There are seven wonderful things about green tea that you may or may not have known. Regardless, here are
1. 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.
2. Soothe Your Skin: Got a cut, scrape, or bite, and a little leftover green tea? Soak a cotton pad in it.
3. Protect Your Skin: In the lab, green tea applied directly to the skin (or consumed) helps block sun-triggered skin cancer, which is why you’re seeing green tea in more and more sunscreens and moisturizers.
4. Steady Your Blood Pressure: People who sip just half a cup a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension than nondrinkers. Credit goes to the polyphenols again (especially one known as ECGC). They help keep blood vessels from contracting and raising blood pressure.
5. Protect Your Memory or Your Mom’s: Aging 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.
6. Stay Young: About 10 ounces a day, deters your body from absorbing artery-clogging fat and cholesterol.
7. Lose Weight:Turns out that green tea speeds up your body’s calorie-burning process.