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Archive for February, 2012
Sip your way to a slimmer life with Cho Yung Tea
Feb 23rd
Cho-Yung Tea has launched its new-look weight-loss green tea, helping Brits conquer the calories naturally this spring with a refreshing cuppa.
The best selling green tea blend is loved by celebrities and customers alike for its convenient health and diet properties with an impressive 700,000 packs sold in Holland & Barrett’s 700 health food stores in 2011 alone.
Model and Photographer Penny Lancaster Stewart combined two cups a day with exercise and diet to regain her pre-pregnancy body, while wife of footballer Gary Lineker, Danielle, is also a fan saying the most positive effect of drinking Cho Yung Tea was its benefits to her skin.
Cho Yung Tea uses herbal ingredients to stimulate ‘fat oxidation’ – burning the body’s fat reserves as fuel. Dieters simply drink two cups per day as well as follow a healthy eating plan and moderate exercise to help speed up their weight loss.
Nutritionist Kate Butler BSC Hons comments: “There is evidence to suggest drinking green tea can slow down weight gain even when accompanied by a fatty diet. A green tea like Cho Yung is perfect for those trying to lose weight as it helps to support metabolism.”
Based on a 400 year old Chinese recipe, Cho-Yung Tea is made from natural ingredients including Lotus Leaf to optimise digestion, Alisma to reduce bloating, and Cassia seeds and Poria. Each individual tea bag also contains Jiaogulan (or Southern Ginseng) a plant indigenous to Japan, China and Southern Korea. This ingredient, often referred to as ‘the immortality herb’ is unique to the Cho-Yung blend and has a calming effect to help regulate the digestive system.
Priced at £39.99 for 30 teabags, Cho-Yung Tea is available from Holland & Barrett stores nationwide and online at www.choyungtea.com
Make Time for Tea
Feb 17th
The Eve Appeal gynaecological cancer research charity is asking women to Make Time for Tea during Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in March, hold a tea party and celebrate the revival of all things vintage to help save the lives of the women we love.
Over 6,500 women in the UK are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year and 4,400 will die. Grim statistics, yet funding and awareness of ovarian cancer remains low. The Eve Appeal is determined to change this and by taking part in the Make Time for Tea campaign you will be helping all women by funding groundbreaking research into this deadly disease.
This year’s campaign, now in its seventh year, has a vintage theme and will be spearheaded again by ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly. Lorraine has offered ‘money can’t buy’ competition prizes open to anyone holding a tea party – the opportunity to attend the live filming of ‘Lorraine’ at the ITV Studios in London followed by brunch at a top London hotel – and winners of the 3 competition categories will also be treated to a professional cupcake master class.
In the UK we drink 165 million cups of tea every day so next time you put the kettle on please think about the 4,400 mothers, sisters, grandmothers, aunts and daughters lost to ovarian cancer this year. Let’s make 2012’s diamond jubilee year the best yet – The Eve Appeal are aiming for 500 tea parties to help them reach their target of £150,000.
To find out more visit the Eve Appeal website where you can also enter the competition to take tea with Lorraine Kelly.
A Northern Tail
Feb 3rd
This beautiful paper cutting was created by Sally Robinson, a student at the University of Leeds, in her final year of obtaining a Bachelor’s in Fine Art. Sally mainly works with paper, and this was a paper cutting which was used for an exhibition in Leeds about memories of the North of England. The title – A NORTHERN TAIL – was based on the idea that these memories forever follow us around. For Sally, tea played a large part of her nostalgia for the north. She fondly remembers visiting relatives and grandparents, stopping by each house for a cup of tea and a huge selection of biscuits – often presented on a special ‘Tea’ trolley. The patterns on the tea-pot resemble those owned by her great aunt.
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