Green tea helps slow the age-related decline in brain function seen as declining memory, cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer’s, shows a human study published in the February 2006 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University studied 1003 subjects over age 70, comparing their green tea intake and mental sharpness, using [...]
Can Green Tea Help Prevent Cancer?
In the last ten years, green tea’s cancer-preventive effects have been widely supported by epidemiological, cell culture, animal and clinical studies. For cancer prevention, the evidence is so overwhelming that the Chemoprevention Branch of the National Cancer Institute has initiated a plan for developing tea compounds as cancer-chemopreventive agents in human trials. When confronted with [...]
Lower Cholesterol with Green Tea
Not only have Chinese researchers determined that certain chemicals in green tea lower cholesterol in animals, they’ve figured out how they work. Ping Tim Chan and colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong fed hamsters a high fat diet to raise their triglyceride and cholesterol levels to those of humans. They then fed the [...]
Green Tea May Help Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
In August 2006, a European study, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that tea is a healthier choice than almost any beverage, including pure water, because tea not only rehydrates as well as water, but provides a rich supply of polyhenols protective against heart disease. Now, a Japanese study published in the September [...]
Green Tea Strengthens Bones?
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have shown drinking green tea may significantly increase bone mineral density.Their study, presented at the International Osteoporosis Foundation World Congress on Osteoporosis, Toronto, Canada, June 5, 2006, included 655 women aged 60 years or older. Participants completed a questionnaire about their consumption of green tea, milk, cheese, yogurt, fish, [...]
Green Tea for Weight Loss
Green tea not only promotes fat loss, but specifically, the loss of visceral fat-fat that accumulates in the tissues lining the abdominal cavity and surrounding the intestines (viscera) and internal organs. Unlike fat deposits on the hips and thighs (which result in the so-called “pear” body shape), visceral fat (which produces the “apple” body shape) [...]
