Turbo charge your anti aging diet

Not only is green tea an amazing antioxidant for anti aging health – it’s also a natural active ingredient in anti aging skin care.

Some of the anti aging health benefits of drinking green tea include: protection from cancer, heart disease and dementia, increased weight loss and greater physical stamina.

And it isn’t just myth – these findings are backed up by recent clinical research.

So – if you don’t already you need to start making green tea your anti aging drink of choice.

Green tea is the least processed and most nutrient rich tea there is. In fact – as far as overall health and anti-aging properties go – green tea is up there at the top of the list.

Lack of processing allows green tea to retain its amazing antioxidant power. The antioxidant benefit comes from the catechins in green tea which are more potent free radical scavengers than either vitamin E or vitamin C.

That means if you care about looking younger and healthy aging – you need to be drinking green tea or taking green tea in some form every single day.

The most important of the catechins in green tea is EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) and it is this that experts believe is responsible for most of the anti aging health benefits linked to green tea.

As well as being the most nutrient rich of the teas, green tea has the least caffeine – about half as much as coffee and considerably less than black tea.

Green tea has been the basis of literally thousands of research studies in recent years as scientists have come to understand its power as an antioxidant. Recent studies have shown that green tea:

• Lowers blood pressure – 2 cups a day gives a 64% reduction in risk
• Prevents the spread of prostate cancer
• Protects against all forms of cancer including lung cancer
• Increases survival rates for ovarian cancer

The health benefits of green tea are so obvious and so wide-ranging that it’s surprising it isn’t compulsory.

Green tea also promotes the loss of the abdominal fat which settles in alarming amounts around our middles as we get older. Fat around your middle looks awful but developing an apple shape actually does you harm.

Our bodies store fat through the action of specific enzymes. Studies suggest that the compounds in green tea promote fat loss by stopping these enzymes working and making sure the fat is burned off as energy.

A human study in Japan in January 2005 confirmed that green tea reduces not only body fat but also brings down levels of bad cholesterol at the same time.

The downside of all this nutritional magic – for the real anti aging health benefits to kick in you need to be drinking a lot of green tea. Somewhere around 20 cups of green tea per day will give you the right level of catechins for disease prevention, antiaging and fat loss.

By now most of us will have spotted the problem. Trying to drink 20 cups of anything in a day is a bit of a challenge and – whilst you may get used to it – the taste of green tea isn’t immediately addictive. Not to my tastebuds anyway.

So – probably the best all round option if you’re after the anti aging health benefit is to go for a high quality green tea supplement. There’s a huge range on the market in pill, soft gel or powdered drink format.

Whatever you choose you can be confident you’ve chosen one of the best natural antioxidants for anti aging health and beauty.

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