The Importance of Green Tea

G reen tea is worldwide adjourned as a healthy drink. The nutrient of which it is made up of makes it so different and healthy from the other drinks and teas available in the market. Its nutrients help this tea in fighting against cancerous cells, and protecting you from almost every type of disease. This drink is healthier any day from those others available on the market.

The antioxidants EGCG is much more effective than vitamin c and is more effective than the compound Reversterol. Its importance is far more than just being a healthy drink. It fights against the diseases, and controls your sugar and cholesterol levels.

It inhibits aging there by helping you staying younger for a lot longer. It decreases your chances of getting cancer. It helps you shed weight naturally so you do not need to work so hard on physical exercises.

It smooths your skin, protects it from harmful rays and protects you from getting any skin related problems. It helps you in lowering the visibility of wrinkles on your face while also protecting you from sun burns.

It also supports the body in expelling that waste and toxins in your body. It allows your body to alter the rate of metabolism, therefore burning fat faster. It also maintains the intake of calories in your body.

Green tea lowers your chances of acquiring any cardiovascular disease. It also inhibits hypertension. It protects your cells from any serious injury. It strengthens your immunity system there by helping you stay far away from any kind of disease.

This tea with its long advantages is the world's 2nd most consumed drink after water. It is a natural healer. Therefore because of its medical and herbal advantages and benefits, people are encouraged to make it a part of their daily diet.

It is also noticed that it relieves a person from body itching, blemishes and any kind of swelling. The exact dosage of this green tea is not yet decided by doctors but still 2-4 cups of green tea per day can help you in achieving higher standards of health.

The antioxidants it possesses are its chief producers of all these benefits to human beings. But one should keep something's in mind. Before starting drinking green tea one should always consult their doctor or their physician. If you are allergic or deficient of some thing, this drink may not suit you.




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Does Green Tea Help You Lose Weight?

E ven a basic search of scientific publications brings back a huge array of results for green tea and its weight loss properties. Wading through all of this there's some interesting patterns in the findings.

Green tea does appear to increase the level of fat oxidation in the human body more than can be explained by the caffeine content alone. In fact the caffeine content of green tea is quite low and yet its fat oxidation properties are higher than those of black tea which contains more caffeine. This property of green tea to burn fat in people is called thermogenesis and it means your body is expending more energy. More energy expenditure means weight loss.

Due to the complex mix of compounds in green tea its been very difficult to determine exactly what particular one is responsible for the fat burning effects. Its been narrowed down to a group of compounds known as phytochemicals. These are a type of plant-based chemical that provide many positive benefits to the human body. The studies into their cancer fighting properties are almost as numerous as those for weight loss.

Now although caffeine was ruled out as the cause of any weight loss in test subjects it has been found to boost the already potent thermogenic ability of green tea.

Here's where a secret of weight control using tea reveals itself. Green tea actually contains very low doses of caffeine so to get an extra boost of caffeine you should drink both green and black tea throughout the day. That way you're getting the higher levels of caffeine from the black tea but the high levels of green tea's phytochemicals boosting your metabolism too. You don't need to go to the extent of ruining your tea by mixing the two but drinking a black tea and green tea within 2 - 3 hours of each other will have a synergistic effect and increase the fat burning potential.

If you still have doubts about green teas weight loss potential then let me give you one final example. If you visit the Google Scholar search engine and do a search for green tea and weight loss then look at the results. You'll see over 60,000 results with the top 10 results all being scientific papers in respected journals that all conclude green teas fat burning properties. Can't get much more proof than that!

(Doug Bromley)


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Chinese Green Tea Reduces Risk of Ischemic Stroke

R esearchers with Curtin University of Technology, Australia have found that long term consumption of green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of ischemic stroke.

Published May 28 in Stroke, the study looked at the green tea consumption of patients who had suffered a stroke in Southern China.

A total of 374 patients with incident ischemic stroke and 464 control subjects (mean age, 69 years) were recruited from 3 hospitals in Foshan. Information on frequency and duration of tea drinking, quantity of dried tea leaves, and types of tea consumed, together with habitual diet and lifestyle characteristics, was obtained from participants using a validated and reliable questionnaire. Logistic regression analyses were performed for tea consumption variables accounting for confounders that affect the ischemic stroke risk.

A significant decrease in ischemic stroke risk was observed for drinking at least one cup of tea weekly when compared with infrequent or nondrinkers, the risk reduction being largest by drinking one to two cups of green or oolong tea daily. Significant inverse dose–response relationships were also found for years of drinking and the amount of dried tea leaves brewed.

Scientists from the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia were involved in the study and they noted that although experimental studies have suggested that tea consumption may reduce the risk of ischemic stroke, available epidemiological evidence is equivocal, mainly due to the lack of accurate measurements on tea exposure. This study, hopefully, makes up for the lacuna and establishes the efficacy of the green tea.
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