Green tea: a very benefit drink

Josefina Ramrez Amparo Ramrez

Origins

Green tea usually is linked to the Asian culture especially the Chinese and Japanese. Most of our green tea comes from China (exports roughly 200 thousand tons a year), Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia (2 thousand tons a year). Green Tea has been consumed in Asia for thousands of years, its been used as a drink and as medicine throughout Southeast Asia.

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drink have a lot of benefits that makes it very popular actually. From headaches to depression, the chinese use this herb to cure a lot of things that well show you!

Benefits in health.

Tea is, after water, the most consumed beverage on the planet. Green tea has a proven effect on the condition of a human, but its always hard to prove such effects. . Weight Loss is not an effect that can be directly linked to the consumption of green tea, but rather weight loss beneficial effects have been shown.

There is a lot of benefits of the green tea in the health of the people.:
Tea in general helps regulate body temperature. Green tea is used to speed up the healing provess of open wounds and generally balance the body.

Benefits in health.
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contain polyphenols which act as antioxidants and exhibit numerous biochemical activities. Tea polyphenols consist mostly of catechins, the most powerful of which is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) which is found only in green tea. *Catechins: secondary plant metabolites which appear to be anticancerous.

Green Tea and the cancer: does it help?

In 1994 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published the results of an epidemiological study indicating that drinking green tea reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly sixty percent. University of Purdue researchers recently concluded that a compound in green tea inhibits the growth of cancer cells. There is also research indicating that drinking green tea lowers total cholesterol levels, as well as improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol.

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interesting fact is: green tea can lighten the effect of alcohol and its consequences. If you have a hangover it helps to get water into the body, lightens headaches and so on.

8 properties of green tea

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lose weight Prevention of caries Energizant Good for diabetes Heart Health Antioxidant Boost Prevention of Arthritis Prevention of Cancer

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Reduce slows aging Reduce memory loss