Green Tea

[Tom_K]

Green tea has increasingly become a very popular drink worldwide because of its immensely powerful health benefits. It is extraordinarily amazing what green tea can do for your health.And if you’re not drinking 3 to 4 cups of green tea today, you’re definitely NOT doing your health a big favor.

Here Are The 25 Reasons Why You Should Start Drinking Green Tea Right Now:

1. Green Tea and Cancer
Green tea helps reduce 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. Green Tea and Heart Disease
Green tea helps 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. Green Tea and 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
Green tea 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. Green Tea and Skin
Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.

6. Green Tea and Arthritis
Green tea 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. Green Tea and 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. Green Tea and Cholesterol
Green tea 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
Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you’ll be obese.

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

11. Green Tea and Alzheimer’s
Green tea 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 green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain, which could cause Parkinson’s. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson’s.

13. Green Tea and Liver Disease
Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.

14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure
Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.

15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning
Catechin found in green tea 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 green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

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

18. Green Tea and Cold and Flu
Green tea 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. Green Tea and Ear Infection
Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cotton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.

21. Green Tea and Herpes
Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.

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

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

24. Green Tea and Allergies
EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea.

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

[KatNyerHAT]

I absolutely love Green Tea.  Was raised on it and it was the only tea my mother ever drank...  Green tea w/brown rice brewed with it is phenomenal!!! 

Thanks for the info, Tom.

[19Dragon52]

(((Tom)))

Thank You ever so much for listing these benefits of drinking green tea and the suggested amount to consume.  You are always so good at keeping us up with what's going on out in our world.

(((Kat)))

I am going to assume the brown rice is not boiled before the brewing unless you let me know otherwise.    Is it an addition for the flavor?

Happy Day.....

[MissyMouse]

Does this stuff have caffiene in it?  Yeah, I'm thinking about doing this too LOL.

Mouse

[beingbecky]

Green tea is caffinated, more so than coffee. It does come in a decaf form. I don't know what they do to it to make it that way?

becky
 

[19Dragon52]

I just bought some Naturally Decaffinated Green Tea last night.  I am sure hoping that means there were no chemicals used for the decaffinating process.

xoxoxo's.....

 

[KatNyerHAT]

Hi Joyce, 

The tea I make has the brown rice already in it.  I also get the Japanese green tea leaves.  I don't know what the process is to decaffinate it either but I don't drink the decaf tea (bad kat).

Just got back from my endocrinologist and she's not going to put me on diabetes meds as long as I continue to loss weight and up the exercise to 6 days a week to lower my blood sugar.  She's pushing raspberries on me.  On a daily basis I eat a handful of blueberries with my cereal.  She says the raspberries are lower in natural sugar and much more beneficial.

How's your tea, Joyce? 

Big hugs,
Kat

[19Dragon52]

(((Hey Kat!)))

Great news on not having to take any diabetic meds!  If your looking for a variety in the "exercise" dept.  I have my 60 lb. Xena that will walk you!...lol  She's a "naughty girl"...pulls like a tractor!  Want to get her a different walking collar so she's not such a smart-*ss!

Haven't brewed my own green tea, yet but they had it at the Bible Study last night.  Tasted Great...more refreshing than coffee for that time of day.  I think I'll be ordering some in bulk (leaves) when I put in another order for my vitamins.  So for now it's the "tea bag" for me.

Have A Nice Day!
xoxoxo's.....

[MissyMouse]

Kat,

Awesome news on the blood sugar issues! 

Mouse

[countrygirl]

I've known for some time about many of the benefits of green tea, but this list is amazing! Not only to take internally, but as a topical agent. And speaking of "topical", there's a topical interferon for herpes ??!! First I've heard of it......I thought it was always injected. Live and learn.......

Sad thing is, I can't stand the taste of green tea...always tasted like something that was scooped out of an aquarium tank....no matter what the brand. Not much of a hot tea lover overall though. But I DO like cold tea, so I brew a pot, cool it, then mix it with either a blueberry or pomegranate juice and drink (and enjoy!) it now...loads of it!

Came across a blend called "To Life" at a tea store in Minneapolis...white, green and rooibos with a hint of Jasmine Pearls that is divine! Makes me feel like I'm sitting under a basswood tree in June taking in the scent of the blossoms......REALLY nice!

 

[KatNyerHAT]

Hi Country Girl,

I was just thinking blend, as I was reading your post.  Green is not going to be everyone's cup of tea!     My granddaughter can't stand the taste of plain green.  Instead her preference is Mango Green and sweetened.  If I wasn't raised on it, I wouldn't touch the stuff either... it's just what I'm accustomed to.   "To Life" sounds yummy..   I've got tons of Adagio tea blends and white tangerine's one of my favorites.  Some of the teas I mix myself.   Pumpkin Spice is great this time of year... 

Sorry for going off topic... this was about Green Tea.. 

Big hugs,
Kat

p.s. Joyce, Xena sounds like my friend's dog, Apollo, who is 100 pounds (God love that fat boy!)..  I now know why I have my little 5 pounders.  He stepped on my toe once and I yelped for the first time ever. 

[19Dragon52]

I always blend dfferent teas depending on what I'm in the mood for or what is going to help with a current ailment.  I get some real good concoctions going.  Hubby thinks I'm a witch with all my herbal testing.    I have a large basket full of different healing teas and regular teas.

Love.....