Longtime tea-drinking may strength bones, reserchers have found.
研究指出，長期飲用茶，可以增強骨質。
The benefits occurred in people who drank an average of nearly two cups daily of black, green or oolong tea for at least six years, said the researchers from National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan.
位於台南的成功大學醫院研究員指出，喝茶的好處出現在平均一天兩杯黑茶，綠茶（如烏龍），持續六年以上的人們身上。
Their results are published in the May 18 (2002) edition of the Tucson-based Archives of Internal Medicine.
這個研究結果發表在 2002 年的 Tucson-based Archives of Internal Medicine.
The findings could have broad public-health implications, because fractures associated with bone-thinning osteoporosis and low bone density are a global problem expected to worsen with the predicted increase in the number of older people worldwide.
此研究結果對大眾的健康很有影響，因為骨折等因為老年骨質疏鬆引起的疾病是全球性的，而且因著人口老化的問題而更加嚴重。