Green Tea Antioxidants - Working Naturally in Your Body
Time to ease up on the cokes and return to the numerous health benefits that green tea antioxidants bring to you
Green tea! The miraculous drink choc-full of very powerful antioxidants that may not have been found yet in such high levels in any other plant.
The antioxidants, or polyphenols (in particular one called EGCG _ epigallocatechin-gallate) are the difference between other plants and the tea plant...camellia senesis.
Green tea is steamed lightly and not oxidised as are black teas.
Antioxidants are natural compounds that protect the body from the effects of the free radical.
Free radicals are atoms that can do damage to cells and the immune system, causing infection, heart disease and other health problems.
Antioxidants have the ability to find and neutralize free radicals, helping expel them from the body.
As we know, cardio-vascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the US. Studies by Chong-Zhi Wang and Co. in 2007, showed that antioxidants found in many herbs and plants help protect against cardio-vascular disease by boosting the immune system and enhancing the effect of antioxidants in the body.
Add to this the effects of EGCG on dental caries, digestive disorders, stress, cholesterol, metabolism and weight loss, and you have every GOOD reason to drink green tea every day.
So, make it your drink and have at least 5 cups a day as recommended by nutritionists for a healthier body and for all the wonderful things that it does inside and out!
"Better three days without food than a day without tea" - so the ancient Chinese proverb goes...
How to
raise your antioxidant levels with green tea
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