Benefits of Green Tea

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Green tea has long been used by the Chinese as medicine to treat headaches, body ache, poor digestion, and improve well-being and life expectancy. Green tea extract is bioflavonoid rich, and one of its main uses is fighting free radicals in your body. It has higher contribution to health than other teas, because of the way it is dried. Green Tea is organically grown and the traditional drying technique used with Green Tea prevents the tea from the negative effects of fermentation.

Antioxidants may help protect our body from free radical damage. Indeed, tea ranks as high as or higher than many fruits and vegetables in the ORAC score, a score which measures antioxidant potential of plant-based foods.

Benefits of Drinking Tea:

* It also helps prevent some forms of cancer including colon, pancreatic, and stomach cancer.

* Green tea extract stimulates the immune system, and also helps defend against dental plaque.

* Green tea extract helps decrease hormone activity and is an effective treatment for acne.

* Lowers "bad" cholesterol (known as LDL) and improves the ratio of "good" cholesterol (known as HDL). It explains why tea-drinkers can eat almost twice the foods containing cholesterol as those who don't drink green tea, but still have an equal cholesterol count.

* Protects liver against toxins like alcohol and chemicals in cigarette smoke.

* Helps your body to maintain healthy fluid balance and relieve fatigue and stress often caused by dehydration.

The best way to preserve all the disease-fighting nutritious is to drink your tea freshly brewed. All the decaffeinated, ready-to-drink bottled or instant teas will give you very little of natural health compounds. It is better to let your tea steep for about 4-5 minutes before drinking it.