What There is to LOVE About Green Tea

 So just starting off my blog i thought that this would be a great topic to refresh our minds on. We here of how Green Tea is so beneficial to us when we want to lose weight, fight the risk of cancer and other diseases, get energy with minimal caffeine, and so on. I figured since we all heard the talk of it but don't really know WHAT makes this type of tea so good for you that I should write a little about why it is so important to add this tea to our lifestyle.

 While black tea is used from the same plant (Carmellia Sinensis) as green, black tea has been oxidized and therefore has lost all of the vital nutrients that the plant provides. Green Tea though is steamed and withered to provide all of it's antioxidants called catechins. Used for over 4 thousand years by the chinese, green tea has been used like medicine because it was believed to have many healing powers.
  The antioxidants in green tea for one fight the cancerous free radicals from doing harm to your body. It reduces the risk of stroke, cancer, and heart disease, and lowers the "bad" cholesteral LDL and blood sugar levels as well.
  Then there is the poly phenols that burn calories and ramp up your metabolism because they heat up in your body. Also, because of the antioxidants Green Tea is great for fighting free radicals! It is used in many beauty creams and lotions because the benefits that the plant has includes reversing aging skin.
 Not all green tea has these amazing properties though. Buying bottled green tea is just a waste of your money because after being packaged in preservatives and such the nutrients become diluted and don't have any affect anymore to your health. I would recommend just drinking a hot cup of green tea a couple times a day (i drink it morning and night), and if you don't like the taste of it (i've grown to it's flavor, because it is a little bitter but now after drinking it for so long i actually like it) you could add some lemon juice or honey. You can also make ice tea out of it too. Just find what you like and you can let me know what your favorite way to drink it is :)
 So that is all on my rant about green tea. This post kinda seems long but my point was green tea is beneficial to all of us, and incorporating it into our lives will just be like another detox for our body and skin. Hope you enjoyed this and i'll be updating soon!