Green Tea Health Benefits

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My Migraine Saga

I’ve been having daily migraines for 2 years now, they started off less frequent and less severe and got to the point of being daily, i switched to Decaf (coffee) and it helped for a while. Then one day, i started getting them daily again. I’ve had an MRI, nothing sinister only migraine activity (alhamdolillah) so, preventative and relief is all that can be done.

I lost my health insurance and so pharmaceutical preventative medication is out of the question – even if i did want to try that.

What’s next? Herbs and Homeopathics.

I decided to look for a herbal tea or supplement before moving on to homeopathic remedies (call me a hippy if you must – you won’t be the first)

I looked up herbs and found that Feverfew has been shown to have a positive affect on migraines. Lavender is also said to be good for migraine sufferers.

In the mean time

I decided i wanted to give up decaf, at 99.7% caffiene free, it wasn’t causing my migraines, but it still isn’t great for the health and it did make me feel a little groggy.

Enter Green Tea (with Mint)

I googled to see if it had any affect on migraines (positive or negative) and found that for some people, it helped relieve their migraines and for some it was a trigger. I decided to take it slow (with coffee, 1 cup is enough to give me a good 3 day migraine) -no migraine- i drank more -no migraine- i started having migraine free day after migraine free day, i started slowly losing weight, i started drinking the dreaded WATER (bleh) in healthy quantities, i started feeling better… i started falling in love, with Green Tea (sweetened with honey, a natural sweetner with great many health benefits of it’s own)

The benefits of Green Tea (in quotes and links)

To sum up, here are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful:

• cancer
• rheumatoid arthritis
• high cholesterol levels
• cariovascular disease
• infection

• impaired immune function

Green tea can even help prevent tooth decay! Just as its bacteria-destroying abilities can help prevent food poisoning, it can also kill the bacteria that causes dental plaque. Meanwhile, skin preparations containing green tea – from deodorants to creams – are starting to appear on the market.

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This is the list of benefits of green tea which I’ve found during my research.

1. It is used to treat multiple sclerosis.
2. It is used for treatment and prevention of cancer.
3. It is used to stop Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
4. It is used to raise the metabolism and increase fat oxidation.
5. It reduces the risk of heart diseases and heart attacks by reducing the risk of trombosis.
6. It reduces the risk of esophageal cancer.
7. Drinking green tea inhibits the growth of certain cancer cells, reduces the level of cholesterol in blood, improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol.
8. It is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular diseases
9. It is used to treat impaired immune function. .
10. Some researches show that, drinking green tea regularly may help prevent tooth decay by killing the bacteria which causes the dental plaque.

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