Green Tea - Healthy Wellness

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 three to four cups of green tea today, you're definitely not doing your health a big favor. Here are the 25 reasons why you should start drinking green tea right now:

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 24 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer.

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.

3. Green tea and Anti-aging: Green tea contains an antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight against free radicals. What this means it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity.

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.

5. Green tea and skin: The 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10. Green tea and diabetes: Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolism, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Green tea and Alzheimers: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

17. Green tea and immunity: Polyphenols and flavonoids found in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.

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.

19. Green tea and asthma: Theophyline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

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.

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.

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.

23. Green tea and stress: L-the theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in green tea, can help relieve stress and anxiety.

24. Green tea and allergies: EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea.

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.

Published by HT Syndication with permission from Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka).

綠茶是健康飲品，不少辦公室一族都會常備綠茶，因為它既能防輻射又能降血脂。夏季常喝綠茶能清熱解暑，其實除了這些眾所周知的功效，綠茶還有很多不為人知的保健作用。一起來看看綠茶的9個養生功效吧！
夏季喝綠茶提神療煩，解熱止渴，消食除膩，殺菌消炎，防齲固齒，減肥健美，和胃利尿，明目清心，解煙釁，降壓除脂，減輕癌變，增加血管壁彈性，防原子輻射傷害等各樣功效。在當今飲料之中無有能和它相比的，綠茶具有香高、味醇、形美、耐沖泡等特點，被譽為原子時代的飲料。
綠茶性寒，「寒可清熱」，最能祛火、生津止渴、消食化痰，對口腔和輕度胃潰瘍有加速癒合的作用。沖泡後水色清洌，香氣清幽，滋味鮮爽。夏日常飲綠茶除了清熱解暑外，還有許多其他保健作用。

1、防曬
近日，美國有一項研究指出，綠茶中的兒茶素有很強的抗氧化功能，將含有綠茶成分的護膚品塗抹在皮膚上後，即使被烈日照射，可讓導致皮膚曬傷、鬆弛和粗糙的過氧化物減少約1/3。這就證明綠茶中的成分具有防曬功用。>

2、防輻射
對於生活緊張而忙碌的人群來說，抵禦電腦輻射最簡單的辦法就是每天上午喝2～3杯綠茶，吃一個橘子。因為茶葉中含有豐富的維生素A原，被人體吸收後能迅速轉化為維生素A。維生素A能合成視紫紅質，使眼睛在暗光下看東西更清楚。因此，綠茶不僅能消除電腦輻射，還能保護和提高視力。

3、降脂
飲茶能夠降低血液中的血脂及膽固醇，令身體變得輕盈。這是因為茶里的酚類衍生物、芳香類物質、氨基酸類物質、維生素類物質綜合協調的結果，特別是茶多酚與茶素和維生素C的綜合作用，能夠促進脂肪氧化，幫助消化、降脂減肥。

4、防口臭
綠茶含氟，其中兒茶素可以抑制生齲菌作用，減少牙菌斑及牙周炎的發生。茶所含的單寧酸具有殺菌作用，能阻止食物渣屑繁殖細菌，故能有效防止口臭。

5、抗衰老
綠茶所含的抗氧化劑有助於抵抗老化。因為人體新陳代謝的過程，如果過氧化，會產生大量自由基，容易老化，也會使細胞受傷。SOD(超氧化物歧化)是自由基清除劑，能有效清除過剩自由基，阻止自由基對人體的損傷。綠茶中的兒茶素能顯著提高SOD的活性，清除自由基。

6、抗菌
研究顯示，綠茶中兒茶素對引起人體致病的部分細菌有抑制效果，同時又不致傷害腸內有益菌的繁衍，因此綠茶具備整腸的功能。有研究表明茶多酚能清除機體內過多的有害自由基，能夠再生人體內的α-VE、VC、GSH、SOD等高效抗氧化物質，從而保護和修復抗氧化系統，對增強機體免疫、對防癌 、防衰老都有顯著效果。

7、防胃病
一項研究表明，多喝綠茶能夠預防慢性胃炎和胃癌。研究發現，喝綠茶時間越久的人患慢性胃炎和胃癌的比率就越低，愛喝綠茶的人患胃癌的比率比不喜歡喝茶的人低48%。

8、防癌
綠茶對某些癌症有抑製作用，但其原理皆限於推論階段。對防癌症的發生，多喝茶必然是有其正向的鼓勵作用。

從抗癌到減肥再到延緩老年痴呆症，綠茶幾乎對每種主要病症都能起到作用。不管是熱水還是冷水，只要加入一點綠茶對你的身體都是百利無害。如果你不喜歡放茶包，那就試試液體綠茶精華，倒一點在水裡，哇!速溶綠茶就好了。

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