Green Tea

[k o star]

Are you a tea drinker? Have you ever tried green tea? It could help protect you from cancer and also help with things like cholesterol.How good is Green Tea? Pretty good according to experts! Natural Therapist Carolyn White joined Statewide Afternoons to discuss the benefits of drinking green tea.“Green Tea is a tea that’s distinctly different from the ordinary ‘tea’ that we drink. On laboratory examination green tea is found to contain very powerful antioxidants”, Carolyn explained to Fiona.“The major antioxidant that works so efficiently is polyphenol. This is what turns green tea into a medicine tea. We can use it for our healing. It’s another emerging drink that we can safely use to combat different sorts of disorders, from minor to major”.What are the minor disorders that green tea can help?"Green tea has been proven to reduce or inhibit the growth of a bacterium that grows in our mouths. This is a streptococcus bacterium, which is what causes holes in our teeth (cavities) and gingivitis. Gingivitis is where the gums recede back off of the teeth and bleed. Green tea actually blocks the growth of this bacterium, which is lovely to know".“Green tea is also showing signs that it can lower cholesterol levels. Not only the bad ones, which are the LDL the Low Density Lipoproteins but it can overall reduce ALL levels of cholesterol including HDL’s triglycerides etc.”New research is also supporting green tea’s use as a weight-loss aid, in a double-blind study using green tea caffeine and a placebo, only the green tea extract increased metabolism and energy.What are the Major disorders that green tea can help?“It seems that we have a high epidemic of high blood pressure in Australia and a pretty high incidence of cancer as well…but green tea does lower blood pressure so it’s really worth a try.“One of the major things that people have experimented with, regarding green tea all over the world, is to see if it has an impact on cancer. Whether it prevents cancer and whether it helps combat it once it exists and fight it off or get it to go into remission.“There are some very encouraging studies. The study mentioned below* where 35,369 people who drank green tea, were compared to other people who don’t drink green tea, found that those that do, have a lower risk of cancer in the upper digestive tract and in the colon and in the rectum.“In Britain results have come forth, to say the same about the colon, as well as the pancreas and the breast. So these are not just fictional statements, these are studies that can be researched…”How does green tea work?“Most cancer and degenerative heart disease and blood vessel disease (which indicates blood pressure by the way), we believe is caused by harmful molecules which are running around the body called ‘Free Radicals’. “These free radicals damage cells, and it’s through the healing process that things can go wrong.“Now green tea contains antioxidants, and there are antioxidants in many other thing, more commonly Vitamin A, C and E. These are used to neutralise, mop-up, or kill these… ‘free radicals’. If we can neutralise and then get rid of them, they won’t do the damage that can cause cancer and heart disease.”It’s the powerful antioxidant ‘polyphenol’ in green tea, has the ability to inhibit and to stop the action of a particular enzyme that tumours make. “When a tumour is in existence it makes this enzyme and squirts it into the neighbouring cells to damage them, so that the tumour can creep in there.“If we can actually use the polyphenol’s in green tea to kill off – inactivate that enzyme that does that initial attack, then we’re really looking at a situation where we can regress and stop the growth invasion of tumours.”Polyphenol antioxidant ability helps cell DNA to reproduce itself accurately rather than in a mutated form and Chinese medicines from green polyphenols have long been used to treat nephritis, hepatitis and even leukaemia.How many cups of green tea do I need to drink?Through worldwide prolonged experimentation, including one study done by the *American Journal of Epidemiology, which according to Carolyn is a highly reputed magazine, they studied 35,369 women over an eight year period and had certain findings emerge, including how it seems that the beneficial effects of drinking green tea is derived by only drinking around 4-5 cups a day.http://www.abc.net.au/sa/stories/s849298.htm

[pitterpatter]

You've really done your research. Green tea does have a lot of great things going for it. One doctor, Dr. Eric Braverman, recommends that a person drink tea after every meal, green tea being the best type, although he recommends all types of tea, including herb tea. Dr. Maureen Salaman recommends only decaf green tea. Either way, apparently, tea is loaded with good nutrients. Edgar Cayce said that tea is bad for us but then they only had limited types of tea back in his day. Still, he was right about most things and medical science is still discovering how right he was about things. So, as usual, I am a bit divided in my like of green tea or any tea for that matter. White tea is the sprouts of tea. Green tea is the green leaves of tea. Black tea is the fermented leaves of green tea. It's all the same tea. I would think that white tea would be the best for us because it's at it's freshest, youngest stage like sprouts but apparently, fermenting the leaves, brings out some of the nutrients. By that argument, black tea would be the healthiest in sime ways. For years, we've been told that a glass of red wine was good for the heart. Apparently, so is grape juice (even better)without the need for alcohol. Just eating raw grapes would probably be even better. At any rate, I am a tea drinker and I do have a tea after most meals if I'm eating at home but I have all kinds of teas, including green tea. The one I'm drinking now is decaf green tea.

[feaker]

KelYup, it is good for you. But if you read in the small print, you must drink something like eight cups a day to see any benefits. You have green pee too:)Paul

[japaneseprincess]

i love green tea. in Japan, green tea is really green.outside Japan, what shops sell as green tea has light brown colour.green tea's got nearly as much caffeine as coffee, so you cant get to sleep if you drink it late night. rooibos tea is caffeine free, so i drink it in the night time.

[k o star]

Carla, I'm not sure abt other Teas cos I don't know enough... but I enjoy drinking all sorts of Teas too... I love Peppermint Tea...I jsut started getting more into Green Tea cos I recently developed a very strange pain & swelling in my jaw (lasted for a week) & got me very worried (having been a heavy smoker for abt 18 years in the past)... now I drink abt 3 to 4 cuppa Greens each night... & after I started, the swelling immediate subsided lots...Paul... Green Pee?.. Hahahahahah!!! That I find so hilarious... I don't know why!!! =)Ahhh... Taek... I want some of that pure Green green tea!!!The ones in Australia are weak... so weak =(I drink them at night & I still can sleep... they must be weak cos I'm very sensitive to caffeine...I'm gonna look for Rooibos... gonna search for some Japanese shops ard here... if I can find em...Green Tea Rocks yea!!!Epigallocatechin Gallate!!!K

[drew]

I read an article a while back that really clicked with me; a study was done to find out why cultures that ate basically the same foods as Americans consistently showed lower cholesterol rates, at first they thought it was due to drinking teas with their meals, then they realized that any group who drank warm liquids with their foods showed the lower rates.To me, this made perfect sense. Fats condense and harden when cold, it seems the warm liquids help to digest the most harmful of the trash we intake.I say, go for the hot tea.

[cmrmurray]

Jasmine is the king of green tea blends. Try it with your friends.

[davekershaw]

Aug 9, 2009, 1:51pm, cmrmurray wrote:Jasmine is the king of green tea blends. Try it with your friends.Yeah, Jasmine's good!Try Gunpowder Tea, for a bit more body!

[mojobone]

How to make a Limey Basterd:In a rocks glass:rocksthree fingers ginfill with limeaidgarnish with lime slicerepeat 'til all the world's ills are cured-'til morning, at least.Cheers!(well, it ain't tea, but it's green, and you'll feel better)

[davekershaw]

Aug 10, 2009, 5:41am, mojobone wrote:How to make a Limey Basterda Limey Basterd? .... Oh Please! "what a difference an "e" makes"This could take us places we don't want to go!!Let's stick to tea. I like a nice Earl Grey myself!