Nutritional Health Supplements Guide

The Benefits of Drinking Green Tea

The population of Japan and China have been drinking Green Tea for as long as they can remember and quite probably longer than that. Why? Because they know, and have known for a very long time that this wonderful drink; harvested from the leaves of the Camillia Senensis, a flowering evergreen bush indigenous to south China, but now cultivated world wide, is good for your health.

Only recently has Green Tea began to take hold in the west and there is now enough anecdotal and scientific evidence to suggest that historical Asian culture knows what it is talking about. Green Tea Benefits are indeed far reaching. In fact it is claimed that regular consumption of green tea will help from everything from bad breath to preventing cancer. Such claims seem outlandish, but there is some scientific basis at work here.

Green tea is very high in what is known as anti-oxidants. Now we consume anti-oxidants every day in our natural diets, providing we eat healthy things like fruit and vegetables, but scientists believe that green tea contains as much as 8 times more anti-oxidants as an average portion of fruit.

Without getting too technical Anti-oxidants act against something called ‘Free Radicals’; rogue atoms within the human body which damage cells and contribute to ageing and disease. On that basis then it it very easy to understand and believe that a drink which contains a higher concentration of anti-oxidants (and indeed Vitamin C) than the major fruit and vegetables we consume daily simply has to be good for you.

Why Green Tea though? Why not the regular tea we’ve drinking with milk since our palates were mature enough to appreciate it? Well that sort of tea has been through a process called oxidisation, which tea manufacturers use to give different flavours and richness to the tea, unfortunately this has the effect of reducing the number of anti-oxidants present and therefore reduces the health benefits.

So there you have it; on the face of there is no reason to not drink green tea. I know I do.