25 Reasons Why You Should Drink Green Tea Now

1.   Green tea helps reduce the risk of cancer. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed

to be linked to cancer.

2.   Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells.

3.  Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight against free radicals, that is, it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity.

4.  Green tea helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day – or 7 pounds weight in one year.

5. Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.

6. Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Green tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage.

7. Since green tea contains a high fluoride content, drinking it every day will help keep your bones strong and preserve your bone density.

8. Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, by reducing bad cholesterol level.

9. Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you’ll be obese.

10. Green tea can aid in diabetes. It improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there’s no cure for Alzheimer’s, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer’s.

12. Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain, which could cause Parkinson’s. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson’s.

13. Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.

14. Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.

15. Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

16. Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides present in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

17. Polyphenols and flavenoids found in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.

18. Green tea can prevent you from catching a cold or influenza. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.

19. Theophylline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

20. Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cutton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.

21. Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.

22. Green tea destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental diseases. It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.

23. L-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids found in green tea, can help relieve stress and anxiety.

24. EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies.

25. Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in green tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells.