Green tea extract given to lab rats over a 10-week span increased the amount of time the animals could swim before becoming exhausted by as much as 24%.
Green tea’s catechins appear to stimulate the use of fatty acids by liver and muscle cells. In muscle cells, the ability to burn more fat translates into a [...]
A new study shows high doses of the green tea ingredient — known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) — significantly reduced the formation of beta-amyloid proteins in the brains of mice that were altered to develop Alzheimer’s disease. An abnormal buildup of beta-amyloid plaque in the brain is implicated in the nerve damage and memory loss seen [...]
The US Cancer institute has published fact sheet entitled ‘tea and cancer prevention’, the key points are featured below. It seems to refelct very positively that green tea consumption aids cancer prevention.
Tea drinking is an ancient tradition dating back 5,000 years in China and India. Long regarded in those cultures as an aid to good [...]