When you sip a cuppa tea, your body’s digestive enzymes may destroy as much as 80 percent of tea’s good-for-you catechins. But there’s a way to counteract that.

Add a squeeze of lemon. The citrus works to preserve some of those powerful disease-fighting compounds.

A Squeeze of This, a Dash of That
Researchers suspect that the phytochemicals in citrus work some kind of stabilizing magic on the catechins when they’re in your digestive tract -- they seem to act like bodyguards. Why are catechins worth preserving? Here’s just one of many things a cupful can do for you.

More Reasons to Drink Tea
Fill the pot and grab your mug! We’ve got three good reasons to have tea time every day:

• To help your body incinerate that spare tire. Here’s how drinking green tea is like a tummy tuck.
• To strengthen your immune system. This kind may help fight bugs best.
• To give good face. Here’s how tea gives your skin a youthful glow.