Two for tea

Two tea time stories in the news today. The first reports on a very small study showing that adding milk to tea negates the cardiovascular health benefits because it interferes with nitric oxide (NO), the natural vasodilation controller (You’ll know it from my article on Viagra. The second news item is about the antibacterial effects of green tea (it doesn’t say whether adding milk negates those benefits, but I cannot imagine drinking green tea with milk anyway.)