Drink green tea for improved health and long life. Age old drink of the east is getting popular in the west. Here is why

1. Green Tea
Drink to Your Health
Is this the Elixir of Life
One sip of this drink and your youth returns?

2. Green Tea – Drink toYour Health
One sip of this drink and your youth returns!
Unfortunately, this does not exist.
What if there was a drink, if taken a couple times
a day, will improve health and help you lose
weight.This is no magic potion, but an age-old
beverage, you should now be drinking.
It is Green Tea.

3. Green Tea – Drink toYour Health
If you haven't yet heard, green tea offers a wide variety of health benefits.
Have you ever noticed that you can often find green tea or its extracts being
sold near other weight loss products or added to health related products?
That raises the questions of why are they there, and do they really work in
helping people lose weight?

4. Green Tea – Drink toYour Health
You will see that green tea does
have some pretty impressive
benefits; not only on how much you
weigh, but on your overall health as
well.
Ancient cultures have been aware of
these properties for ages, but it is
only recently that Western medicine
and science have started to see how
much this unassuming plant can do.

5. Green Tea – Drink toYour Health
As a whole, people are more
overweight than ever.
It wouldn't really be that big of a
deal if obesity wasn't a risk factor for
a whole host of other health
problems.
Lately there has been some buzz
surrounding green tea weight loss.

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Not only is there more and more anecdotal evidence about how wonderful
green tea is, but the scientific and medical communities are also adding
their stamps of approval to the mix.

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Green tea has been consumed by people for
centuries, most likely dating back to
prehistoric times.
It is believed that the Chinese first cultivated
green tea some 4,000 years ago.They are
fond of using herbs and herbal remedies and
rely on green tea.They may not have
understood why green tea worked, but they
were able to easily see the results.
There are some ancient documents that
mention green tea as being used to treat
food poisoning, aid digestion and ease the
pain of headaches.

8. Green Tea – Drink toYour Health
GreenTea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant; an evergreen shrub or small
tree which grows in tropical and subtropical regions.
Leaves, including terminal bud and young leaves, are dried in the sun or well
ventilated room.This is a process called oxidation.Tea collected with little
oxidation is green tea. If allowed to continue and manually rolled or curled, it
darkens and becomes black tea.There are many ways to process tea and many
confusing terms. However, just keep in mind, green tea is the least processed and
highest levels of beneficial antioxidants.

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Related studies on green tea show that you will have a healthier life when
you drink green tea because the antioxidants in the tea help clean up the
damaging free radicals that are within a person’s body.

10. Green Tea – Drink toYour Health
Today, scientists know a lot more about
what makes tea tick.
Among the main compounds found in
green tea are catechin polyphenols, an
antioxidant that packs a wallop. It has
been shown to reduce the formation of
blood clots, kill or inhibit some cancer
cells and lower bad cholesterol.
Drinking green tea is like opening up a
medicine chest provide by Mother
Nature herself.

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Green tea contains caffeine.While it contains much less caffeine than
the same amount of coffee, those who are sensitive to it may have to
find caffeine-free green tea.
Most people don't feel the same effects as they do from coffee; meaning
you probably won't feel jittery or too hyped up.

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Green tea has an amino acid called theanine which has been shown to
inhibit the enzymes that digest and store fat.
Theanine, uncommon in the diet, acts as a relaxing agent without
sedation.

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Benefits of Green Tea

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Weight Loss
Green tea helps with weight loss by reducing how much
cholesterol and fat the body absorbs, helps you feel fuller
and increases metabolism.
Green tea may not only reduce the appetite through
the regulation of blood sugar levels, but the
polyphenols may help as well.
Polyphenols help decrease the amount of leptin which
increases hunger.

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Heart Health
There is evidence that the compounds in green tea work to lower
the absorption of cholesterol in the intestines.

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Diabetes
One of the many green tea
benefits is the teas ability to
regulate and control a person's
body of sugar absorption.

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Liver
Another of the green tea benefits is
the ability of the tea to flush toxins
from the body.The main organ in your
body that filters toxins is your liver.
Green tea allows cleanup of a
person’s liver through the absorption
of heavy metals and other toxins that
are in your blood and then pass
through the liver.

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Relax
It is not just about the chemicals in
the green tea.When you relax and
take sips of green tea and stare off
into space, it helps to calm your mind
and in thought collection.
Though not as obvious, this is one of
the many green tea benefits.

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How to drink GreenTea
Tea leaves. This is the way most people take their green tea.You
take some green tea leaves (stems are okay, too) and steep them in
hot water. the longer you steep them, the more flavor, and health
giving nutrients you'll extract from the leaves. Once it is steeped to
your liking, strain out the leaves and sip at your leisure.

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How to drink GreenTea
Matcha.This is the entire tea plant, with all of its nutrients left
intact, but it is finely ground.This is a high quality product and it can
be a bit pricey. But as it has all parts of the tea plant, it will get the
most value for your money.

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How to drink GreenTea
Green tea pills. Take all of the healthy
compounds found in green tea and put
them into the form of a pill.This can sound
appealing and is convenient as there is no
need to wait for the tea to get done
brewing, and it can be cheaper than high
quality green tea powder. If you want to try
these pills, be sure to get them from a
supplement maker that you trust.This will
help ensure you are really getting what they
say you're getting.

22. Green Tea
Drink to Your Health
Is this the Elixir of Life
One sip of this drink and your youth returns?
You receive so many benefits from only
drinking a few cups of tea a day.
Make this a habit and you will be sure to see
those extra pounds start to come off.
You should talk to your doctor before making any changes to your diet. Finally, none of the information in this presentation is meant to be
medical advice of any kind. Always consult with your doctor and follow their advice.

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