In China, the largest annual consumption, is green tea.
The first tea that everyone waits for every spring is green tea.
Internationally, green tea is also the most researched topic in relation to tea and health.
To say why the presence of green tea is so high, especially the health care function is particularly valued, is ultimately due to the characteristics of green tea is not fermented, to a great extent to retain the original beneficial substances in the fresh leaves of the tea tree.
It is because of these amazing substances that green tea has a health effect that other beverages do not have.
Since the 1980s, Japanese scientists discovered the anti-cancer effect of green tea, the outstanding health effects of green tea has gradually been widely recognized by tea lovers.
Let’s take a look, what are the health effects of this amazing green tea.
1.Drive away sleepiness/refresh and clear the mind
“North window high lying snoring like thunder, who sent vanilla for dream back”, Lu You in the “test tea” poem, explains the tea has a refreshing and waking up the role of the brain, the tea that was drunk at that time, that is, green tea.
The reason why tea is refreshing, because tea contains caffeine, and the same grams of the case, the content is higher than coffee beans. Caffeine can excite the cerebral cortex and the central nervous system to a certain extent, which has the effect of refreshing the brain and quick thinking.
The development of tea is inseparable from the development of Buddhism, since ancient times, many temples have planted tea, tea, tea, tea habit, especially monks meditate and practice, too long easy to get tired and sleepy, a cup of green tea is a very good drink to help them focus their minds, meditation and thinking.
If you are tired and sleepy in the afternoon, you can have a cup of green tea!
2.Tea rinses mouth to prevent caries/Anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory to promote healing
Fluorine and polyphenols in green tea are beneficial to the teeth, and can also effectively inhibit the reduction of calcium, together with the effect of sterilization and disinfection, for the prevention of dental caries, tooth care, tooth fixing, are helpful.
Tea polyphenols have a strong astringent effect on pathogenic bacteria, viruses have obvious inhibition and killing effect. Spring virus, bacteria breeding, drink more green tea to protect health.
In addition, if you have mouth ulcers, contain a moment of green tea water (room temperature), can promote the healing of the affected area.
According to relevant information, in primary and secondary school students in the “tea gargling” test, the rate of dental caries is greatly reduced, but also effective in removing bad breath, fresh breath.
3.Accelerates digestion/Counteracts large amounts of meat and fish
The Tang Dynasty’s “Gleanings from the Materia Medica”, tea has “long food makes people thin” records, mainly because tea has the effect of promoting digestion.
Because the caffeine in tea can improve the secretion of gastric juice, accelerate the digestion of food. In addition, a variety of compounds in green tea, have the role of regulating fat metabolism, big fish and meat, stagnation and indigestion can let green tea to help you.
4.Blocking Cancer Causing Factors/Reduces the risk of cancer
Unfermented green tea maintains the original polyphenols in tea, tea polyphenols can block the synthesis of nitrosamines and other carcinogens in the body, and has a powerful scavenging effect of free radicals, reducing the damage of free radicals on the relevant DNA in the cell.
Free radicals are equivalent to the intermediate products of biochemical reactions. Our body produces a lot of free radicals every day, which is a normal phenomenon, but not too much.
There has been clear evidence that free genes in an unstable state can lead to a variety of uncomfortable symptoms in the body, of which cancer is one of the most serious. Drinking green tea regularly to remove free radicals from the body can reduce the risk of cancer in this regard.
5.Facing computers and cell phones for a long time/Green tea can reduce radiation damage
Tea polyphenols and their oxidized products have the ability to absorb radioactive substances. Relevant clinical trials have confirmed that tumor patients in the process of radiation therapy, may cause some mild radiation sickness, such as leukopenia, at this time with tea extracts for therapeutic rehabilitation, the effect is very good.
And the last point is similar, radiation is actually free radicals, and even cancer cells produce a risk factor, green tea can be prevented in advance.
In practice, office workers often have to face the computer for a long time, and modern people look at the cell phone a lot, unconsciously will be harmed by radiation, green tea in this case is the preferred beverage.
6.Drink green tea to look younger/Slow down the aging process
Ever noticed that tea lovers look younger among their peers?
This is because the skin looks better when free radicals are controlled. Moreover, aging and diseases in the human body are largely related to the excessive free radicals in the human body.
Green tea in the tea polyphenols and vitamins have a strong antioxidant power and physiological activity, according to the results of the Japanese Okuda Tuoyong test, confirmed that tea polyphenols anti-aging effect than vitamin E is 18 times stronger.
7.Lipid Lowering/Cardiovascular Gospel
Tea polyphenols have an important role in human fat metabolism, which is of great significance to the reduction of blood lipids.
In particular, tea polyphenols in the catechins and their oxidation products such as theaflavin, can promote cholesterol discharge, but also helps to make the formation of blood coagulation viscosity enhancement of fibrinogen reduction, coagulation becomes clear, thereby inhibiting atherosclerosis.
8.Stress relief/good mood
Fresh green tea is high in theanine as well as vitamin C, which promotes the body’s secretion of stress-fighting hormones.
The theanine’s calming effect inhibits over-excitement and produces a comfortable sense of calm after a period of refreshing tea drinking.
The caffeine in tea can promote urination, while discharging excessive lactic acid, which helps to eliminate fatigue as soon as possible.
Of course, also need to be reminded that green tea has millions of benefits, but if colds and fever, habitual constipation, peptic ulcers, renal dysfunction, neurasthenia, as well as menstruation, pregnancy, breastfeeding women, etc. are not suitable for drinking green tea, so tea lovers or for individual physiological characteristics, there are trade-offs, yo.
Tea is not medicine, but in increasing our interest in life at the same time, attached to a rare health value, improve our resistance, so that less people get sick.
The above role, is the need to drink tea as a daily habit, to drink every day, in order to feel, rely on drinking tea for health, is not a bite to eat into fat oh.
