The Health Benefits of Green Tea

There is no nice or easy way to say this - If you are eating a "Standard American Diet", you are headed towards obesity, diabetes and a premature death.

The best thing to do is to radically change your lifestyle and to eat real food, which means plenty of organic produce, wild caught fish and grass fed meats.

If you change your diet or not, here is some good news!

A new study examining EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) in green tea, has determined it may counteract some of the ill effects of eating a standard American diet, which is high in unhealthy fats, sugars and processed foods.

Of course, if you are eating a healthy diet, green tea can bring you a few notches towards living past 100.

The antioxidant catechin, can help prevent heart disease and oxidative stress, improve skin, promote exercise recovery and help prevent high blood sugar and has even more benefits

Study author Xuebo Liu explains:

"Green tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after water, and is grown in at least 30 countries. The ancient habit of drinking green tea may be a more acceptable alternative to medicine when it comes to combating obesity, insulin resistance and memory impairment."1

1. Health benefits range from promoting heart, liver and brain health to improving your skin and reducing your cancer risk.

2. Green tea is high in EGCG, which may reduce oxidative stress by fighting cell damage caused by free radicals.

3. Benefits exercise and recovery beyond exercise as it can reduce cellular damage and delay muscle fatigue and provide enhanced antioxidant protection and exercise performance.

4. Protects your brain from Alzheimer's and dementia, decreases heavy metal toxicity, improves memory and increases brain function.

5. Helps with weight loss due to the combination of catechins and caffeine, regulating thermogenesis hormones.

6. May reduce your cancer risk, as EGCG helps balance cell production and death, and may lower risks of prostate and breast cancers.

7. Improves skin, including dermatitis, rosacea, warts, skin aging and acne, improves elasticity, reduces sun damage.

8. Helps lower blood sugar by enhancing insulin sensitivity and regulating blood sugar production and decreasing fasting blood sugar levels.

9. Benefits liver function by reducing inflammation from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), liver enzyme levels and fat content, and inflammation.

10. Antioxidants promote heart health by reducing blood fat levels, blood pressure, inflammation and triglycerides, and burns more calories.

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