2 Apr 2010

Green Tea - Benefits

Green tea has increasingly become a very popular drink worldwide becauseof 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'redefinitely NOT doing your health a big favor.
*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 Cand 25 times better than vitamin E.
This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to belinked to cancer.

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*2. Green Tea and Heart Disease*
Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the levelof cholesterol.
Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up therecovery of heart cells.

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

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*4. Green Tea and Weight Loss*
Green tea helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat andboosts 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.

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*5. Green Tea and Skin *
Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects offree radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging.
Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.

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*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.

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*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 bonedensity.

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*8. Green Tea and Cholesterol*
Green tea can help lower cholesterol level.
It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, byreducing bad cholesterol level.

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*9. Green Tea and Obesity*
Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fatcells.
If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, itis unlikely you'll be obese.

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

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*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 processof reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer's.

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*12. Green Tea and Parkinson's*
Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in thebrain,
which could cause Parkinson's.. People drinking green tea also are lesslikely to progress with Parkinson's.

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*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 fattylivers.

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

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*15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning*
Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes foodpoisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

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*16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar*
Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols andpolysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

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

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*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.

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

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*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 theinfected ear.

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

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*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.

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

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

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