Alternative Cures

Green Tea

Posted on July 5, 2007
Category: Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Around one billion Chinese people cannot be wrong!

The Chinese have been drinking green tea for as long as records go back – for possibly around four thousand years. They’ve known for millennia that green tea is an important aspect of daily life. Strange then that it is only recently the West has cottoned on to the importance of this incredible health giving beverage.

The health benefits gained from regularly drinking green tea are numerous thanks to its high proportion of some of the most powerful antioxidants currently known.

For those of you who have been holidaying on Mars for the last few years, antioxidants are special properties contained in certain foods that mop up substances known as free radicals. Free radicals are known to cause damage to cell structure and can lead to many debilitating illnesses, including cancer.

But it is not only the powerful cancer fighting properties of green tea that make it such an important addition to our daily diet.

Green tea also contains anti-bacterial agents that can help fight against the often dangerous bacteria that cause everything from food poisoning to tooth decay caused by the build-up of dental plaque.

Green tea is also an aid to slimming! It contains caffeine just like coffee and black tea, but although the levels are much lower than theses popular beverages, the combination of caffeine and other unique properties work together to boost the body’s metabolism and aid digestion thereby causing the food we eat to be more efficiently digested and less fat to be stored in the body as a result. This, of course leads to slow, safe and natural weight loss making green tea an excellent part of a calorie controlled diet.

What’s more, green tea has also been found to balance cholesterol levels in the bloodstream. That means reducing harmful levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol and boosting healthy levels of HDL, or good cholesterol. This has the additional benefit of reducing the potential for abnormal blood clots to form, which are the cause of problems from thrombosis to strokes and even heart attacks.

Finally, as if all the above weren’t enough, green tea is also a great stress reducer. A calming cup of green tea relaxes you after a hard day’s work, whether it be physical or mental or a combination of both, helping you to wind down and bring all of your body’s functions back to a restful state, helping you to enjoy a more peaceful and relaxed sleep at the end of the day.

So all in all, a daily cup or two of healthy, refreshing green tea could go a long way to ensuring you enjoy good health, longer life and a better quality of life overall.

So cheers! Mine’s a cup of green tea!

Terry Didcott
Alternative Cures

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• Terry Didcott is a qualified hypno- therapist, writer and web designer. What inspired him to create this website was his life changing experience that happened around 1994. Click here to read more:

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