Five Benefits of Green Tea to Our Health

Green tea has been an increasingly popular drink. It can be found even in packet and can. Many people at first drink it for health benefit despite dislike the taste. My friend also has told me once that if we don’t want to have hangover after drunk, we drink green tea before we start drinking session. It has the ability to reduce the alcohol effect to our body.

But that just what people said. Let see what the benefit of green tea to our health is.

Weight Control

Many people believes that green tea help them to manage their weight and even help them in journey of losing weight. But how does it help in weight management? Green tea promote weight loss by increasing the metabolism of fats by the liver, inhibiting lipase in the digestive tract and providing a feeling of satiety and fullness. It helps reduce body weight by increasing energy usage and fat oxidation.

Lower Cholesterol

Green tea helps to reduce total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels. It also improves the ratio of HDL to LDL cholesterol. It is believes that green tea reduce our body cholesterol levels by reducing lipid absorption and promoting their excretion.

Lower the Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease And Stroke

By reducing fats and cholesterol level in our body, green tea indirectly helps prevent cardiovascular disease and stroke. The main contributor of cardiovascular disease and stroke is fats, cholesterols and being obese.

Regulating Blood Glucose Level

Green tea is known traditionally use to control blood sugar. By doing so it helps to reduce the risk of having type 2 diabetes. For those who in the pre-diabetic state, regular daily intake of green tea help to lowered the hemoglobin A1c level. That shows the increased body’s ability to utilize blood sugar.

Preventing Hypertension

Green tea help to lower blood pressure thus helps to prevent hypertension. It increases body’s production of nitric oxide which dilates arteries and help reduces blood pressure.

Besides being enjoyed by many for it refreshing and cooling effects, green tea have helped our body in many ways. But what most important is it helps to reduce the major disease that have trouble human all over the globe and have taking so many life. Enjoy green tea and enjoy the benefits it gives to our body.

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