Organic Tea Blog

Now more than ever, people are trying to lose weight by thinking green. Green tea is one of the hottest products on the market today. Its medicinal qualities have been known for years. But can green tea actually enable you to shed those unwanted pounds?

It appears that green tea is more than just a passing fad. It has emerged as a legitimate health product which can help you lose weight over the long run. While there is no such thing as a magic fix for weight loss, you should consider adding green tea to your diet, not only for its weight loss value, but for its medicinal properties as well.

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Commodity Online writes:

Fears of ‘Darjeeling Tea’ losing its charm have been growing for quite sometime now. Another factor added to the worries of ‘Darjeeling Tea’ producers was the plantations’ heavy dependence on fertilisers and pesticides that were being hawked by foreign corporations.

The Champagne of Teas has always been one of our favorites. Wikipedia says:

Darjeeling tea, tea from the Darjeeling region in West Bengal, India, has traditionally been prized above all other black teas, especially in the United Kingdom and the countries comprising the former British Empire. When properly brewed it yields a thin-bodied, light-colored liquor with a floral aroma. The flavor also displays a tinge of astringent tannic characteristics, and a musky spiciness often referred to by tea connoisseurs as “muscatel.” A sweet cooling aftertaste should be felt on the mouth.

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Okay, usually you don’t hear about our government officials doing something positive, but I recently came across an online store that sells organic teas called Ambassador Organics. This company was founded by Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, a former senator from Illinois and Ambassador to New Zealand.

According to the website, she became interested in agriculture while spending summers on her great-grandmother’s pecan farm. From this experience, she learned how to farm while keeping close harmony with the environment. This practice is called Biodynamic agriculture.

While in Congress, she championed renewable fuels, improved food safety, health and nutrition. In fact, her entire professional life has been devoted to legal issues concerning environmental and social justice.

Since becoming a private citizen again, she has continued her public service work with founding Good Food Organics™, which Ambassador Organics is a part. This company is a premium, Certified USDA Organic and Biodynamic products company. If you are serious about helping the environment and enjoying some wonderful tea, stop by Ambassador Organics today.

Most of us don’t realize that this tea is often grown on tea plantations in the developing world where the crops are sprayed with many chemicals and pesticides and the workers that pick the leaves are not only exposed to this danger but are often paid a pittance of a wage as well.

Organic and Fairtrade tea, coffee and cocoa are growing in popularity as people realize the benefits of spending those extra pennies per box and the payback in both health and human terms.

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