CUT YOUR CANCER RISKSeveral polyphenols - the potent antioxidants green tea's famous for - seem to help keep cancer cells from gaining a foothold in the body, by discouraging their growth and then squelching the creation of new blood vessels that tumors need to thrive. Study after study has found that people who regularly drink green tea reduce their risk of breast, stomach, esophagus, colon, and/or prostate cancer.
SOOTHE YOUR SKIN Got a cut, scrape, or bite, and a little leftover green tea? Soak a cotton pad in it. The tea is a natural antiseptic that relieves itching and swelling. Try it on inflamed breakouts and blemishes, sunburns, even puffy eyelids. And that's not all. In the lab, green tea helps block sun-triggered skin cancer, whether you drink it or apply it directly to the skin - which is why you're seeing green tea in more and more sunscreens and moisturizers.
STEADY YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE
Having healthy blood pressure - meaning below 120/80 - is one thing. Keeping it that way is quite another. But people who sip just half a cup a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension than non-drinkers. Credit goes to the polyphenols again (especially one known as ECGC). They help keep blood vessels from contracting and raising blood pressure.
PROTECT YOUR MEMORY, OR YOUR MOM'SGreen tea may also keep the brain from turning fuzzy. Getting-up-there adults who drink at least two cups a day are half as likely to develop cognitive problems as those who drink less. Why? It appears that the tea's big dose of antioxidants fights the free-radical damage to brain nerves seen in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
STAY YOUNG
The younger and healthier your arteries are, the younger and healthier you are. So fight plaque build-up in your blood vessels, which ups the risk of heart disease and stroke, adds years to your biological age (or RealAge), and saps your energy too.
LOSE WEIGHT
Oh yeah, one more thing. Turns out that green tea speeds up your body's calorie-burning process. In the every-little-bit-counts department, this is good news!
1. The International Journal of Obesity mentions green tea as having poly phenols which produce extra heat in the body and burn calories
2. Green tea leaves contain Epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, which may be able to obliterate cancer cells without disturbing neighboring tissues
3. The University of Geneva showed some studies which prove that people on green tea diets are more likely to use up fats than people not using green tea
4. EGCD also helps with escalating the twenty four hour energy outflow of the body
5. Green tea reduces the risk of strokes
6. It also has a favorable effect on hypertension and LDL cholesterol
7. Green tea carries catechin polyphenols which can help delay the reaction of gastric and pancreatic lipases, which are enzymes responsible for converting calories into fats
8. Catechin also destroys the bacteria which can cause food poisoning. It also eradicates the toxins produced by these bacteria
9. Catechin may be able to stop cancer cells from further growth
10. Green tea contains caffeine in moderate quantity, which works as an appetite suppressant (high quantities of caffeine, for example in coffee, can cause medical problems including hyper tension and insomnia)
11. Green tea is also good for maintaining good oral hygiene. It contains fluorine, which prevents cavities. It also carries ingredients which suppress plaque formation and bacteria which cause bad breath
12. Polysaccharides and other ingredients in green tea help lower blood sugar
13. Green tea is rich in the anti oxidant Vitamin E, which slows the aging process
14. Cleveland’s Western Reserve conducted a study which shows that having four cups of green tea each day prevents the oncoming of rheumatoid arthritis and can also reduce symptoms in individuals who already have this medical condition
15. For four thousand years, Chinese people have been using green tea for treating headaches and even depression
16. While the other tea leaves are fermented, green tea leaves are steamed and they retrieve their original medicinal capabilities
17. Green tea is also good for your heart
18. It improves the function of your immune system
19. Green tea diets have certain compounds which promote thermogenesis in the body
20. These compounds increase your body’s regular metabolism and also suppress the appetite. This is why it is considered a great diet inclusion
21. It has been discovered that men receiving regular dosages of green tea diet support had a significant four percent raise in their 24-hour energy expenditure
22. They also found that green tea diet aid reduces the respiration quotient. This means that green tea diet aid causes more fats to burn
23. In another study, it was shown that men who were not given green tea diet aid showed only minimal increases in their metabolic rates and almost no reduction in their respiration quotient
24. Some substances in green tea modify how the body utilizes the hormone norepinephrine, which is responsible for escalating metabolism and hence leading to diet aid
25. These ingredients in green tea help increase the speed of fat and calorie burning and optimize diet aid
26. Mega-T Green Tea, another type of green tea, carries a high amount of Green Tea extract which helps curb your appetite.
27. This type of Green Tea also contains chromium
28. Chromium in Mega-T Green Tea helps reduce fats by increasing your metabolic rates. Hence, when you use Mega-T Green Tea, fat-burning happens more rapidly than usual
29. Another useful ingredient of Mega-T Green Tea is the herb Garcinia Cambogia. This herb in Mega-T Green Tea helps you overcome food cravings
30. When you use green tea, you do not need to worry about overeating, because Green Tea lets you know when your stomach has had enough. This basically means that you can always be sure to eat just the right amount of food. And we all know that lesser food intake means lesser fats storage in the body
31. Taking fewer calories usually means you have lower energy levels. This means you won’t have any energy to do your weight loss exercises. But green tea contains guarana, which is a well known energy booster
