Common balck & green tea varieties are 25%~30% flavonoids, and these flavonoids have demontrated heart protective effects. A forty year study of Japanese men found that those who drank more green tea had significantly lower cholosterol and triglycerides compared with men who drank less green tea. Tea flavonoids also show huge promise as cancer preventives.

 In a study from Rutger university, researchers found that drinking black or green tea protects against skin cancer caused by ultraliolet (UV) light and hazardous chemicals. In mice that were given skin cancers through UV or chemical exposure, those that drank black tea had 93% less tumors than those taht drank water. Those that drank green tea had 88% fewer tumors than the water drinkers. Decaffeinated tea had slightly less antitumor power.

• Green tea flavonoids inhibit cancinogen activation–the transformation of relatively harmless substances into carcinogens once they are in the body.

   

• Tea flavonoids stimulate the action of detoxifying enzymes in the livern including the p450 detoxification system–an action that helps move carcinogens out of the body becore they have a chance to alter DNA activity.

   

• In cancerous cells, the tumor suppressor gene is generally shut off. Green and black tea supplements have been found to turn this gene back on.

   

• Tea polyphenols are natural inhibitors of angiogenesis, the process whereby tumors establish their own circulatory systems.

   

• Tea also helps to flush excess heavy metals such as mercury, lead, and iron out of body, which in turn reduces free-radical stress.

Dao is untranslatable but it is best rendered as the ‘way’ or ‘way of life’.  To live in harmony with the Dao was regarded as essential if the human being was to realise her full potential during her time on Earth. 

Qi Bo continued:

“There was temperance in eating and drinking.  Their hours of rising and retiring were regular and not disorderly and wild.  By these means the ancients kept their bodies united with their souls, so as to fulfil their allotted span completely, measuring unto a hundred years before they passed away.  Nowadays people are not like this; they use wine as beverage and they adopt recklessness as usual behaviour.  They enter the chamber of love in an intoxicated condition; their passions exhaust their vital forces … they do not know how to find contentment within themselves; they are not skilled in the control of their spirits … For these reasons they reach only one half of the hundred years and then they degenerate.”

A definition from Wikipedia states that:

“The term lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.

In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual’s attitudes, values or worldview. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not all aspects of a lifestyle are entirely voluntaristic. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.

The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society. For example, “green lifestyle” means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller carbon footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities. Some commentators argue that, in Modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.”

So lifestyle is not only a bundle of behaviours, but also a reflection of our blief systems–our concept about who we are, what is our relationship with our society and with our environment (nature), etc. It’s our belief system which shape our behavoiur. Lifestyle influences every aspect of our life, lincludeing our health, our well-being, our social relationship etc.