It was the ancient Chinese and Indians who came across this plant and started growing tea on a commercial scale. They knew a thing or two about herbal medicines and recognized many good things about green tea. This article will briefly touch upon some interesting studies and reports I’ve recently stumbled upon.

 

The first one contrasted a group of Japanese men who drank green tea for about three months, against another that did not. All of them had the same weight, diet and followed an exact lifestyle pattern. What this study found was those that had drunk green tea had lost some weight and a reduction in their waist size. The weight loss was no jaw-dropping amount and was only a few pounds, but it seemed to work for them.

 

As a side note there was also a lowering in the level of bad cholesterol in the group that drank the green tea.

 

Another study by nutritionists in England concluded that there were many positive effects on our health from drinking tea. For example the simple act of drinking four cups a day could lessen the chances of getting a heart attack. Plus, it seems it can also protect against tooth decay and plaque.

 

One seems to find more good things about it the more one looks at the overall research and the only negative I found was something about not drinking tea if you suffer from anaemia, as it could hinder the absorption of iron from the food we eat.

 

So, there’s many a good reason for us to increase our daily intake of green tea and one of the easiest ways to achieve this if you are already taking daily nutritional supplements, is to find one which includes a green tea extract in its ingredients.

Peter Foremski
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