Health Benefits Of Green Tea

Health Benefits Of Green Tea

Tea is a known drink to the whole world ranging from children to age old people. While in India, both tea and coffee are well known, particularly in South India coffee is preferred the same extent as that of tea! Many people are concerned about the caffeine content that will be present in coffee and hence desert to tea. But the drawback with some people is that they get addicted to tea and hence will get headaches and other issues when they do not consume tea. While to encounter such problems, green tea plays a very important role and is known to dominate the characters of tea.

Green tea is a beverage which is said to be cheap and best and also has many of the benefits which are not known by people usually. Today let us try to learn about few benefits and conclude that drinking green tea is not harmful to health.

The benefits of green tea are :

• The most important is that green tea helps in avoiding cancer as it has antioxidants to a cent times more than that present in vitamin C.
• Heart attack is prevented effectively due to the presence of very low levels of cholesterol in green tea.
• The polyphenols present in green tea help in free radical substitution which is anti-ageing in nature.
• The weight loss in the body is also promoted by green tea very vigorously as it burns fat and cholesterol naturally.
• Research shows that green tea helps to prevent liver transplantation failure.
• The anti-oxidants in green tea is said to make the person less prone to Parkinson’s disease.
• The blood pressure is also controlled by green tea by calming the angiotensin secretion which leads to high blood pressure.
• Vitamin C in green tea also helps to avoid cold and flu.
• Theophyline which is present in green tea is said to prevent asthma by dilating the bronchial tubes.
• By soaking cotton in green tea and cleansing the ear regularly, ear infection is said to be avoided though I have not tried still.
• It also helps in avoiding herpes according to a study.

To avail all these benefits it is said that people should drink green tea for at least 3 to 4 times a day. After knowing all these, let’s not get a thought of green tea being addiction and bad for health.