going green.

It is official, I am addicted and willing to spread the love.

Down your caramel mocha, shunt your vanilla latte and bin your stomping, pipping hot espresso and reach out for the trendiest drink on the tree...GREEN TEA.

With Gwenth Paltrow and Oprah Winfrey on the bandwagon drinking herbal infusions has become somewhat as fashionable as a pair of creepers struting up Brick Lane.

Even Led Zeppelin are in on the act, with the tea littering their ridders on their most recent tour. Robert Plant, the lead vocalist of the definitive heavy metal band has even become famous for carrying a mug of hot tea with honey while on tour...how rock 'n' roll can ya get!?

Now here's the science bit, a head nod to Gillian Mckeith if you will...

Green Tea under goes the least amount of processing compared to Black Tea which means more of the good stuff: antioxidants called Polyphends.

These little beauties help/can:

• prevent types of cancer
• prevent heart disease
• prevent type two diabetes
• SPEED UP METABOLISM (Hello New Year's Resolution to fit into those cigarette jeans)
• cognitive improvement

So with tea parties still being the most quaintly fashionable thing you can do with your summer afternoons and tea dresses and floral prints on the menu at lfw, maybe it's time you went green...

B x