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Green Tea Benefits?

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Do you drink green tea? If you are trying to improve your health or drop a few pounds, this ‘super-drink’ deserves your full attention.

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Consumed for thousands of years, green tea has provided delicious medicinal benefits – weight management, disease fighting, energy boosting and stress reducing – to many cultures around the globe. Studies too show that the components found in such a small little teabag can do wonders for your health. If you look at the ingredients list for any fat burning supplement, chances are that green tea will be on there too.

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According to Delhi-based dietician Simrann Saini, green tea can help you lose weight and lower your risk of becoming obese.

"Given that green tea can boost the metabolic rate in the short term, it could help you lose weight," she says.

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So, drink up, because your overall health is about to get a lot better!

Here’s a list of some of green tea's amazing benefits – benefits that you may not have been aware of. Some of these benefits are still being debated, so please do your own research if you want to use green tea for medicinal purposes.

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Benefits of green tea we bet you didn't know!

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A healthy diet is a way of eating that that reduces risk for complications such as heart disease and stroke.

Healthy eating includes eating a wide variety of foods including:

  • Weight loss 

  • Diabetes

  • Heart disease 

  • Healthy teeth 

  • Cholesterol

  • Blood pressure

  • Depression

  • Skincare

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How to drink green tea?

* Green tea may decrease the absorption of iron and folic acid. Therefore it is best to be drink tea between meals rather than using it as your mealtime beverage. Wait 1-2 hours between eating foods rich in iron and folic acid and drinking tea to maximize your absorption of these nutrients

* Pour one cup of boiling water over 100g of Green Tea and leave to infuse for at least 30 minutes.

* Make a paste using this liquid and one teaspoon of baking soda, and use this to brush your teeth as usual.

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