Green Tea Diet Benefits And Disadvantages
Sunday, May 31st, 2009There is caffeine in green tea so for all the other benefits claimed if you avoid caffeine then it may not be your cup of tea. Green tea is no different so if you have conditions where caffeine might affect you in a negative way you might be wise to avoid it. Changes to your diet may bring complications so if you have any health concerns you should consult with your doctor and be advised by them.
What are the benefits of green tea for dieting and why should we consider drinking green tea? One very bold claim made for green tea is that it could be an aid in the fight against Alzheimers disease and if this proves to be true it would be wonderful news. According to reports of a study in the UKchemicals that attack the brain are inhibited by some of the ingredients in green tea.
Keeping flu at bay is one of the claims made by green tea drinkers and their experience suggests it does help. There are some of the opinion that by drinking green tea you help encourage the gamma-delta T cells to increase your immunity to flu and other similar viruses. You can find one remarkable ingredient within green tea. This is supposed to trigger those T cells to secrete a remarkable 10 times their normal output of virus-battling interferon.
Some people gargle with green tea in the belief that this coats their oral membranes with one of the beneficial ingredients of green tea. This is the catechins, and these are believed to be what successfully neutralizes the vicious virus.
Including green tea in a normal diet has enabled some people to enjoy significant weight loss. It is thought that green tea may help increase the body’s metabolic rate and has even been suggested that it helps with the oxidization of body fat. Remarkably, it appears to do this while not increasing heart rate. It can be damaging to the heart if it can’t cope with an increased heart rate so if this is true and heart rate is not increased that could be very significant.
The balance of energy for your body has you consuming energy in food and burning it off in heat and exercise so when you use more energy than you consume you lose weight. This would mean that green tea diets give a big help for those who struggle to reduce their weight by other methods.
One more thing that we should not forget about green tea is that it is a very enjoyable drink to consume. Green tea is a very enjoyable drink so you may not care about the claimed health benefits but you will still enjoy drinking it.
