22 Celebrities who love tea (We're sure there's more)

1. Lady Gaga
2. Peter Seller
3. Michael Caine
4. Penelope Cruz
5. Al Pacino
6. Dean Martin
7. Helena Bonham Carter
8. Meryl Streep
9. Hugh Laurie
10. Kevin Spacey
11. Johnny Depp
12. David Beckham
13. Jimi Hendrix
14. James Dean
15. Taylor Swift
16. C.S Lewis
17. Mick Jagger
18. Pamela Anderson
19. Ozzy Osbourne
20. Daniel Craig
21. Pierce Brosnan
22. Sean Connery

Source: zesttea.com

At Dinasou.com, where you can Earn, Shop & Save, we have a varied selection of teas. Check out the whole selection here.

Brand Street: Ruyi Tea — Green tea with 4 flavours & added benefits

Dinasou.com sells a line of traditional green tea infusions on Brand Street under the brand Ruyi Tea. But their speciality is actually the Guava Leaf Tea which originates from Taiwan. Previously, Dinasou.com has mentioned that we sell ready-to-drink (RTD) Chinese herbal drinks by a Hong Kong brand, Hung Fook Tong. Now, we want you to have a look at Ruyi Tea, distributed by a Malaysian company and imported from China. They offer four green tea infusions — Ruyi Rose Green Tea, Ruyi Peppermint Green Tea, Ruyi Osmanthus Green Tea and Ruyi Jasmine Green Tea. Now you have the option of drinking RTD Chinese herbal teas, or opt for the traditional green tea that has long list of health benefits. The choice is yours, and at Dinasou.com, we want to offer you a wide variety of choices.

The benefits of Chinese herbal drinks

Let's focus on Chinese herbs and their benefits to your overall health and well-being. First is the Canton Love-pes Vine. Its benefits are as follows:

– Can remove heat that is toxic to the body

– Induce urination

– Enhance liver function 

– Eliminate stasis

– Relieves fatigue, gastric distension and pain

– Lifts up low spirits

– May help prevent hepatitis and urinary stones

The second Chinese herb is the Selfheal Fruit Spike (Spica Prunellae). It is used as a tonic in China. Its benefits include:

– The treatment of fevers and rheumatism

– In China, if there is an outbreak of an infectious disease, the selfheal fruit spike herb can help keep people well.

– Helps liver function, resulting in clear and bright eyes

– Alleviates swollen lymph glands and lumps in the neck

– Helps boost immunity

– For women who are having that time of the month, this herb can help ease bloating or indigestion, urinary problems or heavy bleeding

Lucky for you, we sell these herbs in the form of ready-to-drink herbal tea drinks, sold by the Hung Fook Tong Group. To know more about the company, read here.

Canton Love-pes Vine drink
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Common Selfheal Fruit-spike drink
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The Benefits of Black Soybean Tea

Black Soybeans

Hey, do you want to know the secret of maintaining your weight, at the same time ensuring that you remain healthy? The answer is Black Soybean Tea, or 'kuromame' tea. What makes drinking black soybean tea any different than, say, green tea? To be perfectly honest, green tea has been said to be the healthiest beverage in the world and its health benefits outweigh that of black soybean tea. Having said that, it's not that black soybean tea does not have any health benefits at all. In fact, some of them are similar to those of green tea, such as maintaining or losing weight, for example. Here are some of the benefits of black soybean tea.

Black soybean tea has long been used in Chinese medicine to clear toxins from the body and encourage urination. It has been linked to effective weight loss, at the same time providing a healthy diet.

You may ask, what are the nutrients in black soybean that help promote these benefits. For one, it contains polyphenols, which are compounds known for their anti-aging properties. A specific polyphenol contained in black soybean is anthocyanin, which has been shown to help promote lipid metabolism, lower cholesterol, act against aging and prevent cancer. A study of a group of mice that has been published in the Journal of Medicinal Food has indicated that anthocyanin inhibited fat absorption in the mice. Compared to the control group, the group of mice which had anthocyanin introduced into their diet had a higher amount of fat in their diet. There was no additional weight gain recorded for that group of mice after anthocyanin was introduced into their diet.

Another polyphenol found in black soybeans are isoflavones, which are a type of anti-oxidant. Isoflavones has been indicated to help fight certain types of cancer, such as breast cancer. They also promote lipid metabolism, a critical process in which your body fat is mobilized to be used as energy. Isoflavones also help control circulatory blood fats.

Introducing Yakuno Black Soybean Tea. The rare soybeans are grown in the Tamba region of Kyoto. To know more about their other benefits, read here.

Yakuno Black Soybean Tea
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4 tips on drinking coffee in a healthier way

Do you know that drinking too much coffee, which contains caffeine, can put a pressure on the stomach, kidneys, liver and andrenal glands? When the body is trying to get rid of the excess caffeine, it will also result in the excretion of vital vitamins and minerals. These are just some of the negative effects of drinking too much coffee. So, you should always bear in mind the adage: "Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing".

