Green tea has long been used in the Asian Culture as a traditional practice, a ritual that occurred after every meal. Nowadays, people continue to drink green tea and this rather regularly due to its health benefits. Here are ten top reasons why people drink green tea, and why you should drink it too!

Green Tea Facilitates Digestion

People generally drink green tea after meals to facilitate digestion. It allows nutrients to be digested faster and accelerates absorption.

Green Tea Promotes Oral Health

Green tea is a natural cure for halitosis and a potent tooth cleanser. Drinking green tea gives one a fresher breath, and the antioxidants present in green tea can help in fighting the bacteria responsible for bad breath, plaque deposition and dental caries.

Green Tea Facilitates Weight Loss

Countless researches and personal experiments have proven that green tea could assist in weight loss. In fact, green tea causes fat burning by stimulating the use of fats as a source of calories instead of glucose. This increases the overall body metabolism and promotes thermogenesis (heat production following fat burning).

Green Tea Maintains Blood Glucose Levels

This is surely an advantage for diabetics. Green tea is able to stimulate insulin production, and the hormone is activated in case of high blood glucose (following a meal, for example).

Green Tea Controls Blood Pressure

Green tea has been proven to decrease blood pressure. How is that effect achieved? The flavonoids present in green tea have an antioxidant and a vasodilator effect, making them the most important ingredients for blood pressure regulation in this setting.

Green Tea keeps You Younger, For Longer

Who would have thought that drinking green tea was one of the secret to stay young? In reality this is no magical discovery, it’s just the fact that green tea can slow down the aging process, and this once again is achieved through the action of green tea antioxidants. They protect cells from chemical damage and promote cellular renewal, thus ensuring that a new set of cells develop to replace the old ones. This happens on the skin and in the internal organs (intestinal epithelium) as well.

Green Tea Protects The Skin

Regular consumption of green tea can protect the skin from ultraviolet damage, researches have demonstrated. Furthermore, some researches performed at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) showed that out of a set of human skin tumors treated with green tea extract, 40% of the tumors disappeared and 30% visibly shrunk in size. This attests of the amazing effects of green tea in managing some types of skin tumor.

Green Tea Lowers the Cholesterol Level

According to a report published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, daily consumption of green tea could help reduce bad cholesterol levels and improve HDL level. This is probably attributable to the fact that the catechins present in green tea prevent the absorption of cholesterol, and simultaneously increase the production of good cholesterol.

Green Tea Strengthens Bones

Drinking green tea improves bone mineral density and reduces the risk of osteoporotic fractures.

Green Tea For The Prevention of Parkinson and Alzheimer Diseases

Finally, green tea also plays an important role in preventing – or even delaying – Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases. This is due to the fact that green tea’s antioxidants neutralize the oxygen free radicals responsible for cellular damage and genetic (and enzymatic) modifications responsible for the onset of those diseases.

So go green, and don’t hold back on how healthy you can be.