If you love drinking tea, you might be familiar with green tea! Is green tea good for you? And why you should choose it instead of other beverages?
Before continuing to read, (if you are tea lover) you may also like to read the previous article about matcha green tea powder! It is a high class (premium class) of green tea. A cup of matcha tea is believed to the equivalent of 10 green tea cups (in terms of antioxidant content and nutritional value).
The following are top reasons (health benefits & advantages) from green tea, so thus you can take a conclusion on your own about “Is green tea good for you or not?”
- It can be a nice idea for burning fats! With its antioxidant, it can boost up the metabolic rate! A recent study in U.S found that some people with have a regular habit on drinking green tea 3 times a day burned their extra calories up to 200 calories /day. Moreover, this habit is also believed for the reason of their increased energy levels.
- Some studies in Japan also found that a compound in this tea may help and give a positive contribution to fight allergies.
- Can be a nice idea to promote better performance of our immunity! A research in Japan found that gargling with this tea may be effective to improve your immunity (so thus more powerful to protect your body from cold and flu). Furthermore, a recent study from Harvard University found that this tea may also stimulate grammadelta T-cells, which also can be useful to boost the performance of your immunity for viruses-&-bacteria-fighting!
- Helpful to lower our risk of cancer. It has special compounds to help lower your risk of cancer. These compounds are EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), which can provide useful cancer-fighting properties for your body!
- Many doctors also believe that it is helpful to protect the body from the risk of heart disease. Drinking this tea properly will give a positive contribution for you to control easier your bad cholesterol and blood pressure levels! One of major causes of hypertension is ACE (angiotension- converting enzyme). And green tea has a natural inhibitor for ACE.
- There is also a study that found this tea may also be helpful to lower your chance of Alzheimer’s disease! Unfortunately, there is still no clearly link!
- If you seriously want to lower your likelihood of hepatitis, you can choose this tea for one of your best therapies. As well we know that high iron levels in the liver are often believed the major cause of viral hepatitis. And by drinking green tea properly, you can reduce the amounts of iron throughout your body.
- Helpful to keep lower blood sugar levels with its polyphenols is the other reason why green tea is good for you! That’s why in people with diabetes, their dietitian may also recommend involving this tea in their diabetes diet menu.
- Helpful to lower your risk of arthritis! There are also some studies found that green tea has useful antioxidants that may be effective to reduce your risk of arthritis or even to prevent arthritis!
- And green tea is also believed helpful in reducing your risk of food poisoning! It can help kill unfriendly bacteria and certain viruses. For example, it is helpful for the growth of bifidobacteria (friendly bacteria) and helpful to eliminate the growth of unfriendly bacteria (like E-coli and clostridia). Moreover, with its special ability that can be an anti-bacterial agent, drinking it with food or meal will be helpful to kill unfriendly oral bacteria, which means drinking it with food can lower your risk of bad breath & cavities.
So, if you ask about “is green tea good for you”? Personally, I will answer ‘Yes”. And if you have a plan to use it for your therapy to treat a certain medical problem, you should consult first with your doctor to get the right advices!
Read also green tea extract benefits and side effects!
-- Image credit to ‘shutterstock’
