Green Tea – What Is So Good About It?

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Green Tea What Is So Good About It?
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• Unless youre some kind of hermit who has been
  living in an underground cave for the past decade
  or two, you cant fail to have heard at least
  some of the hype surrounding Green Tea.
  Traditionally, green tea has been used in Chinese
  medicine to treat many different types of
  ailments, from physical to mental, and for many
  centuries. Its leaves are said to contain more
  antioxidants than some other teas, such as
  vitamin B, potassium and caffeine to name but a
  few.

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• But exactly what can all of these antioxidants
  help us with how can drinking green tea improve
  our health? There are many ways in which green
  tea is said to make us healthier, and listed
  below are the top 5
• 1. Protecting us against heart disease
• Green tea has been shown to be as effective as
  aspirin, for inhibiting the abnormal formation of
  blood clots that are the main cause of heart
  attacks and strokes. Its antioxidant properties
  also lower LDL (low density lipoprotein), which
  is the type of cholesterol we dont want building
  up in our arteries.

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• 2. Lowering blood pressure
• ACE, or angiotension-converting enzyme, is
  secreted by the kidneys and contributes towards
  high blood pressure green tea naturally inhibits
  ACE and has been proven to lower the blood
  pressure in both animals and humans who have
  ingested extracts of the tea.

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• 3. Helping to burn fat
• We all know that our weight can be directly
  linked to our metabolic rate the quicker our
  metabolism, the quicker we burn off calories and
  the less weight we are likely to gain. Green tea
  has been proven to speed up the metabolic rate
  due to its antioxidant properties, which in turn
  helps the liver to perform more efficiently.
• Studies have shown that in groups of overweight
  men, drinking green tea 3 times a day and making
  no other changes to their lifestyle, saw them
  burning 200 calories more a day than they would
  otherwise have done. The men in the study also
  reported feeling more energetic as a result.

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• 4. Protecting us against cancer
• Many studies have been carried out to research
  green tea and its cancer fighting properties, and
  some of these have shown that extracts of green
  tea can prevent cancer cells from growing. There
  are polyphenols and catechins in green tea
  which scientists popularly believe give the tea
  its antioxidant properties, but it is widely
  agreed that many more human studies need to be
  conducted before any definitive proof of green
  tea preventing cancer, can be gained.

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• 5. Reducing or preventing arthritis
• The antioxidants present in green tea, inhibit
  the Cox-2 gene which is proven to trigger
  inflammation of the joints, causing rheumatoid
  arthritis. The green tea, in this case, works in
  much the same way as anti-inflammatory drugs
  might.
• Again, research has been carried out to
  investigate this further, and have shown that
  green tea may prevent, or at least reduce the
  severity, of some of the symptoms of rheumatoid
  arthritis.

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