Drinking Green Tea Might Prevent Absorption of Cholesterol
Found this fascinating and hopeful article on drinking green tea at E-zine articles.com.
There are many studies being conducted on the effects of drinking green tea and how it can benefit the body. Along with its possible antioxidant qualities, there are also studies pointing to the possibility that green tea can help you maintain and even lower your cholesterol levels.
Cholesterol comes in two forms, ‘good’ or HDL-cholesterol and ‘bad’ or LDL-cholesterol. Doctors are very concerned about the balance of these two types of cholesterol. Ideally, there should be more good cholesterol than bad. Also, there should only be very small amounts of the bad cholesterol in your blood.
Imbalances in your levels of cholesterol can lead to many diseases, one of which is atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a hardening of the arteries caused by damage caused by high levels of bad cholesterol and other factors.
Studies revealed that green tea consumption in rats appears to lower their levels of bad cholesterol and even prevents them from getting high cholesterol when they are on high cholesterol diets. This has significant implications for the use of green tea in humans to prevent high cholesterol and heart disease. There are still more studies and research to be done before researchers can confirm that green tea indeed has such benefits.
Now here’s the rub:
The author of this article is John Stout.
Jon M. Stout is the Chairman of the Golden Moon Tea Company.
You can read more about how the study was conducted, and the positive results it found to drinking green tea and lowering cholesterol here, and keep in mind, the author sells green tea.
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I really enjoy drinking plain green tea and sometimes flavoured with mango or lemon or mint.
Of course the idea that green tea has many benefits is also encouraging. It certainly goes well with our heavy Kuwaiti food. At least I find it so.
I suppose people could conduct experiments on themselves measuring cholestrol levels before and after .
Lady J, maybe just believing green tea is good for you has some effect! 🙂 I also feel more healthy drinking ginger tea and spearmint tea.
the key word here is “MIGHT prevent” !! 🙂
You are right, Abdulaziz!
I think the original article is from a website called GoldenMoonTea.com I tried to paste the original link here but it is too long. Search in google.
I enjoy drinking green tea several times per week. I’m all for anything to empower myself and take control of my health without medication!
Perhaps you can try this greentea hp, you find it usally in kiosk inside malls. in Qatar is in the Villaggio mall. It is a very concentrated tea without the caffeine, but it does wonders for weight loss. It’s an instant tea, has anyone heard about it?