Drink tea often, drink more tea, and it will help keep the doctor away
Lu Yu wrote in The Classic of Tea: "Tea as a beverage is most suited to people of refined conduct and frugal virtue. If one suffers from heat and thirst, stuffy oppression, headache, gritty eyes, restless limbs, or discomfort in all the joints, taking just four or five sips can rival the finest clarified butter and sweet dew." Tea has many miraculous benefits, and many studies have confirmed this; in fact, most tea lovers who have enjoyed tea for many years have come to firmly believe in its health benefits.
So what exactly are tea's medicinal effects that make it so beloved by people?
Today let us list some of the benefits of drinking tea. Given the limited space, omissions are inevitable, and tea lovers are welcome to offer corrections!
Drinking tea lowers the risk of diabetes
A study from Germany reported that the tea polysaccharides contained in tea leaves have the effect of lowering blood sugar (drinking tea can affect glucose metabolism and prevent blood glucose levels from rising) and lowering blood lipids. Drinking 4 cups of tea a day or more can effectively reduce the risk of diabetes in middle age.
Drinking tea lowers cholesterol levels and high blood pressure
According to a follow-up survey by researchers at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, people who often drink tea have only a 6.95% probability of developing high blood pressure, while those who hardly ever drink tea have a 10.55% incidence of high blood pressure, showing that drinking tea truly has a blood pressure-lowering effect. Another study found that regular tea drinking can gradually bring higher cholesterol levels in the body down to a balanced state.
Drinking tea lowers the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
A latest study reported by the British Daily Mail found that drinking three cups of tea a day can reduce the risk of death from myocardial infarction by 70%. Coincidentally, related research reports from France and Finland also show that drinking two to three cups of tea a day can reduce the risk of stroke. What is most astonishing about tea's pharmacological effects is that research also found that compared with people who drink less than one cup of tea a day, men who drink seven cups or more a day had an average 22% lower risk of death from cerebrovascular disease, and women had a 31% lower risk; likewise, in the risk of death from cerebral infarction, men's risk fell by 42%, while women's fell by as much as 62%.
Drinking tea prevents and treats Alzheimer's disease
Research shows that maintaining the habit of drinking more tea can improve memory and prevent Alzheimer's disease. Drinking tea can effectively delay brain degeneration and protect brain cells, thereby maintaining the healthy state of the brain's blood vessels.
Drinking tea boosts immunity
Research in traditional Chinese medicine found that drinking more than 5 cups of tea a day can effectively improve the body's immunity. This is because tea leaves contain a special chemical substance called alkylamine antigen. As long as you drink more tea regularly, once a disease-causing substance containing this compound invades the body, the body can resist it strongly. Other research shows that the amino acids contained in tea leaves can also improve the body's immunity. So drinking tea every day can effectively prevent influenza, fever and so on.
Drinking tea relieves stress
Compared with the well-known stimulant caffeine, people feel relaxed, calm and comfortable in body and mind when drinking tea. Research has long confirmed that this is mainly due to the sedative effect of theanine contained in tea leaves. Regular tea drinking can undoubtedly relieve the anxiety, irritability, restlessness, depression and stress brought on by life and work.
Drinking tea reduces fat and aids weight loss
Research found that compared with people who hardly drink tea, men who have drunk tea for many years have about 20% less body fat ratio, and women can have 30% less. So for obese people, drinking tea not only provides health benefits but also has a good weight-loss effect.
Other health benefits of tea
In addition, drinking tea can also refresh the mind, clear the head, brighten the eyes, cut greasiness, promote urination, detoxify, aid digestion, prevent tooth decay and so on, making it truly the best healthy beverage of the 21st century.
What else should we introduce?
Tea polyphenols: the most important substance in tea leaves for producing health benefits.
Tea pigments: delay aging and beautify the skin.
Theanine: enhances memory and improves learning ability.
Tea polysaccharides: resist radiation, boost immunity and lower blood sugar.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid: lowers blood pressure, improves blood circulation in the brain and enhances the metabolic capacity of brain cells.
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Learn to drink tea, drink more tea
Drink tea often
Drink it long enough and you become a good doctor
Drinking tea
keeps the doctor away