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 [...]
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 [...]
If you’re like many of us on quest to lose weight, you’re cutting calories where you can, while trying to maintain some sort of flavor to your diet.
For many of us, we may first turn to replacing soda with diet soda.
A healthy alternative to drinking soda, whether diet or not, could be creating your own [...]
A lot of people suffer from mild acne – that’s why its a multi-billion dollar business throughout the world.
If you’re like a lot of us, you’ve dealt with a few acne battles. And if you’re like a huge chunk of us, you’ve tried a number of over-the-counter and even prescription anti-acne products.
The problem that many [...]
The Wall Street Journal recently profiled a skin products expert who uses a very simple solution for keeping her skin radiant, refreshed and youthful.
Can you guess what it is?
If you guess Green Tea, you are correct!
Skin-products guru Lina Tanaka told the Journal that she brews fresh Green Tea daily – using either green tea bags [...]
