Healthy Lifestyle

Are there any other food or drink reported that many health benefits as green tea? The Chinese have knowledge about the medicinal properties of green tea since ancient times, used to treat everything from headaches to depression. In her book Green Tea: The Natural Secret for a Healthier Life, Nadine Taylor states that green tea has been used as medicine in China since at least 4000 years.

How much green tea should you drink?
There are several answers to this question, because researchers are studying the natural properties of green tea. For example, Herbs for Health magazine mentions a report from Japan shows that men drank ten cups of green tea per day stayed cancer free for three years longer than men (less three cups of beverage per day is about 240 to 320 mg polyphenols in three cups of green tea). Meanwhile, a study of the Western Reserve University in Cleveland that consumption may be four cups of green tea per day to prevent rheumatoid arthritis, or reduce symptoms in people who already have the disease. And Japanese researchers have found at the Institute of Cancer Research in Saitama, there is less spread recurrance of breast cancer and the disease is slower in women with a history of drinking five cups of green tea per day. Read entire article.

For centuries, the beneficial effects of green tea to the subject of numerous papers and scientific research was. There are more than four thousand years diet green tea is a beverage base for most Asians because of its countless health and medical services. It is said that the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung was the first to the diet of green tea were found. The Emperor Shen Nung was reported to have been boiling water when some leaves had fallen from a nearby plant in the pot. The leaves actually came from Camellia sinensis, the herb that is extracted from green tea consumption. With a diet of green tea is associated with health benefits. One advantage of a diet with green tea is a potential treatment against cancer. In some studies, certain substances in green tea diet can destroy cancer cells without damaging surrounding healthy tissue at all. This substance in green tea diet is called gallate (EGCG).

The results of the study on the cancer benefit of green tea diets were astounding and has led to further research and continue to investigate other aspects of diet green tea. In a study by Swiss and American scientists at the University of Geneva, it was found that the EGCG found in green tea diet has risen to 24-hours of energy in the body. They noted that this was due to boost the antioxidants in green tea thermogenesis food is otherwise known as fat metabolism. He found people who were on a diet of green tea showed a significant increase of four per cent above normal rates of metabolism. This led the researchers conclude that the diet green tea is an important factor in weight loss. Read entire article.