Yes, but no milk or sugar

Keep drinking tea. A team at Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles report in the journal Circulation that the anti-oxidant epigallocatechin-3-gallate or EGCG found in green tea inhibits new deposits of arterial plaque. The team tested it on mice fed a high-cholesterol diet. Last year US chemists found compounds in tea that might ward off skin cancers, and tests carried out by Harvard doctors showed that five cups of black tea a day improved the immune system. On Tuesday researchers told the American Society for Microbiology meeting in New Orleans that extract of white tea - a rare Chinese variety - could retard staphylococcus and streptococcus infections, as well as pneumonia and dental caries.