Benefits of Green Tea

Iced green tea is the perfect drink to have on a hot summer night. This drink is refreshing and incredibly tasty, but what is the best iced green tea's health benefits it holds. Add lemon to your iced green tea and you can make it even more tasty and healthy. If you have diabetes, you may want to sweeten your tea with a natural sweetener like stevia. Learn more about the advantages of iced green tea and enjoy them for better health. Vitamin C Benefits Iced green tea contains a large amount of vitamin C as both green tea and lemons are rich in this vitamin. Vitamin C has a significant impact on strengthening the immune system. A study by scientists at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences has shown green tea has the ability to prevent tumor formation in mammary cells. Vitamin C can also lower your cholesterol, and it can be used to treat diabetes and elevated blood pressure states Linda Page, author of Healthy Healing Linda Page, All the eleventh edition. ...

If you are a fan of green tea, then chances are you will also enjoy having green tea ice cream. If this happens, there are a couple of ways you can get your hands on some of this delicious ice cream. The first method is to search the supermarkets in the frozen food aisle looking for a tub of green tea ice cream. The second method, however, implies the use of a green tea ice cream recipe. Ingredients For Making Green Tea Ice Cream : » 1 tbsp Matcha Green Tea Powder » 3/4 cup whipped Heavy Cream » 3/4 cup Milk » 2 Egg Yolks » 5 tbsp Sugar » 3 tbsp Hot Water Steps for Preparation of Green Tea Ice Cream Recipe 1. Take a small dish and mix with hot water and green tea powder together and keep aside. Then take a pan and lightly whisk the egg yolks together. 2. Add sugar to egg yolks, lightly beaten, gradually adding the milk as well. Next, place the pan on the stove over a low heat. Stir in sugar, egg yolk and milk mixture constantly to avoid sticking to the pan....

In the past decade, green tea has become a choice of more and more popular drink for a number of reasons. Known for helping people lose weight while pushing things like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and bad cholesterol, green tea has become a part of the lives of people who are interested in being healthy. Interestingly, most people are completely unaware of the ingredients in green tea, which we wanted to cover in this article. With over 3000 different types of tea, it is fascinating to note that green tea is among the best choice. Grown on the Camellia sinensis bush, the leaves actually produce three distinct types of tea depending on how they are treated. For example, the unfermented leaves produce green tea, semi-fermented leaves produce oolong tea and fully fermented leaves of this plant to produce black tea. For green tea, the leaves must be dried quickly, which is usually in the form of Chinese by pan firing or steaming, which maintains the beautiful color and t...

All genuine green teas, black and white contain antioxidants that fight disease, because they come from the same plant. But green tea has much higher levels than most of catechin, a particularly powerful antioxidant. Although evidence to support the use of green tea in preventing or treating a health problem is not very clear, research in both animals and humans showed that some associations between these natural antioxidants of green tea and protection against health problems that affect men. Many of the studies showing positive results were carried out in Asian countries, where large populations of men drink green tea on a régulière.Protection cardiovascular An animal study, supported by the World Health Organization and published in 2004 in The Journal of Nutrition, has shown that antioxidants in both green and black teas can lower both an systolic and diastolic of arterial pressure. A human study, conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hos...

Green tea benefits for antiaging are well documented. Green tea fat burner is very effective in raising metabolism and aiding fat loss. Green tea supplements are available for those who aren't tea drinkers and provide all the benefits of drinking the tea. Antioxidant From The East Green tea originated in China, although it is grown in Japan as well, where it is just known as tea. You would be hard put to find a more potent natural antioxidant than green tea. It is a nutritional superstar. Green tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant. The leaves undergo very little oxidation during processing. The tea is rich in polyphenols like Epigallocatechin gallate, vitamin-c, and cartenoids, natural chemical compounds which have powerful antioxidant effects. The active ingredient Epigallocatechin Gallate is thought to be up to 200 times more potent an antioxidant as vitamin-e. This antioxidant activity is most likely the reason for its benefits, in addit...

It is widely believed that green tea helps you lose weight through active substances called catechins. Compared to white or black tea, catechins are believed to be most abundant in green tea as it is the least processed variety of tea. As such, green tea is widely becoming a dietary supplement for weight loss. Although research is steadily confirming this particular health benefit, experts do not recommend that dieters simply drink green tea alone to lose weight. How Does Green Tea Help You Lose Weight? It is proposed that catechins especially epigallocatechin gallate ( EGCG ) works by promoting thermogenesis, a heat-generating process directly associated with the utilization of fat. EGCG  blocks the activity of catechol-O-methyl transferase ( COMT ), a substance that inhibits thermogenesis. In turn, this translates to more fat being burned for energy. Get Moving with Green Tea Murase et al showed that green tea helps you lose weight more if you combined cups of green te...

Benefits of Green Tea to make your Memory Sharper Green tea reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease , cardiovascular disease, improves oral health and is an effective weight management option. As Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease affecting cognitive skills and memory research has been focused on the effects Green tea has on improving memory Short Term Memory Loss There are several causes of short term memory loss although the two most common causes are insufficient sleep and stress. In our busy lives the recommended 8 hours sleep is rarely achieved and most people tend to disregard they actually suffer from stress. Cortisol commonly called the stress hormone can be caused by an overload of sensory inputs to the brain. These sensory inputs from driving, neon lights, load music, TV’s and video games etc. put our sensory system on overload increasing cortisol levels in the body; increased cortisol destroys brain cells in the hippocampus. It is not uncom...

Most of the studies involving the cholesterol-lowering effects of green tea involve the use of green tea’s active ingredient, catenin extract, as opposed to the beverage itself. The mechanism of action is largely unknown, but it appears to increase LDL receptor activity in the liver, prevent absorption of cholesterol in the intestines, lower low density lipoprotein (LDL ), raise high density lipoprotein HDL ), and lower total cholesterol. One study examined the cholesterol lowering effect of 375 mg of catenin extract in 200 men and women with high cholesterol on a low fat diet. Researchers found that the catenin extract lowered total cholesterol by 11.3 percent, LDL cholesterol by 16.4 percent, triglycerides by 3.5 percent, and raised HDL by 2.3 percent. The catenin extract used in this study, however, was not pure and consisted of 75 mg of theaflavins (an antioxidant found in black teas), 150 mg of green tea catenins, and 150 mg of other tea polyphenols. Therefore, only a small por...