True Health Project

For thousand of years, green tea have been enjoyed by people from China and Japan. Among the first countries that cultivated tea is India and China. In traditional Chinese and Indian medicine, practitioners used green tea as a stimulant, diuretic to promote the excretion of urine, astringent to control bleeding and help heal wounds and to improve heart health. Other traditional uses of green tea include treating flatulence or gas, regulating body temperature and blood sugar, promoting digestion, and improving mental processes.

As years go by, it has gained popularity in the West. Personally, I don’t like green tea’s taste, but after learning that there are varied ways to drink it, it’s not so bad after all. In addition to that, it has many health benefits compared to black tea. Below are the numerous benefits from drinking green tea:

1. Green tea is made from unfermented leaves, such that it contains anti-oxidants that helps to prevent cancer. Antioxidants are substances that engulf free radicals. These free radicals are damaging compounds in the body that alter cells, tamper with one of your genetic material or DNA, and even cause cell death. Research evidence shows that green tea included in your everyday diet can help reduce esophageal, stomach, bladder, pancreas, colon and rectum cancer up to 60 per cent.
2. It containts the antioxidant known as “epigallocatechin gallate” which is 100 more times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times more effective than vitamin E at protecting cells from harmful influence. It does not only inhibit the growth of new cancer cells but kills some of the existing cancer cells as well, without harming the healthy ones.
3. It explains why tea-drinkers can eat almost twice the foods containing cholesterol as those who don’t drink green tea, but still have an equal cholesterol count. Additionally, it helps reduce hypertension by repressing angiontension II which causes the blood vessels to constrict which is the cause of high blood pressure. With that in combination with low cholesterol count, green tea further arrests the formation of blod clots which causes thrombosis. Bear in mind that thrombosis is one of the main causes of your strokes or heart attacks.
4. Green tea contains two main antioxidants namely, polyphenols and polysaccharideswhich are especially effective in lowering blood sugar in type two diabetes. It destroys bacteria that causes bad breath thus, suppressing the process of plaque formation.
5. Destroys free radicals that cause aging.
6. Because of its high concentration of polyphenols and flavenoids, it boosts your immune system.
7. Green tea possess antibacterial and antiviral properties which supports the result of recent studies showing that green tea inhibits the spread of disease, speeding up recovery from cold and flu. Furthermore, it also destroys food poisoning bacterial strains including clostridium, botulus and staphylococcus hence making it a good treatment for diarrhea.
8. In conjunction with diarrhea, it helps maintain your body’s fluid balance and relieves your fatigue and stresses caused by dehydration.
9. It blocks the main receptor-producing allergies thus, preventing your allergic reactions.

10.  As part of your everyday diet, it stimulates metabolism and speeds up the burning process of calories.

Though all the types of tea came from the one same plant, they have different benefits. This is attributed to the fact that the length of fermentation and oxidation process is where the containment of the medical benefits depend on. The longer tea leaves are undergo the process of oxidation, the more benefits that will be lost from it.

Although there are many ready-to-drink teas are out in the market, drinking your tea freshly brewed is still the  best way to preserve and acquire all the disease-fighting nutrients it has.

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