Starting Sunday, October 29 @ 11:59 PM, until Sunday, November 05 11:59 PM  your challenge is to ...

Drink A Cup of Tea



In this week's challenge you must Drink A Cup of Tea Every day. No matter what season, tea can be a tasty beverage since it can be served iced or hot. But its benefits go far beyond refreshment. There is plenty of research showing that drinking tea can actually improve your health.

Health Benefits of Drinking Tea
  • Teas can help prevent cancer, heart disease, and diabetes
  • Tea contains antioxidants
  • Drinking tea encourages weight loss and lowers cholesterol
  • Tea is hydrating to the body despite the caffeine
  • Tea improves mental performance and alertness
  • Tea can help protect your bones
  • Tea can boost your immune system

    Here are some Teas and their benefits to help you with this weeks challenge!


    Ginger Tea: Helps digest our food and helps control problems like nausea. Also has anti-inflammatory properties.


    Peppermint Tea: Strengthens our immune system and gives our body protection against mild coughs, mild asthma, and clearing of congestion, mild aches and chronic pain.


    Lavender Tea: Helps reduce respiratory issues, cough, asthma, bronchitis and body temperature and is used for treating fever. It helps heal ulcers, sores, cuts and wounds.

    Suggested Reading:
    9 Surprising Health Benefits of Drinking Tea - Learn more here.
    How A Daily Cup of Tea May Improve Your Health - Learn more here.
    13 Reasons Tea Is Good For You - Learn more here.

  • This challenge was closed on 11/5/2017


    4  members have accepted this challenge.
    2  members have completed this challenge.

    Congratulations to these participants for completing the challenge. 
    Hemant v. V Gandhi 
    Naresh K Chadha 

    The Weekly Health Challenge is a self-audited program designed to motivate the JCSC Wellness participants in reducing BMI on a weekly basis.

    How it works:
    1. Each week there will be a new health challenge. You can accept the challenge by accepting the pledge for each challenge. You can only accept a challenge from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Tuesday.

    2. At the end of the week, you can declare if you have completed the challenge. You can only mark a challenge as completed from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Tuesday.

    3. Every week, the participants that complete the challenge will be recognized on this page.


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