There are many healthy reasons for drinking green tea. It is a simple way to do something you can enjoy and benefit your health at the same time. But did you know by adding green tea to your diet you can lower your cholesterol levels?
There have been studies showing many healthy benefits associated with green tea consumption. There are now studies that show green tea can aid the body's ability to lower cholesterol. By adding a cup of your favorite green tea to your daily diet you can do just that.
A natural, drug free way of lowering out of control cholesterol levels by simply adding green tea to one's diet is becoming a daily practice for many people. It is becoming more popular with practitioners as well as they are beginning to suggest green tea to aid in lowering cholesterol levels.
Research has shown that green tea lowers harmful cholesterol levels and also raises good cholesterol levels.
Studies have shown that by drinking green tea on a daily basis high cholesterol levels can be lowered. Lowering cholesterol is yet another of the numerous healthy benefits of adding green tea to your diet.
Studies conducted on animals have shown that green tea polyphenols may actually prevent cholesterol absorption.
These studies also have shown that green tea polyphenols helped excrete cholesterol from the body. Basically, this is how lower cholesterol levels are obtained when green tea is added to the diet.
Studies have shown people who drink green tea as a daily part of their diet have lower cholesterol levels than those who do not drink any green tea. Reason enough to add green tea to my diet.
Other studies have shown green tea to contain very powerful antioxidants. Green tea has been found to contain epicatechins. They are very powerful antioxidants that lower high blood pressure symptoms. They are also believed to help in cancer prevention.
A study conducted of men who smoke found more revealing conclusions. This study has shown the men who drank green tea daily had lower blood levels of LDL, the harmful cholesterol. Much lower. Epicatechins contained in green tea reduced bad cholesterol almost by half.
In the western part of the world people are just catching on to what people in the eastern part of the world have known for centuries. Green tea can be a cure for many ailments.
Green tea is becoming more popular all around the world.
Now we know that reducing a high cholesterol level is yet another of the many healthy benefits of consuming green tea.
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