green tea

**sara ali** · by **sara ali** on Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:16 pm

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 today, you're definitely 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 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 attack, it 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 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 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 cholesterol, by 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 diet, exercise regularly

and drink green tea, it is unlikely you'll be obese.

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*10. Green Tea and Diabetes*

Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases 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 process of 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 the brain,

which 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 angiotensin, 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 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 age, but

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 system, 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 the bronchial 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 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 applied, and 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-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in

green tea, can help relieve 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 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.