Drinking Green Tea

Green tea is one of the drinks that bring more benefits to your health. This green tea has been used in China for many centuries as treatment for varied illnesses and conditions such as infections and even depression.  Modern research about the benefits of green tea seem to confirm what the Chinese knew all along, and the best thing is that green tea is available to anyone!

Green tea is known to be great for treating and preventing cancer, infections, impaired immune function, cardiovascular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and high cholesterol levels.  But perhaps the benefit that made green tea so popular is weight loss (thanks to an increased fax oxidation) and an increased metabolism speed.  Nowadays is easy to find many green tea extracts and pills sold for dieting.

Green tea is rich in antioxidants (cachetins and specially EGCG).  Antioxidants help battling cancerous cells by inhibiting its growth. It also helps lowering LDL cholesterol levels and preventing blood clots – thus preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Green tea provides these great benefits thanks to the way it is processed.  Green tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. The leaves are steamed, this part helps preventing the oxidization of EGCG and is the part that sets it apart from other teas such as black tea and oolong tea.

Besides the before mentioned, some researchers also have found it can be useful to treat and prevent multiple sclerosis, Alzhemier’s and Parkinson’s disease, and even tooth decay since it helps killing the bacteria that forms tooth plaque.

About any negative side effect of green tea, the only one is insomnia.  Green tea contains caffeine, although it has less than coffee.  If you take a normal amount of green tea on a day, you shouldn’t have problems sleeping well. I personally recommend drinking a glass with very meal.