Green Tea and Your Health

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 todayyou'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.

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2. Green Tea and Heart Disease



Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol.

Even after the heart attackit prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells.

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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.

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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.

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5. Green Tea and Skin



Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicalswhich 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 daythis will help you preserve your bone density.

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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 cholesterolby reducing bad cholesterol level.

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9. Green Tea and Obesity



Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells.

If you are on a healthy dietexercise regularly and drink green teait is unlikely you'll be obese.

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10. Green Tea and Diabetes



Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolismsprevents sharp increases in blood sugar leveland 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'sit helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brainwhich leads to Alzheimer's.

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12. Green Tea and Parkinson's



Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brainwhich could cause Parkinson's. People drinking green tea also are less likely 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 fatty livers.

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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 repressing angiotensinwhich 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 food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

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16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar



Blood sugar tends to increase with agebut polyphenols and polysaccharides 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 immune systemmaking 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 the bronchial tubesreducing the severity of asthma.

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20. Green Tea and Ear Infection



Green tea helps with ear infection problem.

For natural ear cleaningsoak a cotton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.

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21. Green Tea and Herpes



Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes.

First green tea compress is appliedand then let the skin dry before the 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-theaninewhich is a kind of amino acids in green teacan help relieve stress and anxiety.

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24. Green Tea and Allergies



EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies.

Soif you have allergiesyou should really consider drinking green tea.

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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.

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