Regular brews make the ageing bones of elderly women look five years younger and significantly reduce the risk of bone fractures, new research suggests.
Joints become dangerously thin and breakable.
Hormone deficiencies are the leading cause of osteoporosis, so women over the age of 60 are most frequently affected. Kay-Tee Khaw and colleagues at Cambridge University, UK, now report. Others are not so sure that the difference really boils down to tea. Ninety per cent of the subjects in the study drank tea. Milky tea contains calcium and so could help to protect bones.