Within recent times Catechins rich Green Tea has become the health rage.
The best variety is said to be found in tea farms in China, mainly those guarded from pesticides. It is emphasized that to drink pure green tea without man-made or other artificial flavors is our best bet to reap great rewards.
Teas have been found to have immense effect on the amount of cholesterol in our blood stream and on our health in general. Experts claim that Green tea may also help in battling cancer. The Japanese, it was discovered supported the concept of drinking 10 or more cups of green tea a day so as to delay the onset of cancer by some nine years among women and about three years in men.
I have found that good green tea is the high-grade tea sold at Japanese Online Tea shops. These are great tasting teas and contain large amounts of polyphenols and flavoniods (catechins which are also immune system boosters), and natural vitamins and minerals. Catechins are free radical destroyers. Green tea is found to contain carotenoids, chlorophyll, polysaccharides natural vitamins C and E, manganese, potassium, and zinc, all essential "bad boys" to help in fending off ill health.
Pure green tea is said to be 100 times more effective than vitamin C from other sources, and 25 times better than vitamin E from other sources.
You may find green tea is often mixed with other medicinal herbs in leading drug stores, and you may seldom find pure green tea sold alone. Green tea is mainly sold in tea bags, but modern manufacturing has made possible to liquefy it in bottles, and also in powdered form in sachet packages, preserving its health and healing benefits.
Green tea and all natural food supplements contain micro-nutrients that feed our immune system and strengthen our body cells.
When our immune system becomes stronger, tissue and cell repair becomes enhanced in a way that the body maintains the ability to heal itself; therefore, ailments and even critical diseases are healed. It is not the food supplement doing the healing, but the empowered immune human system.
A monk from Japan, noted in 1211 AD that (green) tea is a miraculous medicine for the maintenance of health. He remarked, “Tea has the extraordinary power to prolong life. Anywhere a person cultivates tea, long life will follow.”
The Japanese monk further recorded that tea in general was an elixir that created the “immortal” mountain dwellers.
European explorers of the 16th century discovered that tea, especially green tea, was used to treat fever, headache, joint pains, and stomachaches and some other health ailments.
Modern nutritionists and herbal medicine experts, claim that Green tea can help prevent high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, heart ailments, skin diseases, and lung ailments. It actually delays the aging process. It eliminates distress by refreshing your mind and body with antioxidants. Now that is quite a bang for your health buck coming from Green tea.
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