Green Tea Nutrition

18 Aug, 2008

Green Tea Nutrition and Health Benefits

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Green Tea is a nutritious and delicious tea that offers a boatload of health benefits. Regular drinkers of green tea have reported its healthy side effect for centuries.

Originating in China and becoming a staple tea in much of Asia, green tea has creeping into Western diets and offering nutritional benefits that some scientists say can help reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Some people have used Green Tea Nutrition diet plans to treat multiple sclerosis, lower bad cholesterol, raise metabolism to reduce fat and lose weight and also prevent the degradation of cell membranes - that means regular green tea drinkers might look younger longer!

I’m a huge fan of Green Tea’s Nutritional value and believe it can help anyone live a happy and healthy life. You can easy use Green Tea to lose weight! Really! Check out Patricia Rouner’s book on controlling weight with a Green Tea diet if you want to find out more.

Many types of Green Tea exist, as now green tea is grown all over the world and different climates, harvesting schedules and processing affects the benefits of each region’s green tea leaves.

Green Tea can also be enjoyed in a number of ways, including hot brewed green tea, iced green tea and green tea supplements. Supplements may provide people seeking to benefit from green tea’s health qualities but who are not able to drink 5 cups of tea per day.

Another great fact about green tea is while the tea does contain caffeine, a cup of green tea contains only 1/3 the caffeine contained in a cup of coffee. I would encourage most tea drinking enthusiasts to avoid guzzling five cups of green tea before bed though, because that much green tea before bedtime might give drinkers insomnia - at least for a few hours!

I’ll be covering a lot more green tea nutrition plans and benefits here on this blog. If you’re a green tea fanatic like me, or just a health nut interested in learning more about the benefits of green tea, stick around!

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09 Oct, 2008

Green Tea Nutrition Benefits All Creatures, Japanese Commercial Shows

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09 Sep, 2008

Can a Green Tea Diet Help You Stop Aging?

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Green Tea Plantation | Flickr image by Josh-n

Green Tea’s polyphenols can help you reduce your risk of disease and help slow the effects of aging, some studies suggest.

Green Tea’s polyphenols are the naturally-occurring antioxidents that give green tea it’s flavor and provide disease prevention and treatment benefits. The major polyphenols are epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin and epigallocatechine gallate (EGCG).

EGCG contains 200 times the amount of antioxident level of Vitamin E, studies suggest.

How about that! Scientists have long-purported that Vitamin E is one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal against aging. And who doesn’t want to look younger longer?

It makes sense why Asian cultures tend to exhibit a more youthful appearance into later life because green tea’s anti-aging ingredient EGCG.

When your immune system is stronger, often attributed to healthy habits, your body is more prepared to Green tea’s polyphenols also provide nutrition needed to boost your immune system, which protects your body against bacteria, diease, fungi and other nasty critters. Your immune system helps you fight off infection and keep your organs and tissues safe and sound.

With the help of EGCG, your immune system is more equipped to fight against the decaying of your body’s cells, including your skin. Drinking green tea and taking in it’s anti-aging polyphenols thus help you maintain more youthful-appearing skin longer because your body is able to protect itself against damage

So can a green tea diet stop aging altogether? Of course not! But drinking green tea regularly, which some suggest drinking at least five cups a day, can keep you strong and energized.

If drinking that many cups of green tea per day sounds like more hassle than its worth, consider taking green tea extract supplements.

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08 Sep, 2008

Green Tea History: Ten Virtues of Tea

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Green Tea’s nutritional value is rooted in the tea’s history.

In the 12th century, Zen Monk Eisai brought tea seeds from China to Japan and also relayed the 10 virtues of tea.

Regular green tea drinkers will be able to relate to these virtues. Here are the 10 Virtues of tea:

  1. Tea has the blessing of all the Deities
  2. Tea promotes filial piety
  3. Tea drives away the devil
  4. Tea banishes drowsiness
  5. Tea keeps the Five Viscera (organs) in harmony
  6. Tea wards off disease
  7. Tea strengthens friendships
  8. Tea disciplines body and mind
  9. Tea destroys the passions
  10. Tea gives a peaceful death

Talk about an amazing drink. It’s not wonder that green tea has grown into a cultural phenomenon in Japan and other parts of Asia.

Now if anyone asks, you can give an even better answer for why you love drinking green tea

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04 Sep, 2008

How Green Tea Relaxes You Without Creating Drowsiness

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Green Tea image by Kanko*

Green Tea image by Kanko*

Ever notice that when drinking green tea, the tea’s caffeinated properties boost your mental functioning and alertness, but you still feel relaxed?

The secret?

Theanine!

Green Tea contains the special amino acid (the building blocks of protein) Theanine, which is unique to green tea.

Theanine makes up half of the amino acid concentration in green tea, adding heavily to the taste of the tea.

What’s more incredible about this amino acid is that L-theanine is one of few amino acids that enters into the brain, counteracting some of caffeine’s stimulant effects.

Green Tea’s L-theanine is able to instill relaxation in tea drinkers because the amino acid alters levels of serotonine, dopamine and other neurotransmitters while interacting with brain receptors associated with relaxation.

Green Tea’s wonder amino acid has been found to reduce anxiety, increase alpha brain wave activity, lower blood pressure, improve learning ability and even boost immune systems, studies find.

The Green Tea Book

There you have it. L-theanine allows caffeine to do its work and keep you alert while also helping you feel at ease. Sounds like a good drink to have to get you through the work day, doesn’t it?

I learned most of this information from a great book called The Green Tea Book. If you’re interested in learning more about Green Tea Health Benefits, check it out!

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