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Monday, May 18, 2009

25 Benefits of Green Tea !


The benefits of green tea are so numerous that I had to tell you about all 25 benefits of green tea


1. Green Tea and Cancer 
It reduces the risk of cancer. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer.

2.Heart Disease 
Can help prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells.

3.Anti-Aging 
Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight against free radicals. What this means it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity.

4. Green Tea and Weight Loss 
Helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to 7 pounds in one year.

5. Skin 
Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. It also helps fight against skin cancer.

6. Green Tea and Arthritis 
Can help prevent and reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Green tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage.

7. Bones 
The very key to this is high fluoride content found in green tea. It helps keep your bones strong. If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bone density.

8. Cholesterol 
Can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, by reducing bad cholesterol level.

9. Green Tea and Obesity 
Prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and it it is unlikely you'll be obese.

10. Green Tea and Diabetes 
Improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Alzheimer's 
Helps boost your memory. And although there's no cure for Alzheimer's, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer's.

12. Green Tea and Parkinson's 
Antioxidants in it helps prevent against cell damage in the brain, which could cause Parkinson's. People drinking it also are less likely to progress with Parkinson's.

13. Liver Disease 
Helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that it destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.

14. High Blood Pressure 
Helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking it helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.

15. Food Poisoning 
Catechin found in it can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar 
Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides in it help lower your blood sugar level.

17. Immunity 
Polyphenols and flavenoids found in it help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.

18. old and Flu 
Prevents you from getting a cold or flu. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.

19. Green Tea and Asthma 
Theophylline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

20.Ear Infection 
Helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cotton ball in it and clean the infected ear.

21. Herpes 
Increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First it compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.

22. Green Tea and Tooth Decay 
Destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental diseases.It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.

23. Stress 
L-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in it, can help relieve stress and anxiety

24. Allergies 
EGCG found in it relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking it.

25. Green Tea and HIV 
Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in it can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells. What this means is that it can help stop the HIV virus from spreading.

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