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Excellent read

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

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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.

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3. Green Tea and Anti-Aging

Green tea contains 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.

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5. Green Tea and Skin

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate.

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11. Green Tea and Alzheimer's

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.

Read more about green tea and liver disease at http://www.finegreentea.c...liver.html


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.

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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 flavenoids 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

Theophylline 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 cutton 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.

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23. Green Tea and Stress

L-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.

Read more about green tea and allergy at http://www.finegreentea.c...lergy.html


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.

Read more about green tea and HIV at http://www.finegreentea.c...a-hiv.html

How's that for only some of the health benefits that green tea has to offer you? Almost miraculous, I'd say.

Now, your health is in your hands. You know you're smart. So, start drinking three to four cups of green tea every day for a drug-free and healthier YOU!

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How much/many cups are recommended per day?

wow thats great, considering im a green tea freak.

lazycrockett said:

3 to 4 cups

brownsugar said:

join the club

Depriving me from Green Tea is like cutting me off water

i hear it's good for douching, too.

green tea.

Fantastic article ... I will have to go get some now.

whats the best brand of green tea?

Ya know, I have some green tea at home that I bought a few months back. I really need to start drinking it.

sinisterpentatonic said:

So is soap

I tried Pom's lychee green tea a whle back I love the cute little glasses they come in too

Speaking of green tea.....it's been a while since I've had green tea ice cream.

AnckSuNamun said:

oh man i got about 12 of those glasses

Green tea will rupture your spleen.

brownsugar said:

My collection's starting to grow too I put flowers in them sometimes and use them for cheap vases.

Great thread! Drink your green tea people!

Never had a glass in my life. Which brand, flavor? Shit, I have never even thought about it until now.

I will go forth and spread the Green Tea love....if I like the taste.

weepingwall said:

That's what I was wondering too. Anybody know what's the best one to buy???

what about regular black tea? You know, breakfast tea?

Green tea is richer in antioxidents, and has less caffine than black. I drink 3-4 cups a day. Lately I've been getting this, sweetened with stevia:




It comes in a tin, with pouches that you hang over your cup like so:

Does it help diarrhea?

fathermcmeekle said:

Yes is does.

White tea's better though.

I just went out and bought a twelve pack of green tea bottles, is the kind from the supermarket as good for you?

cutn said:

Can be, if it doesn't have sugar, preservatives or additives, although I think there may be a fair bit of caffeine in it.

Can you buy sugar free white tea in bottles there yet?

The only tea in bottles I really ever drink are the ones by Oishi:



Just the sugar free one though.

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