Consumed for 5000 years in Asia and England, this drink has been consumed for centuries in the Japanese peninsula and in China, as a drink and ingredient of Chinese medicine.
With our 7 good reasons to drink green tea, you will no longer be able to miss this healthy drink… Here we go!
Green tea will be your ally if you want to burn calories and experience a feeling of satiety. It is composed of 3 very important elements: theanine that stimulates serotonin, a neurotransmitter that aims to send a satiety message to the brain in order to limit snacks and food urges; dopamine, another neurotransmitter that will also promote the hunger-suppressing effect while providing a feeling of pleasure and finally, vitamin C that also promotes the sensation of satiety.
In a process of weight loss, green tea can indeed play a complementary role to dietary hygiene and exercise since it allows to regulate insulin, thus participating in the control of satiety; it also facilitates the oxidation of fats by having a «fat-burning» effect. However, be careful, if you don’t change your eating habits and if you don’t have physical activity, it won’t help you much.
Nothing like a good green mint tea at the end of the meal to stimulate digestion, and especially after a hearty meal! Exit the traditional digestive: in addition to being caloric, it is clearly less effective on digestion than green tea which promotes a faster and healthier digestion also! According to the researchers, the duration of digestion with green tea is about 6 hours compared to more than nine hours for people drinking a digestive!
Green tea polyphenols contribute to oral hygiene. No question of replacing the toothbrush, but its consumption helps to limit the proliferation of oral bacteria! It also helps to combat gingivitis, periodontitis, cavities and plaque. Some toothpastes have thus understood it well, by integrating green tea in their components...
Green tea can prevent skin damage and wrinkles and other signs of aging. A great ally to stay young!
Green tea is not only a drink, it can also be used in cooking and thus awaken your senses, your tastes, your sense of smell. There are a multitude of green tea recipes waiting to be tested. Regarding traditional drinks, there is a wide range of amenities for your tea, so you can add honey, sugar, maple syrup… That’s enough to revive your taste buds !
Green tea is very effective for relaxing, it contains a substance, thebaine which has a positive influence on the brain.
If with all these good reasons to drink it you don’t fall for it… :)