Green tea - benefits?

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• 1 StupidKupid // Feb, 2008

  Drink Decaffeinated Green Tea. Problem solved. Try Lipton Decaff.

• 2 MattieP // Feb, 2008

  I think they do! The negative effects of caffeine tend to be short term and mild in small doses (as you'd receive with a cup of green tea) whereas the benefits are long-term

• 3 angel // Feb, 2008

  i drink green tea all the time. it is good for your metabolism, i have an under-active thyroid and i find my body is in tune with me now, where as before i would not know when i would go for a no.2 or how it would be?? i am as regular as clock work now!! green tea is also good for your heart, low risk of heart disease
  i used to drink alot of coffee, and i always had the need of a wee nap in the afternoons and i dont find i am so tiered now

• 4 HelpSaveKeitonLookAtMy360Page // Feb, 2008

  To sum up, here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful:

  cancer
  rheumatoid arthritis
  high cholesterol levels
  cariovascular disease
  infection
  impaired immune function

  To date, the only negative side effect reported from drinking green tea is insomnia due to the fact that it contains caffeine. However, green tea contains less caffeine than coffee: there are approximately thirty to sixty mg. of caffeine in six - eight ounces of tea, compared to over one-hundred mg. in eight ounces of coffee.

• 5 rob // Feb, 2008

  more healthy for you!

• 6 J J // Feb, 2008

  Green Tea can reduce your blood cholesterol. And help to maintain your body weight. Its a good beverage if you are on a diet.

  Lets say you are a junk food lovers (McDo, or other fast food) after you eat a big mac, by drinking a cup of hot green tea, it may neutralize the cholesterol from the big mac, i read in an article on health magazine, but i forget what's the be magazine's name. I'll inform you later.

• 7 The Travelling Gourmet // Feb, 2008

  Tea has no caffeine. Green tea has anti cancer benefits proven by Japanese researchers.

• 8 lulet99 // Feb, 2008

  There have been many studies on the benefits of green tea - in particular the idea that green tea consumption can prevent cancer. A lot of these studies have shown that green tea can help to prevent certain cancers (especially prostate cancer), but you have to consume a lot of it. These web sites have some interesting information:

  http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/tea

  http://prostatecancer.about.com/od/riskreducers/a/greentea.htm

  The second one says you need to drink about 14 cups a day to see much benefit.
  As for the negative effects of caffeine; Green tea contains less than half the caffeine that black tea does.

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