How to Improve Health With Green Tea

Millions of people are learning the health benefits of green tea. It contains nutrients that are essential to a healthy lifestyle. Green tea has helped build people's immune systems for more than 4,700 years. Today you see it added to bottled water, weight loss products and even soda pop.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Choose a green tea with L-thiamine. It is the component in green tea that strengthens T-cells. Green tea gives your body an anti-inflammatory and an anti-allergic boost.
2. Read the ingredients on the tea. Make sure that it includes catechin. A study published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concludes that daily consumption of tea containing 690 mg catechin for 12 consecutive weeks reduces body fat. The catechins also increase the brain chemical norepinephrine and slow the rate of cognitive decline.
3. Make sure the tea has antioxidants. Studies show that antioxidants slow the growth cancer cells. Antioxidants fight damage caused by free radicals.
4. Buy tea that has been steamed not fermented. Steamed tea leaves have more nutritional value than fermented tea leaves.
5. Drink at least two to three cups of green tea a day. Studies suggest that green tea helps your circulatory system by reducing the oxidation of LDL cholesterol.

Tips & Warnings

• In most studies about green tea, the participants drink 4 to 5 cups of tea a day.
• You should not add milk or cream to green tea. It hinders the beneficial effects of the tea.
• Green tea capsules are also available and work just as well as regular green tea.