Green Tea: A Super Drink

       That cute, little Chinese restaurant isn’t the only place you can find green tea. Surprisingly green tea is found in a lot of things. You can find it in cosmetic items, health foods, dietary supplements, and various beverages. Green tea is an awesome healthy ingredient. It comes from a plant called Camellia Sinensis that was originally grown in China but, has become well known all over the world. There are green tea farms sprouting up across the United States, and it has become a popular rival to black tea.

Green tea is a fresh, healthy beverage that comes with lots of benefits. What are these benefits?

Well, accordoing to Kris Gunnars here are the top 10 benefits of drinking green tea:

1.      Green Tea Contains Various Bioactive Compounds That Can Improve Health

2.      Compounds in Green Tea Can Improve Brain Function and Make You Smarter. Green tea has caffeine in it but not enough to make you jittery like coffee does.

3.      Green Tea Increases Fat Burning and Improves Physical Performance. This is one of the reasons people use it in their shakes, drink it by itself, or take green tea pills.

4.      Antioxidants in Green Tea May Lower Your Risk of Various Types of Cancer. Green tea is a great way to get antioxidants, which fight against cancer and protect the cells. Multiple studies show that green tea drinkers have a lower risk of various types of cancer.

5.      Green Tea May Protect Your Brain in Old Age, Lowering Your Risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Not only can green tea improve brain function in the short term, it may also protect your brain in old age. Multiple studies show that the catechin compounds in green tea can have various protective effects on neurons in test tubes and animal models, potentally lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

6.      Green Tea Can Kill Bacteria, Which Improves Dental Health and Lowers Your Risk of Infection.  It even helps against bad breath and kills germs.

7.      Green Tea May Lower Your Risk of Type II Diabetes. One study in Japanese individuals found that those who drank the most green tea had a 42% lower risk of developing type II diabetes.

8.      Green Tea May Reduce Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease. Green tea also dramatically increases the antioxidant capability of the blood, which protects the LDL cholesterol particles from oxidation, which is one part of the pathway towards heart disease.

9.      Green Tea Can Help You Lose Weight and Lower Your Risk of Becoming Obese. Many studies have shown that green tea leads to decrease in body fat, especially in the abdomen area.

10.  Green Tea May Decrease Your Risk of Dying Sooner and Help You Live Longer. The ingredients in green tea fight against so many causes of death that it could be increasing your life span.