Green Tea Benefits

Try a cup of high quality green tea, smell the sweet aroma, and taste the delicious flavor of the tea. If you do, you won't want to go back to drinking coffee or ordinary black tea again.

Green tea, a minimally processed variety of tea, is first withered then dried immediately after picking to halt oxidation. Recently, much has been said about the antioxidant properties of the constituents of green tea. Tea extracts formulated for high-polyphenol content contain the greatest amounts of beneficial substances as they are highly concentrated formulations.

The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. Today, scientific research in both Asia and the west is providing hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking green tea.

There is a modern Japanese report stating that people who drank ten cups of green tea per day stayed cancer-free for three years longer than those who drank less than three cups a day. Meanwhile, another study proved that drinking four or more cups of green tea per day could help prevent rheumatoid arthritis, or reduce symptoms if already suffering from the disease. Japanese scientists at a cancer research institute discovered that there were fewer appearances of breast cancer in women drinking five cups or more of green tea daily.

To sum up, here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful: