Loosing Weight Drinking Green Tea and Other Health Benefits!
Loosing Weight Drinking Green Tea and Other Health Benefits!
By Viola Woolcott
Green Tea has been used as a medicine in China for at least 4,000 years. Today in Asia and the West, scientific research has provided hard evidence that no other drink or food to have as many health benefits as Green Tea. It has been used to treat everything from headaches to depression.
It has also been indicated that drinking Green Tea lowers cholesterol levels and restricts the abnormal formation of blood clots. This adds to the importance considering that thrombosis (formation of abnormal blood clots) is the main cause for strokes and heart attacks.
Green Tea is rich in catechin polyphenols, especially epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and EGCG being such a powerful anti-oxidant, it inhibits the growth of cancer cells as well as killing cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.
Some medical conditions in which drinking green tea is supposed to be helpful:
>> Impaired immune function
>> Rheumatoid arthritis
>> High cholesterol levels
>> Infection
>> Cancer – i.e. bladder, colon, lung, oesophageal, liver, pancreas, prostate, rectum, and stomach
>> Arthritis - anti-inflammatory and preventing effects
Green Tea has also shown promising results in protecting your teeth. It promotes oral health and studies have demonstrated how the tea fights off bacteria that cause cavities in your teeth as it contains NATURAL fluoride.
Loosing weight drinking Green Tea! It has fat-burning properties.
Green Tea can improve your Health!
Filed under: Health and Diet on December 1st, 2007
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