The Benefits of Green Tea and How to Get Them Without Any Caffeine
The benefits of green tea are too numerous to disregard if you are concerned about staying healthy during a time when widespread disease and health problems are as common as getting up in the morning. This healthy drink helps us in our fight against diseases as big as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, to the simplest ailment like cavities in our teeth.
When I read about the benefits of green tea it makes sense to include it in my daily beverage selection. Just the thought of being able to prevent cancer, including gastrointestinal cancers such as stomach, esophagus and liver in particular is enough to send me to the cupboard right now and get a bag of green tea and turn the stove on under my tea pot and enjoy the delicious taste of this beverage.
The thing that is stopping me is the fact that is it 5:00 at night, and I donâ??t dare drink anything with caffeine in it this late in the day if I want to get some shut eye tonight. My body just wonâ??t tolerate caffeine late in the day, or even more than one cup earlier in the day.
If I donâ??t get my sleep my husband thinks I am a bear to live with, and I donâ??t mean the cuddly teddy bear type. So to save my marriage and to live happily with myself I stay away from caffeine as much as possible.
Yet I still want the benefits of green tea, so I take a supplement that contains decaffeinated green tea extract as one of its many nutritional ingredients. Other ingredients include amino acids, vitamins and minerals, enzymes and other herbal extracts like ginkgo biloba, and milk thistle.
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Elizabeth Ruby
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Green tea vs. black tea, which is better for you? With milk or without?
I just read an interesting article which I’ll post here if Yahoo allows that many words. here goes: RealAge Tip
A Brew That Prevents Parkinson’s?
Tea time. What better way to give your body and mind a little breather? But if you choose a certain color of tea, you may really do your brain a favor.
A large study in Singapore showed that black tea might have the power to slash Parkinson’s disease risk by almost a third.
Hormone Helper?
In the study, people who drank the most black tea were 29 percent less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease (PD), compared with the least enthusiastic black-tea drinkers. Although the researchers were poised to credit the caffeine in black tea for the benefit, it turned out not to be so. Instead, it may be that black tea somehow affects estrogen levels in a favorable anti-Parkinson’s way (the disease is less common in women than in men). Interestingly, green tea showed no protective effects against PD. But there are still plenty of reasons — like these — to sip green.
More Tea-Time Extras
There’s no shortage of other reasons to drink tea, including:
?A healthier heart. The brew is bursting with cardioprotective polyphenols. Just make sure to leave out the milk(see related article for justification)
Black or green, tea is brimming with heart-healthy benefits.
Compounds in green and black teas have a healthful impact on several markers of heart disease risk, but debate continues as to which kind of tea is healthiest. Recent research suggests it may be a dead heat. In a study, green and black tea appeared equally protective against fatty arterial plaque buildup.
Black, oolong, and green teas are made from leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. The difference between green and black tea is the level of oxidation the tea leaves experience during processing. The longer tea leaves experience oxidation, the darker they become. Research suggests oxidation levels probably have little influence over the amount of heart-healthy flavonoids different teas contain, although there may be some variation. A recent animal study suggests both green and black tea may produce similar improvements in blood vessel health. According to the researchers, the average 150-pound person would have to drink two 5-ounce cups of green or black tea daily to get heart-health benefits similar to those achieved in the animal study.
Tea with milk vs. without:
Drink Tea, Skip the Milk
Milk can do your body good, but maybe not when it’s in your tea.
Women in a study who drank black tea had improved cardiovascular function — but that protection vanished if they drank it with milk. Temper the taste of your black tea with lemons instead. Or sip it as the Chinese traditionally do: straight up.
Researchers are not sure why milk may blunt tea’s heart-healthy effects, but milk proteins called caseins are possible culprits. Tea is bursting with health-boosting polyphenols, but proteins have been shown to counteract them. In one study, when researchers added a small amount (10 percent) of milk to black tea, it reduced the tea’s concentration of catechins — polyphenols credited with giving tea its antioxidant punch as well as fighting heart disease and boosting weight loss. The study results may help explain, in part, why tea’s heart benefits appear to be missing in the United Kingdom, where milk is usually added to the brew.
It’s not a done deal, however. Other studies have concluded that milk has no effect on tea’s antioxidant powers. But the conflicting study results may simply be due to the way the scientists measured the good stuff in tea.
In this recent study, researchers measured the effects of tea — with and without milk — on blood vessels in the cardiovascular system. Straight black tea helped blood vessels relax and widen, allowing blood to flow more freely. Tea with milk did not produce the same effect.
green tea is good for the heart, and black tea is good for your heart……all in all they are both really good for you…stick to green tea.
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green tea is better for you. The less processing the tea goes through, the more benefits it has for the health. Black tea is left to oxidize more and some of the benefits are lost
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they both are equally healthy for you since they are good for your skin and they both contain antioxidents.
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