Another BIG Reason to Drink Green Tea
There are countless opinions across the Internet about the health benefits of drinking green tea.
Here’s one that carries a little more weight because it’s not based on speculation but instead on an 11 year study which was recently published in JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Japanese study investigated the health benefits of drinking green tea revealed some very interesting results. The study found people who drank five cups of green tea per day were 16 percent less likely to die from any cause during the 11-year study than those who drank less than one cup per day.
Green tea contains a long list of compounds that appear to have all sorts of biological effects, from increasing metabolic rate, to being powerful anti oxidants and immune modulators.
Japanese researchers found a correlation between drinking green tea and lower risk of death after following up 40,530 people aged from 40 to 79 for 11 years. None of the subjects had a history of stroke, coronary heart disease or cancer upon entering the study.
Does this mean that your life expectancy will increase if you drink more green tea? Not exactly, but it does mean that you can potentially decrease various risk factors that could contribute to health problems. In short, green tea isn’t going to add any extra years to your life, but it could help to prevent those years from being cut short unnecessarily.
