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Drink Tea to Tell Cancer 'Hit the Road' Become a tea lover with a purpose and help your body defend itself against cancer. Learn to embrace tea in all its varieties -- green, white, black, pu-erh, herbal and more -- as both a mental and physical experience to protect your health. Discover the history, growing information and health implications of each variety, as well as uniquely delicious methods to boost your intake with serving suggestions, food pairings and recipes that highlight the benefits of tea. After her own battle with cancer, Maria Uspenski extensively researched tea and discovered hundreds of studies that showed how powerful a five-cup-a-day (1.2 L) steeping habit could be. Tea is the most studied anti-cancer plant, with over 5,000 medical studies published on its health benefits over the past 10 years. By breaking down how tea works with your body's defenses against cancer in a lighthearted tone, Maria's serious research is approachable and relatable for anyone who is battling the disease or for family and friends of those fighting cancer. Start harnessing the wellness-promoting properties of tea and see your life change with an easy-to-follow three-week plan that gets tea polyphenols streaming through your system 24/7.
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Maria Uspenski is the founder of The Tea Spot, an artisanal producer of signature blends and single-estate organic teas based in Colorado. At The Tea Spot, Maria works to advance healthier living through the everyday enjoyment of whole leaf tea. An MIT mechanical engineer by trade, she is the innovative force listed on three U.S. patents for Steepware® inventions, which promote the ease of tea preparation. Her love of tea was fostered at an early age by her Russian family, and later, as an undergraduate student in Paris, she was introduced to many more varieties than traditional black teas. Maria began to discover the health benefits of tea during stints as a ballet dancer and athlete, but it was after enduring her own experience and recovery from cancer that she became passionate about sharing her knowledge of the health benefits of consuming tea. She is well-versed in the research and practice of consuming tea for cancer wellness, as well as the expectations and limitations of tea as a healthy beverage. Maria's message is simple and powerful - tea in its freshest form is sustainable and renders exceptional flavor and unmatched health benefits. She has been featured in the Huffington Post and on television interviews for her success as a social entrepreneur and certified tea and fitness nutrition expert. Maria has been a regular contributor to blogs for The Denver Post, T-Ching and The Tea Spot, and is called on to lecture about the health benefits of tea at universities and conferences nationwide. The Tea Spot donates ten percent of all sales in-kind to cancer and community wellness. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
