The benefits of green tea – hotly discussed topic. And not surprising! Tea – a silver medalist among drinks, in its significance and popularity, it is inferior only to water, and the benefits of tea in general, and the benefits of green tea in particular, have long been in doubt, but nevertheless it continues to be studied.
The benefits of green tea: this is the topic of a new eleven -year study of Japanese doctors led by Keriyam Shinichi, a representative of a university school in Sentai Tokhok.
The results of this study, and more than 40 thousand women and men took part in it for 11 years, were published in the magazine “American Medical Association”.
The study of green tea was considered as a way to insure yourself from cancer and cardiovascular diseases, because they are the cause of the number one mortality in the whole world, and the benefits of green tea, sung in millennia, are considered one of the explanations of the long life of the inhabitants of the Japanese islands.
Representatives of the school in Sentai Tokhok came to the conclusion that the benefits of green tea (only a couple of cups per day!) reduces the chances of heart ailments to reduce our lives.
But against cancer, green tea is powerless, although previous studies on animals testified to the opposite.
Speak – “No!”And” Stop!»Plant substances (polyphenols) help with their antioxidant effects with their antioxidant effects. However, the mechanism of work, polyphenols remained incomprehensible and requires further research. It is assumed that they (polyphenols) “turn the key in the ignition lock” of anti -oxidative mechanisms that do not allow a too actively free radical to do their black business – destroy the cells of the body. Also, a hypothesis was formed that they (polyphenols) protect blood vessels from inflammatory processes.
The study began in 1994 in the northeastern region of Japan, in which green tea is “favorite” of 80 percent of the population of which more than 50 percent of more than 3 cups drink per day. The study was attended by the Japanese, the history of the diseases of which did not contain records of strokes, cancer and heart disease, and their age varied from forty to seventy -nine years.
Tea lovers who used it per day of 500 milliliters were dying less often, those who, showing indifference to tea, consumed it a cup of a day. On average, in eleven years, this difference was 16 percent, and in the first seven years the difference was 26 percent.
More effective, in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, green tea helps women, as scientists suggest because they smoke less often.
In general, of all forty thousand participants in eleven years of research conducted by Japanese doctors under the leadership of Keriyam Shinichi, less than one percent died from cardiovascular diseases.