SYDNEY (Dispatches) -- Scientists have reported that a daily cup of tea like many flavonoids , help you to enjoy better health late in life.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers have indicated how flavonoids such as black and green tea, apples, nuts, citrus fruit, berries and more may be even better for us than previously thought.
The Heart Foundation supported a study of 881 elderly women (median age of 80), which found they were far less likely to have extensive build-up of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) if they consumed a high level of flavonoids in their diet.
AAC is the calcification of the abdominal aorta -- the largest artery in the body which supplies oxygenated blood from the heart to the abdominal organs and lower limbs -- and is a predictor of cardiovascular risk such as heart attack and stroke.
It has also been found to be a reliable predictor for late-life dementia.
Study participants who had a higher intake of total flavonoids, flavan-3-ols and flavonols were 36-39 per cent less likely to have extensive AAC.
Black tea was the study cohort’s main source of total flavonoids and was also associated with significantly lower odds of extensive AAC.