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根据短文内容，从下框的A – F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。

Americans arefar more knowledgeable about drinks than they were 20 years ago．Witness the Starbucksrevolution and you’ll know where the trend goes．Now, encouraged by recent studies suggesting thatit can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease and slow the aging process, teais enjoying a similar change．Enough fashionable tea houses are springing up to make even longtimecoffee drinkers consider switching drinks．

Tea is availablein more places than ever．The Tea Association of the United States reports that from 1990 to1999, annual sales of the drink grew to $4．6 billion from $1．8 billion．“Green tea is seen by consumers as a ‘functional food’” — deliveringhealth benefits beyond food itself, says Vierhile．

Recentlypublished studies point out that only teas that come from the leaves of theplant Camellia sinensis have been shown to contain health benefits．Other herbal teas may tastegood, yet they do little more than warm up the drinker．But for Camellia sinensis, theevidence is powerful．In a 1998 study, Harvard University researchers found that drinkingone cup of black tea a day lowered the risk of heart attack by as much as 44percent compared with non-tea drinkers, and other studies have suggested thatthe antioxidants （抗氧化剂） in these so-called real teas can also prevent cancer．

   Onesuch antioxidant in green tea is ECGC, a compound 20 times as powerful asvitamin E and 200 times as powerful as vitamin C．“When people ask me for something good and cheapthey can do to reduce their cancer risk, I tell them to drink real tea,” saysMitchell Gaynor, director of medical oncology at New York City’s Strang-CornellCancer Prevention Center．

Among thoseinspired to become a green-tea drinker is Tess Ghilaga, a New York writer whotook it up after seeking advice from a nutritionist six years ago．“I’ve never been a coffeedrinker,” says Ghilaga, 33．“She told me to start drinking green tea for the antioxidant qualities．” Now Ghilaga and her husband habituallymake tea — they order theirs from InPursuitofTea．com, an Internet tea company．And although tea contains abouthalf the amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee, “you still get such a kick fromit,” says Ghilaga．

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