More Green Tea Benefits
 

http://food.yahoo.com/blog/beautyeat...rink-green-tea

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants - long linked with heart protection - would be enough incentive, but wait, there's more! Lots more.

CUT YOUR CANCER RISK
Several polyphenols - the potent antioxidants green tea's famous for - seem to help keep cancer cells from gaining a foothold in the body, by discouraging their growth and then squelching the creation of new blood vessels that tumors need to thrive. Study after study has found that people who regularly drink green tea reduce their risk of breast, stomach, esophagus, colon, and/or prostate cancer.

SOOTHE YOUR SKIN
Got a cut, scrape, or bite, and a little leftover green tea? Soak a cotton pad in it. The tea is a natural antiseptic that relieves itching and swelling. Try it on inflamed breakouts and blemishes, sunburns, even puffy eyelids. And that's not all. In the lab, green tea helps block sun-triggered skin cancer, whether you drink it or apply it directly to the skin - which is why you're seeing green tea in more and more sunscreens and moisturizers.

STEADY YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE
Having healthy blood pressure - meaning below 120/80 - is one thing. Keeping it that way is quite another. But people who sip just half a cup a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension than non-drinkers. Credit goes to the polyphenols again (especially one known as ECGC). They help keep blood vessels from contracting and raising blood pressure.

PROTECT YOUR MEMORY, OR YOUR MOM'S
Green tea may also keep the brain from turning fuzzy. Getting-up-there adults who drink at least two cups a day are half as likely to develop cognitive problems as those who drink less. Why? It appears that the tea's big dose of antioxidants fights the free-radical damage to brain nerves seen in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

STAY YOUNG
The younger and healthier your arteries are, the younger and healthier you are. So fight plaque build-up in your blood vessels, which ups the risk of heart disease and stroke, adds years to your biological age (or RealAge), and saps your energy too. How much green tea does this vital job take? About 10 ounces a day, which also deters your body from absorbing artery-clogging fat and cholesterol.

LOSE WEIGHT
Oh yeah, one more thing. Turns out that green tea speeds up your body's calorie-burning process. In the every-little-bit-counts department, this is good news!

Sounds great!
I thought Green Tea tastes like a bucket of Earth-does it?

Green Tea does NOT taste like a bucket of earth.

Green Tea DOES taste MORE like a bucket of earth than regular teas do but it certainly does NOT taste just like a bucket of earth. :)

Cuz I have been interested in trying it out.
I think I will see about trying it out.

I was asking someone the other day about it.

In all seriousness it isn't bad (not real bad :) )

It (at the risk of quoting your previous post) does have a more "earthy" taste (not as in DIRT) it tastes like what they call it. :) Green tea.

I can drink it... when I am in the mood.

No, green tea is great. And if you like favor try "The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Co's" strawberry cream or Japanese cheery or Moroccan mint

I am interested in the health benefits not taste.

Those are all green teas with flavours??

mmmmmm...., having a cup right now. :)

I prefer loose leaf, but Lipton has some flavored ones out. They have a white tea, which is actually better than green, and a green tea that are flavored.

You can find other brands too that have flavored green teas at the supermarket

yes. Do you have a TCBTL shop near by? They also have a more premium one with Jasmine in it, but I don't care for it that much

It's also good, iced.

ALSO good iced?

I'm from the south... there is no other tea besides ICED tea. :)

A good iced tea, from black tea is Apricot Ceylon or Passion fruit or English breakfast IMO

Green tea is not as strong on flavor as black tea so the iced tea might not be that great to some..

Iced green tea is light and refreshing. Go to your local starbucks or tea house and order it. Even my 8 yr old boy loves it. :thumbsup

??????:dunno

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf company

No sir. We don't have them.

We do however have the second biggest Chinatown on the West Coast after San Fran so finding it shouldn't be a problem.

They might have white tea there too, though the only favor they might have is jasmine...not all green tea needs to be flavored. But some green teas are stronger in flavor than others and even have a musky aroma I don't care for

Does the flavored green tea have just as many health benefits as the plain? I don't like regular green tea.

Yes...it's just green tea with a flavor.

I actually like regular green tea, but then again what's regular (besides Dan Alicea?)? There are many different kinds of green teas just as there are many different kinds of black teas. You have to try them all to see what you like

Earl Grey, hot. If it's good enough for Capt. Picard, It's good enough for me!:yahoo

yes, but his was fake....artificially manufactured by manipulating molecules in the replicator

,the molecules were manipulated to become real, just like as if one went to TCB&TL. BTW, wasn't Praxeas one of the Paclids?:killinme

Nope. But I am sure Arphaxad was one of the smart ones....which isn't saying much :heeheehee

I"m drinking pear flavored white tea at the moment. It smells wonderful and tastes quite nice too.

I have Chinese green tea at home - the leaves - not teabags. You only need a tiny amount to make a pot. It's very good.

Loose leaf. Is the white tea in in a bag or loose? It sounds delicious

The white tea is in a bag ....... it has a green colour but it's labelled "white" tea.

Well White tea is only called that because it's green tea picked early and it has little white wispy hairs on them. Also perhaps it might have green tea mixed in with it and or other products for flavor that give it a pale color.

What brand is it?

When mom was under the weather a week or so ago, I made her green tea w/honey and lemon...she really seemed to feel better after drinking it.

I'm such a good kid!!:heeheehee

Celestial Seasonings. It has a little vanilla mixed with the pear flavouring.

I drink the stuff COLD already made and bottled. I can't seem to get it to taste good when I make it at home.