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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Top Five Health Reason to Drink Tea

There are variety of drinks that are out in the market and it is on the consumers' choice on what to buy among them. Some consider the nutrition benefits they can get from it, while others simply depends their choice on the taste of the drink. If you're looking for something to quench your thirst and make your body feel good at the same time, better drink tea. Green, black, plain or mixed with your favorite herb or lemon, however you want to enjoy your cup of tea, it would help you a lot in maintaining a healthy life style.

Tea especially combined with lemon or milk is very refreshing. It gives a nice flavor to our taste buds and therefore makes us feel refreshed and energized. Also, it promotes balance in our body since it helps us in digesting our food. It also provides refreshing feeling inside our stomach. It also hydrates our body because of its antioxidants content.

Also, tea ingredients can help our mind and body relaxes while drinking it. At the same time, it decreases the effect of certain stressful event in our mind. It contributes to eases irritability, weariness and even nervous tension.

Aside from the refreshing taste that it offers, it can also help in dieting. It contains catechins which are fat blockers and fat burner. It reduces the absorption of fats in our body. At the same time, it eliminates fats and other foods. It burns the fats that are in our body and helps in maintaining a healthy and fit body. Also, it increases metabolism in our body thus help in losing weight.

Fibers from tea can also help prevent cancer. Tea contains flavonoids which are responsible for eliminating or inhibiting cancer from growing inside our body, thus preventing us from certain kinds of cancer. Aside from cancer, it also helps in preventing heart attack, cardiovascular diseases, strengthen immune system of our body, and reduces the risk of high blood pressure.

Since tea came from natural fiber, and does not contain any artificial ingredients, it is also eco friendly. Therefore, it does not contribute to the sickening of our nature.

Teas are not just a certain kind of fluid that washes away your thirst. It does not bring any cancer causing agents or any artificial flavorings in our stomach. Thus, it has many health benefits, which gives us more reason why we should drink tea.

About The Author

K.J. Castro has been with Benson Rapid Integration Corporation as a website manager for over a year, and has successfully brought very good management for the improvement of the website and increasing customers. Our store is at http://www.castirontea.com and offers tea products from cast iron teapots to Japanese teas. You can find high quality, durable and stylish cast iron tea-wares. Our products are made of cast iron that is popular for being sturdy and long-lasting.

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Friday, June 17, 2011

8 Benefits of Drinking Tea

Many of the world's cultures have long known about the benefits of drinking tea. Some cultures though are just beginning to realize this. Are you are tea drinker? Do you know how you can be helped by drinking tea? If all you have known is just enjoying the flavor of a hot cup or cold glass on a summer day, read on to find out some of the benefits you will find from drinking tea.

Eight Important Reasons to Drink Tea

1. Tea contains the antioxidants which fight off the free radicals that cause damage in your body. All have these to a certain extent. However, white and green tea has more than black does. When free radicals are left to wreak havoc in your body they can cause many problems to happen including cancer.

2. A cup of tea has far less caffeine than coffee does. This means you can drink more in a day without over doing it than coffee. A cup of coffee has about 100mg of caffeine. Whereas the black tea has about 50mg or less of caffeine, green tea has about 30mg or less of caffeine, and oolong is 35mg or less of caffeine in a cup. You can even get decaffeinated if you want to completely eliminate caffeine.

3. Black tea can help reduce how much cortisol (a stress hormone) there is in the body. This helps you react to stressful situations more effectively.

4. Green and black teas have been shown to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in the digestive system as well as other systems of the body. The scientists believe it is the polyphenols contained in it that are partially the reason.

5. Tea gives your immune system a boost so you can keep from getting various diseases or fight them off more easily. So if you have a sluggish immune system try some tea to see what happens.

6. Tea has anti-inflammatory qualities. You can place a cool tea bag on your eyes even to reduce puffiness that comes with a lack of sleep sometimes.

7. There have been studies done that prove that drinking tea each day lowers the risk from dying from a heart attack by a whopping 44 percent. This was by drinking 3 or more cups daily. This is because tea contains myricetin, kaempferol, and quercetin which are all flavanoids. In fact, drinking only 1 1/2 cups of tea daily has shown to lower the risk of having a heart attack by 40% compared to people that do not drink it.

8. Tea is a great digestive aid. After eating a meal, have a cup of tea to help your stomach digest your food more effectively. It can be used for relief of stomach cramps too.

These are just some of the benefits from drinking tea. It has been drunk for centuries in various parts of the world. If you are not a tea drinker right now, you should really become one so you can enjoy the advantages of consuming it.

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Rich Niccolls has been the editor for the Oolong Tea Bags website for more than a year now. One of my personal types that I like is using Oolong Tea Bags, as opposed to loose leaf tea for the ease and convenience of it.

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