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The contest between tea and coffee

Published: 2026-08-24 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/24, A professor in Scotland said the results showed that Britain's favorite tea contains harmful chemicals that damage cells and cause heart attacks, strokes and cancer.

The beneficial use of tea as a beverage has now been widely recognized all over the world. But there is a process. In the early days, tea was not accepted by all people. Let me cite an example: when tea was introduced into Europe, during the period of King Gustav III of Sweden, there were different views on the function of tea. Some people thought that tea was oriental and beneficial, while others thought that tea was the same as coffee. Drinking too much for a long time will be addictive and harmful to your health.

Natural opponent: the contest between Tea and Coffee

In order to verify the efficacy of tea and coffee, the king decided to use people to experiment. Coincidentally, when a pair of twin brothers were locked up for a capital crime, the king ordered his brother to drink five cups of tea a day and his younger brother five cups of coffee a day until he fell ill and died, thus avoiding immediate beheading. As a result, the elder brother lived to 87 years old and the younger brother lived to 83 years old, indicating that both tea and coffee are safe to drink, but tea is better than coffee.

Since then, the popularity of tea drinking in Sweden has promoted the popularity of tea drinking customs in Europe.

In addition, the Liberation Daily of August 7, 1999 published an article that "drinking tea is not better than drinking coffee". The article said: Scottish doctors poured cold water on the argument that drinking tea is better than drinking coffee.

A professor in Scotland said the results showed that Britain's favorite tea contains harmful chemicals that damage cells and cause heart attacks, strokes and cancer.

Last month, a US study showed that people who drank one or more cups of tea a day had a 44% lower risk of heart attack than those who did not drink tea. Tonstar of Scotland and his team spent 10 years studying 11000 people between the ages of 40 and 59 in Scotland and found that the more coffee they drank, the lower the risk of heart disease and death. The situation of drinking tea is just the opposite.

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