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Two festivals in a single day
Wow! Talk about sensory overload. Here is how this reviewer's day went Saturday: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Japan Festival in Saginaw, at the Japanese Tea House & Garden, where we found a centrally located tree stump with a built-in back rest. Seated there we listened to the awesome Nagata Shachu drum group from Toronto, the elegant Miyabi Japanese harp and bamboo flute ensemble, and the fun-loving (they jumped up and down during one number) White Pine Glee Club of Japanese businessman from Detroit -- all of whom were performing in an area down a slope from that tree stump, on a stage overlooking the water and Ojibway Island. A glance to the left while the music played on revealed Jim Bush and his followers practicing the balletic and peaceful tai chi.
Researchers dip into bag of tea's health benefits
Can imbibing tea affect brain waves -- or perhaps more astonishingly, thwart the development of lung cancer?
A growing number of scientists, including a team on Long Island, theorize that tea is far more complex than most people might think. As a result, they are exploring new ways to uncover the chemical secrets nature has tucked into the leaves of green and black teas.
"People have been drinking tea for 5,000 years, and many cultures have used teas for medicinal purposes for just about that long," said John Foxe, a professor of neuroscience and biology at the Nathan Kline Institute in Orangeburg, N.Y. Foxe, who studies the effects of tea on the brain, presented data at a tea conference Tuesday at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington.
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