Day 6: Green Tea

GREEN TEA! My favorite hot drink. I drink this almost every day in the office (because office provides this. HAHA!). However, even if the office does not provide this, I will definitely buy it and drink it everyday in the office. Lucky for me, I am very sensitive to caffeine thus I am unable to drink even a cup of coffee. However, I am able to accept the caffeine level in green tea which can provide me with more health benefits than a cup of coffee.

Superb Antioxidant

As our body ages and be exposed to the external environment, our body will react to these external factors and become oxidized to produce free radicals. These free radicals will then proceed on to "steal" electrons from other molecules so as to stabilize themselves. By doing this, our cells may become even more vulnerable to other forms of attack. This is the same concept as the aging of our skin. Aging due to sun is because the UV rays are able to attack our skin and produce more free radicals which will remove electrons from our cells and thus making the skin vulnerable and thus will aged faster. 

This is the reason why antioxidant have been so popular lately and you can see many different kinds of antioxidant supplements appearing in your local pharmacy or drugstore. Why buy these expensive supplements when you can actually get it cheaply by drinking it?

Green tea contains a large amount of polyphenols, a type of antioxidant, which is known to be able to fight cancer. This type of antioxidant can also be found in apples. However, green tea has the most powerful type of polyphenol known as catechins and not only can this antioxidant able to reduce the chances of having cancer, it can also reduce signs of aging. 

Fats Fighter

As many of us may know, tea in general helps to "clean" the fats out of the gut. The same applies to green tea. It can actually help to reduce the amount of the "bad" (Low Density Lipoprotein) cholesterol in the body by preventing the absorption of these cholesterol into the bloodstream. 

Green tea can also help to increase fat oxidation when coupled with exercise (source). I was pretty surprised when I saw this study. Next time I shall try going exercise after drinking a cup of green tea and see if it does work to reduce the fat percentage in my body. 

Since green tea can help to reduce signs of aging, prevent cancer and to reduce amount of fats, why not starting drinking green tea from now on =)

Bye!

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