Is there any other drink or food reported to have as many health benefits as GREEN TEA? This particular tea has been acclaimed as a highly beneficial health drink. Various scientific researches have provided hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking green tea. The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, and have used it to treat everything from headaches to depression. Green tea has been extensively studied in people, animals, and laboratory experiments and studies have shown that Green Tea has immense potential to fight cancer and heart disease and also have has shown its role in lowering cholesterol, burning fat, preventing diabetes and stroke, and staving off dementia.
What Makes Green Tea So Special?
There are three different types of tea and each type is processed quite differently. And it is the processing that makes a big difference in the taste, aroma, and quality of the finished brew, including the way it can affect your health. The different varieties are Black Tea (in which the fresh leaf is withered by exposure to the air, and is broken and left to ferment after picking), Oolong Tea (in which the withering process is much shorter, resulting in a partially fermented leaf) and the last one is Green Tea (where the leaf is not fermented at all but is steamed immediately after harvesting to stop the fermentation process, then rolled and dried). Green, oolong, and black teas all come from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. What sets green tea apart is the way it is processed.
Health Benefits of Green Tea
Any Harmful Effects?
To date, the only negative side effect reported from drinking green tea is insomnia. This is because the tea contains caffeine. However, the good news is that green tea contains less caffeine than coffee. There are approximately 30 to 60 mg. of caffeine in 6-8 ounces of tea, compared to over 100 mg. in 8 ounces of coffee.
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