was associated with fewer deaths by stroke. Heart attack deaths were also decreased, but not as dramatically. The association was stronger for women than men, and stronger for greater [...]
