keen readers will probably not be strangers to the immense benefits that accompanies regular consumption of drinking tea. Science has just proved that drinking tea has the ability to make any person more creative than others who prefer to stay off it.
A steaming cup of tea is enough to bump someone back to life in the morning, or soothe you to bed at night after a hard day's work. It has worked significantly well in repressing a harsh cough or simply to warm the body up after a chilly day.
A new study conducted at the Researchers at Peking University’s School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences in China believes that drinking tea has the ability to boost creativity, and that a cup could be the long-awaited remedy for the dreaded brain sludge or the creativity boost a writer needs after a block.
The participants in the study who were composed of 50 students averagely around the age of 23, were divided into two groups: Participants in the first group were given a cup of black tea to drink, while the other group were given a glass of water.
The two groups were tested after the drinks to measure the student’s ability to come up with new ideas around a central topic and to think in novel and different ways.
At the end of two test sessions tea drinkers outscored the group who had been drinking water.
The obvious answer to the question "what causes the beverage to supply this advantage?" is that black tea contains caffeine and theanine, compounds that increase cognition and improve general brain function.
Caffeine and theanine take time to affect the drinker, plus the small cups consumed by an average person doesn’t contain enough of either compounds to have had much of an effect. As such, the research team pointed to another property of tea that could be at work here which is, its ability to set a mood. The tea drinking students, they claim, were in a positive mood from the experience of sipping.
Furthermore, the report stated that “This work contributes to understanding the function of tea on creativity and offers a new way to scrutinize the relationship between food and beverage consumption and the improvement of human cognition.”
However, the pool of people tested at just 50 is actually very low to significantly tell of the effects of tea on the general population. It will be fascinating what the findings will tell if more people were to partake in the experiment.
