Brewing Tea Can Remove Significant Amount of Toxic Metals from Water, Study Finds

brewing tea.Photo:Getty Getty Brewing tea can remove a significant amount of toxic heavy metals from drinking water, according to a new study.The study – published Feb. 24 in the journalACS Food Science & Technology—analyzed how different types of tea, tea bags and brewing methods affect heavy metal adsorption. These included “true” teas such as black, green, oolong and white, as well as chamomile and rooibos teas.Researchers also looked at the differences between loose-leaf and commercially bagged tea.

Brian Austin Green Reacts to Ex Megan Fox's Split from Machine Gun Kelly: 'Grow Up. She's Pregnant'

Brian Austin Greenis reacting toMegan FoxandMachine Gun Kelly’smost recent split. On Thursday, Dec. 12,TMZpublished a video of Green, 51, speaking with one of its reporters outside a Starbucks in Calabasa, Calif., where he expressed that he was surprised to learn that hisex-wife, 38, and Kelly, 34, had ended their on-and-off-again romance just weeks after they announcedthey’re expecting their first child together. “I didn’t even know. No. I had no idea,” Green said when asked about the breakup.

Brian Austin Green Says His Whole Family Is 'Super Excited' to Welcome Pregnant Megan Fox's New Baby: 'Can't Wait' (Exclusive)

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green at the PUBG Mobile’s #FIGHT4THEAMAZON Event on December 09, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Brian Austin Greencan’t wait forMegan Fox’slittle one to join their blended family. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Brian Austin Green and family.Brian Austin Green/Instagram

Brian Baumgartner SaysThe Office's First Christmas Episode 'Launched the Success of the Show'

The cast of ‘The Office’ in 2005.Photo:NBCUniversal via Getty NBCUniversal via Getty The success ofThe Officewas something of a Christmas miracle — at least according toBrian Baumgartner. The actor and author ofThe Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflinjoined fellowOfficealumniJenna FischerandAngela Kinseyon a special holiday bonus episode of their podcastOffice Ladiesthis week to share memories of the hit NBC sitcom’s yuletide episodes. Baumgartner, who played lovable doofus Kevin Malone on the NBC sitcom from 2005 to 2013, said that his memories of the show’s holiday episodes have a lot to do with what was going on “outside” of the world ofThe Office.

Brian Cox Feels the Oscars Are 'Absolute Nonsense' for This Reason: 'A Fallacy, Quite Honestly'

Brian Cox on Jan. 15, 2024.Photo:Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Brian Coxhas a bone to pick with the Oscars.The actor, who lends his voice to the new filmThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, reflected on his career in an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, at one point sharing why he thinks the Academy Awards are “nonsense.““The Oscars are absolute nonsense because everything that’s judged in the Oscars, it’s not a year’s work.