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  • A pair of female feet on a bathroom scale

    30 Jan Be a better you

    In China, where our natural health tea is grown, tea is seen as part of healthy living. It’s not a miracle cure for anything – but authentic tea can really make you look, feel and be, in better health.  We’ve been in the tea business......

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  • 29 Sep Body-building and Serious Fitness

    For the serious bodybuilder and fitness junky it has tended to be a question of what supplements to take and green tea supplements have been around for a while. But there is a new wave of thinking that whenever possible and beneficial take to the......

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  • 31 May Can Oolong tea help with Complexion as well as slimming?

    There’s loads written about drinking natural Chinese teas and losing weight and there are academic studies supporting it such as a study by The American Society for Nutritional Sciences which found that this tea can increase energy expenditure, the ability of the body to burn......

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  • 31 May Help your body detox with natural health teas?

    For those who want to look beyond the headlines and consider if real Chinese teas can contribute to you feeling healthier, being fitter and looking better, consider this: Drinking natural teas is far more than just reducing calorie intake. In a study at the University......

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  • 30 Nov How Puerh tea can be the antidote to Christmas.

    At Tea Cargo we’ve been banging on about it for ever, and at this time of the year it really is important to note how Puerh tea can help your digestive system cope with too much eating and drinking. Many of us over-do it at......

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  • 31 May How seriously would Jenny take a playful insult?

    Only two words but the worst that Jenny Mills, aged 38, could bear to hear that morning. ‘Morning fatty’, the good looking fun guy from the holiday chalet next door had said as they sat down at adjoining tables in the restaurant for breakfast. Jenny......

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  • 30 Nov Puerh Tea for the big Detox

    Try as we all may, over the Christmas and New Year, we eat and drink too much and put our stomachs under huge stress. Late nights and sleeping in add to the problem as create an environment where fatty deposits and sugars build up in......

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  • 25 Nov Sally and the Christmas Nightmare

    Like many people Sally had a few worrying issues after Christmas. She had visited friends and, quite simply, had a whale of a time. The drinking had started earlier every day, and as you do, the eating went up in proportion to the drinking. Quite......

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  • 29 Jan Swap wine for tea

    Ok, it’s a bit over the top to suggest those (extra) glasses of vino can be replaced by a cuppa. But maybe not? We get a lot of feedback at Tea Cargo, usually from people that have been successful at achieving a personal goal, like......

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  • 29 Jun This iced tea is nice tea

    You can buy packets of iced tea, but generally speaking they’re not very good for you. So why not use real healthy teas, in wonderful summer flavours, to produce something really special? Have a look at The Summer Collection and think about making iced tea with......

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