Green Tea Seems To Slow Many Diseases & Ailments You Might Have

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Green tea, or Chinese tea, as it is also known, has HUGE health benefits and qualifies as one of our secret health foods.

Sure, you might be a coffee addict like me, but maybe if you drink 3 cups per day, replace 1 of those cups with green tea.

Get decaffeinated, why don't you?

Warning: If you take aspirin, don't consume green tea as it can thin your blood even more, and it might not work great if you are taking medicine for depression or anxiety. But, I think a little green tea never really hurt anyone, so here we go.

Scientists and doctors have known for years the awesome health benefits that drinking green tea regularly can have. Let's go through a few:

• Green tea has been known to reduce cancer risk. Some might disagree, especially when dealing with Asian heritage, but many doctors and scientists say otherwise.
  
  

• "Consuming green tea may help to prevent certain cancers as well as cardiovascular disease. Green Tea contains a class of polyphenols called catechins, most notably, EGCG which has been shown to prevent or slow cancer growth in laboratory experiments and animal studies."-Nutra-Smart.net

• Green tea is packed to the brim with body-strengthening ingredients! What's more, researchers around the world have found many elements are useful for treating many diseases:

  "University of Purdue researchers recently concluded that a compound in green tea inhibits the growth of cancer cells. There is also research indicating that drinking green tea lowers total cholesterol levels, as well as improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol."-The Miracle Of Green Tea

• There are reports of green tea slowing down how fast your brain ages!
  
  
• Green tea is less processed than either black or oolong tea. What health effect does that have on you? It simply means that there is more of the chemical catechins, which is what green tea uses to fight free radicals. Free radicals are cancerous, and dangerous to you. Green tea uses catechins to fight them off.
  
  
• Plus, FitSugar.com says that green tea can lower your blood pressure too!
  

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Tomorrow: Green & White Tea! 

The MASSIVE Health Benefits of Red and Purple Grapes!

Grapes are full of a ton of great health benefits for you. It's hard to imagine so much packed into such a tiny package, but it's true...

Grapes are packed full of a healthy compound called resveratrol.

Huh?

Put simply, reveratrol is found in red wine and also in the skins of red and green grapes. It has been tested in labs to have positive anti-aging effects, as well as anti-inflammatory effects.

And, the French must take a lot of reveratrol because they have lower heart disease numbers than the U.S does, and yet eat quite a lot of saturated fats.


So, if wine is a problem for you, I would take about a cup of red or green grapes, and no more, because their sugar count can be high as well as their cholesterol count. Red wine and grapes also contain positive elements, says the Mayo Clinic:


Let's Talk About Flavonoids! These antioxidants are found in a variety of foods, including oranges, apples, onions, tea and cocoa. Other types of alcohol, such as white wine and beer, contain small amounts, too, but red wine has higher levels.


Eat Blueberries and Peanuts Too!
Ounce for ounce, peanuts have more than half the amount of resveratrol in red wine. The average amount of resveratrol in one ounce of peanuts in the marketplace (about 15 whole) is 79.4 µg/ounce.

In comparison, some red wines contain approximately 160 µg/fluid ounce.^[14] Resveratrol was detected in grape, cranberry, and wine samples. Concentrations ranged from 1.56 to 1042 nmol/g in Concord grape products, and from 8.63 to 24.84 micromol/L in Italian red wine. The concentrations of resveratrol were similar in cranberry and grape juice at 1.07 and 1.56 nmol/g, respectively.^[15]

Blueberries have about twice as much resveratrol as bilberries, but there is great regional variation. These fruits have less than ten percent of the resveratrol of grapes. Cooking or heat processing of these berries will contribute to the degradation of resveratrol, reducing it by up to half. ^[16]

^{-From Wikipedia}

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