What's the big deal about Green tea? Nothing unless you want to prevent the ravaging diseases of aging, increase weight loss and keep your muscles, bones, skin and other organs youthful.
The big deal about green tea is its powerful abilities to suppress your appetite, boost your metabolic rate and decrease cell oxidation. Free radicals are your worst anti-aging foe.
With Age You Ripen, With Oxidation You Rot
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By decreasing cell oxidation, you prevent DNA damage and ensure that the millions of cells being replaced in your body every day are healthy and mutation-free.
Green tea contains polyphenols. Simply put, chemical substances found in plants. But not just any polyphenols, green tea's antioxidants are rich in catechins, the antioxidant polyphenolic.
Scientist now agree that free radical oxidation
is the cause of premature aging.Antioxidants must be a part of your health care regime.
And finally, while all teas (and chocolate!) contain catechins, only green tea contains apigallocatechin gallate ( EGCG for short). EGCG is a potent antioxidant being studied in the treatment of HIV infections (due to its ability to booster the immune system) and in the prevention dementia and osteoporosis. Green tea has many positive effects on the general aging process.
Used in Asia for 1000's of years, green tea is considered a medicine and has been used to prevent aliments from arthritis to tooth decay (tea also contains fluoride). Research also shows that green tea's antioxidants and phytonutrients uniquely protect the brain by blocking proteins that are thought to cause Alzheimer's disease.
The EGCG in green tea has 25 times more antioxidant power
than vitamin E and 100 times more than vitamin C.
If you want to retain the health and weight of your youth and protect cells and DNA from damage, you must have a steady antioxidant diet. While resveratrol gets all the press, the health benefits of green tea are powerful and far less expensive.
Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
Ancient Chinese proverb
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