Green Tea Health Benefits
According to legends, tea was discovered by a Chinese emperor about 5,000 years ago. This Chinese emperor was boiling water in the belief that it can become more portable and safer to drink. Then suddenly a large gust of wind took over and blew the leaves into the water that was boiling. By the combination of water and leaves, a brown mixture was fashioned. Reluctantly, the emperor discovered the mixture making a very fragrant aroma. The moment he tasted it, he described it to be agreeable. From that moment on, green tea was born.
No matter how accurate this legend is, what’s important is that green tea has become one of the most popular drinks in China. Drinking green tea made several discoveries regarding health benefits. Aside from green tea becoming an antioxidant, it is also claimed that it can help with cancer prevention, heart protection, arthritis prevention, and liver protection.
Cancer Prevention
Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases man has ever known. It has killed a lot of lives in many forms and is continuously killing more. With the discovery of green tea being able to help in cancer prevention and treatment, a lot of studies are trying to support every claim. It is said that drinking green tea, cancer has shown significant evidence of diminishing cancer cell results. Preliminary investigations have proven that green tea can prevent the growth of cancer cells in organs like the digestive system, urinary bladder, and pancreas.
Heart Protection
Antioxidants in green tea are one of the main reasons why people are enticed by it. Reducing incidences of increased cholesterol levels in our body, therefore, reduces the body to experience hypertension and cardiac diseases. Studies also show that green tea can help minimize thrombosis formation which is also an associated factor with heart disease. When thrombosis goes into blood circulation, there will come a time when the thrombus will block the way of the blood that is supposed to go to the heart and this will compromise the heart with blood supply. Preventing thrombus formation is one very important effect of green tea.
Arthritis Prevention
Some say it’s impossible for green tea to affect bone diseases but the tea has proved them wrong because reports have it that green tea can prevent arthritis. Not only can green tea prevent arthritis from occurring but also eliminate the painful symptoms being contributed by the problem too. According to research, green tea has a component that has the ability to reduce inflammation. Research also suggests that antioxidants have the capacity to delay any arthritic process that might occur and minimize irritable symptoms as well.
Live Protection
Because the liver is another agent responsible for metabolism, it is greatly affected by green tea. There is a strong correlation between bonds between liver function and antioxidants. When the liver does its job, it filters the body from toxins and washes them away through excretion.
Toxins are referred to as harmful substances that we gather through daily living like digested food, breathed air, consumed water, alcohol intake, and even remnants of cigarette smoking. What green tea provides the body is stimulating and strengthening the immune system making the liver more capable of filtering every single substance that can be dangerous to the body.
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