| The Benefits of Green Tea |
| Written by Chalo Balauri | |
| Tuesday, 22 December 2009 | |
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Over the recent years, we have re-discovered a lot of treatments and herbs that have great properties and benefits for our health and well-being, one of these is green tea, a drink that has been used for thousands of year in China and Japan.
Over the recent years, we have re-discovered a lot of treatments and herbs that have great properties and benefits for our health and well-being, one of these is green tea, a drink that has been used for thousands of year in China and Japan. Integrating green tea into your life can be done in many ways. I started drinking green tea as iced tea without sugar, but then winter came and I started to drink it hot with sugar. On some days if I am not going to drink green tea I take it in the form of pills. Green tea benefits have been mainly linked to weight loss. There have been some studies over the last decade that confirm its action as a weight loss promoter. Men and women who took green tea lost more weight than people with no green tea or placebo drinks A much more interesting benefit of green tea is the one relating to cancer prevention. Green tea is rich in antioxidants called catechins. These help eliminating cancer cells, and the best of all is that get rid of cancerous cells without making any damage to healthy tissue. Green tea has already been employed greatly in many skin care products which include it in their formula. This type of tea has proven useful to retard the effects of exposure to sun and aging. Again it helps preventing skin cancer by eliminating free radicals. Why isn't green tea widely used then? This is a question that many people like me, who have been witness of the goods of green tea don't understand. I think it has to do mainly on how "modern science" looks down a lot of treatments based on herbs or considered alternative. Where can you get green tea? I find green tea on my local grocery store, they have a section for Chinese stuff, however not all grocery stores have that. If that is your case you can also buy it online. The Article Author: Those are just some of the benefits of green tea. Find out more about how your health can be improved by drinking green tea. |
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