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    The latest news on that front is that it can make us more creative. In the journal Food Quality and Preference, Yan Huang, from the Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Department of Peking University, illustrates how his 50 subjects performed better when “trying to come up with a cool name for a noodle bar”, among other tasks, when given a cup of tea instead of a glass of water. As marvellous as this info is for the noodle bar franchising industry, the health and cognitive benefits of tea certainly don’t end there. We’ve all had the debate about how to make the tastiest cuppa. But what about the healthiest? Here are some tips: Use cheap, bagged tea Theanine, an amino acid, is at the core of how tea relaxes us. It is extraordinarily useful: good for anxiety, for hi...

    Breastfeeding for six months could reduce type 2 diabetes risk Scientists have discovered a big health benefit for women who breastfeed after analysing the results of a 30-year study on over 1,200 women. It seems as if breastfeeding for six months or more may reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the team from US healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente's division of research has concluded. In fact, the team found that breastfeeding for six months or more cut a woman's chances of getting the disease by almost half (47%), compared to those who hadn't breastfeed at all. And, those participants who breastfed for less time than six months still had a 23% reduction in diabetes risk. We found a very strong association between breastfeeding duration and lower risk...