What are the benefits of drinking Green Tea?

Green Tea has been available for centuries and there are many products available. It’s not for nothing that countries like China have been using it for over centuries. But what is so healthy about Green Tea, what are the main benefits?

Everyone wants to find the ultimate product to life a healthy life and perhaps loose weight. There are a multitude of diets on the market and all of them promise you a better life - afterwards. Green Tea has many benefits and out of all of the health benefits, weight loss seems the most popular application.

But what about other benefits:

People using Detox diets also use Green Tea and it can be used as a healthy diet drink.

Green Tea is a powerful antioxidant and its tea leaves contain Epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, which may be able to obliterate cancer cells without disturbing neighboring tissues.

Green Tea has a favorable effect on hypertension and LDL cholesterol

Green tea contains caffeine in moderate quantity, which works as an appetite suppressant

Green tea is also good for maintaining good oral hygiene. It contains fluorine, which prevents cavities. It also carries ingredients which suppress plaque formation and bacteria which cause bad breath

Green tea contains Vitamin E which slows the aging process

It improves your immune system

Green Tea increases your body’s regular metabolism and also suppress the appetite. This is why it is considered a great diet inclusion.

When you are on a diet you take in fewer calories and that usually means you have lower energy levels. This means you won’t have any energy to do your weight loss exercises. But green tea contains guarana, which is a well known energy booster

Green Tea and weight loss:

A great benefit of using Green Tea for weight loss is that it can easily substitude other hot drinks such as coffe or chocolate. Therefore its easy to add a cup or two of Green Tea into your daily routine. However some people don´t like the taste of it and find it hard to drink the amount of cups recommended.

How about making your own Green Tea?