benefits of green tea for healthy life
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Benefits of green tea for healthy life
Green tea is prepared from unfermented leaves and apparently
contains the maximum concentration of powerful antioxidants called
polyphenols. Antioxidants are substances that fight free radicals --
damaging element in the body that modify cells, damage DNA, and
even cause cell death. Antioxidants such as polyphenols in green tea
can deactivate free radicals and may decrease or even help prevent
some of the harm they cause.
Benefits of Green Tea:
• Heart Disease
It has been revealed that green tea lower LDL (bad) cholesterol,
because its potent antioxidant effects slow up the oxidation of LDL
cholesterol in the arteries.
The development of abnormal blood clots (thrombosis) is the primary
cause of heart attack and stroke, and green tea has been shown to slow
down abnormal blood clot formation as efficiently as aspirin.
• Lower blood pressure
A main reason of hypertension (high blood pressure) is an enzyme
produced by the kidneys called angiotension- converting enzyme (ACE).
Key drugs for hypertension act as ACE inhibitors by preventing the
effects of ACE, blood pressure is reduced. Green tea is a natural ACE
inhibitor, and numerous medical studies show reduced blood pressure
in animals and humans given green tea extracts.
• Protect against diabetes
Green tea polyphenols reduce amylase, and so can help lower blood
sugar levels. High blood levels of glucose and insulin affect people to
diabetes.
• Prevent food poisoning
Drinking green tea with meals may diminish the risk of bacterial food
poisoning.
It prevents the development of hazardous intestinal bacterial strains
such as clostridia and E. coli and promotes the expansion of friendly
bifidobacteria.
• Prevent bad breath
Drinking green tea with food can help to kill the oral bacteria which
causes cavities and bad breath.
• Guards against hepatitis
Viral hepatitis is frequently triggered due to high levels of iron in the
liver. Green tea diminish iron levels all through the body, so may have a
direct anti-viral effect against few strains of hepatitis.