Luckily there are tips on how to drink coffee in a healthier way. Here are 4 of them:

1. Change to organically grown coffee

    Those that are grown the conventional way are exposed to too much pesticides. Choose coffee brands that have entered fairtrade practices with farmers who grow organic coffee.

2. Avoid flavoured coffees, and no sugar please.

    Flavoured coffees (Yeah, we know some of you love 'em), are full of artificial flavourings. So, we don't want that, do we? And on that note, try as much to put as little sugar as possible in your coffee.

3. Drink only ONE cup of coffee per day

    We know this is too much to ask for coffee lovers out there, but we're not asking you to cut down from drinking 10 cups of coffee per day to just 1 cup of coffee per day on the first day itself. Gradually cut down the number to eight for the first week, and six for the following week and so on. This enables you to wean off the need for that caffeine fix without shocking your system. The ideal amount of coffee that your liver can handle is eight ounces per day. That's doable, right?

4. Just ENJOY that one cup of coffee.

    Why should you be made to feel guilty about the simple pleasures of life, which includes drinking coffee? Just make sure that it is organic, ground-at-home coffee. After all, stressing about drinking coffee will only add unnecessary stress on yourself, and stress is a major factor in depleting the nutrients out of your body. So, just ENJOY your cup of coffee. Remember, MODERATION IS KEY.

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5 Must-Read Benefits of Coffee (No. 2 is my favourite)

Are you a coffee lover? Do you know some of its benefits? Just read on then...

Below are the 5 clinically proven health benefits of coffee:

1. Energy levels can be improved by drinking coffee and it can make you smarter

Caffeine, the world's most commonly consumed psychoactive substance, is abundantly found in coffee. Hence, drinking coffee make people feel less tired and at the same time raise their energy levels.

Coffee has been shown to improve various aspects of brain function that includes general cognitive function, reaction times, vigilance, mood and memory.

2. Coffee can help you burn fat

The metabolic rate of a person can be improved by 3% to 11% with the consumption of caffeine, according to studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the US National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health.

Another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has indicated that the burning of fat can be increased by as much as 10% in in obese people and 29% in lean people with the consumption of caffeine.

However, long-term coffee drinkers may not experience as much of these effects anymore.

3. Coffee may lower your risk of Type II diabetes

According to studies published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the Lancet and the Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases website, there is a lower risk of 23% to 50% of getting Type II diabetes for people who drink the most coffee. One study even shows a reduction as high as 67%.

According to a JAMA Internal Medicine study, there is a 7% reduced risk of developing Type II diabetes for those who consumed a cup of coffee on a daily basis. This is based on 18 studies with a total of 457,992 individuals.

4. Coffee can make you happier and fight depression

The risk of depression for women who drank 4 or more cups of coffee on a daily basis was lowered by 20%, according to a Harvard study published in 2011.

A JAMA Internal Medicine paper published in 1996 pointed to a study of 208,424 individuals who were 53% less likely to commit suicide after drinking 4 or more cups of coffee on a daily basis .

Number 5 is we think is by far the most important reason for you to drink coffee. It has been found that the chances of getting certain types of cancer is lowered with the consumption of coffee.

According to AGAJournals.org and the International Journal of Cancer published in 2005, the risk of getting liver cancer for coffee drinkers is lowered by up to 40%.

According to a 2012 publication in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the chances of getting colorectal cancer is lowered by 15% for those who drank 4-5 cups of coffee on a daily basis. This study is based on the research done on 489,706 individuals.

Here are some of the coffee products sold on Dinasou.com.

Nescafe 3-in-1 Original
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OLD TOWN White Coffee 3-in-1 Ice Cold
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INDOCAFE Original Blend
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Brand Street: Huru White Coffee & Milk Tea

What's so great about Huru White Coffee & Milk Tea compared with the typical coffee and tea products, one may ask? For one, they contain Brown Rice, which is full of nutrients such as the Vitamin B group, in addition to minerals and amino acids. Another reason that Huru White Coffee & Milk Tea are good for your health is because they contain Tiger Milk Mushroom (TMM). The benefits of TMM include alleviating joint pain due to injury or in the elderly, as well as joint pain as a result of dengue fever and chikungunya. The ability to alleviate such pain is attributed to TMM's anti-inflammatory element.

Admit it, you want to try Huru out. But, you're afraid that they may not taste as good as other coffee and tea products. At Dinasou.com, we just want to say Shop, Earn & Save! At RM29.70 for 12 sachets of Huru White Coffee and 10 sachets of Huru Milk Tea, we say that ain't bad as they contain ingredients not readily available in most conventional coffee and tea products. So, go ahead. Give 'em a look here.