| Green tea offers many health benefits. It helps | | | | heart disease. Lowering your cholesterol and |
| prevent cancer, dementia, and can aid in weight | | | | reducing your risk for a heart attack can also |
| loss. How can this one drink offer so much? The | | | | lower your risk for dementia since these |
| answer lies in its key ingredient which is the | | | | conditions have been linked to Alzheimer's and |
| antioxidant known as catechins. This powerful | | | | other forms of memory loss. This tea may also |
| antioxidant comes from the herbal flower Camellia | | | | provide protection against cancer. |
| Sinensis. | | | | Green tea can help you maintain a trim waistline. |
| This plant is the source for not only green tea, | | | | The reason for this is because the ingredients |
| but for oolong, and black teas as well. Their | | | | contained in green tea help prevent the intestines |
| differences lie in the variations in the processing | | | | from absorbing excess fat. They also help in the |
| they go through. Black tea leaves go through a | | | | process of weight loss by preventing the |
| complete fermenting process, which reduces their | | | | absorption of fat from the intestines. This tea |
| active ingredients which are the polyphenols. The | | | | may also help arthritis patients too. |
| oolong tea leaves go through a partial | | | | Another reason that this tea is so good for you is |
| fermentation and have moderate levels of | | | | that it contains epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). |
| polyphenols. Green tea offers the best nutritional | | | | EGCG is also an extremely beneficial antioxidant. It |
| and health benefits because its leaves are | | | | helps control blood sugar levels. This is why it also |
| steamed rather than fermented. As a result, it | | | | helps prevent diabetes. |
| offers the greatest amount of polyphenols. | | | | The antioxidants contained in this tea are |
| Polyphenols are a rich source of the antioxidants | | | | extremely powerful and they can keep you |
| which are commonly referred to as catechins. | | | | healthy in so many ways. In order to maximize |
| Catechins block free radicals, which damage cells | | | | the benefits of green tea, make drinking this tea |
| in the body and speed up the aging process. In | | | | a part of your daily ritual. Drink at least 4 cups of |
| other words, the key ingredients in this healthy | | | | this tea every day. It is also available in the form |
| tea can help you look younger longer. These | | | | of a supplement. Consult your physician before |
| antioxidants also lower cholesterol levels in the | | | | taking this or any other supplement as they may |
| body, which means it offers protection from | | | | interact with certain medications. |