Cure-All for Modern Life: Green Tea!

Tea is harvested by real people like this woman, so choose organic, fair-trade leaves when you’re at the store.

While I’m practically allergic to the caffeine in coffee (though I so love the taste), some days I couldn’t get by without a little green or white tea to perk me up. As we’ve all heard ad nauseum fo the past few years, antioxidants, which are found in high levels in green tea, chocolate, pomegranates, blueberries and other foods are cancer fighters ’cause they attack free radicals (which are plentiful in our polluted air and water, even if you live in the middle of nowhere).

But you don’t want to drink just any tea, especially not one made with tea leaves that are of dubious quality (which don’t taste great) or Some great green teas to get you started include:

Srina Green Tea is delicious, with clean, earthy taste and a tidy brew. I got sent some as a sample a few months back and it perks me right up. Their farming eco-credentials are impressive:

Srina™ (pronounced, shrih-nah) is 100% organically grown green tea, hand-plucked and packaged using natural fibers. We grow our green tea on a distinctly high mountainous region of Sri Lanka located on a 90-acre rainforest called Paradise Farm.

Yogi Teas makes most of my favorite teas. All of them are mostly organic, and they have a huge variety of green teas (including non-caffeinated and chai). The teas have their origins in the 1970′s, when followers of Yogi Bhajan, served it in vegetarian restaurants and expanded from there.

Choice Organics green teas are all-organic, harvested sustainably from China, India, Japan and Nepal. They also have a huge selection of green teas; try a couple and figure out which ones are your favorites!

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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3 Comments on “Cure-All for Modern Life: Green Tea!”

Sean
You should check out Dragon Pearl Tea as well, they have excellent products.
12/20/07 » 12:38 am »
Elizabeth
I completely agree about Yogi teas… I have not tried any that I don’t love. After you start to drink a great deal of tea, you really can tell the difference between quality ingredients… Yogi is worth every extra cent you spend on it.
Some women have a problem with shoes… for me its most excellent herbal and green teas
Elizabeth
12/22/07 » 8:52 pm »
Debbie Mumm
Your post brings up some valid points. There is more to good health than just diet. It is a combination of health practices. Dealing with family allergies and asthma usually meant running to the drug store for over the counter medications. I soon learned there are many natural alternatives to allergy medications and for asthma relief. My blog offers many natural alternatives to drugs and also adds health or environmental tips for a healthier lifestyle. http://www.theallergyqueen.blogspot.com
04/15/08 » 5:39 pm »