Drinking Green Tea may prevent cancer, lowers cholesterol
Switching to green tea as an alternative to your usual coffee rendezvous may be the smartest move in your attempt to try something new and refreshing. Its health, going to as far as preventing cancer, would really make you sip your second cup.
“There’s more to green tea than the usual staple on Japanese or Chinese dinners,” says Andrian Lee, creator of Resensa Green Iced Tea.” Its medicinal benefits have been researched, studied, recorded and proven effective since its first cultivation 5,000 years ago. The Chinese have long been using it as treatment for everything, from headaches to depression. The natural healing green tea offers has indeed aided modern science in preventing minor or even fatal illnesses.”
Its more popular cousin, the black tea, is often being compared, but the big difference lies on the antioxidant properties of green tea, which make it so special and beneficial to the human body, and the way it is processed. Research has shown that green tea is rich catechin polyphenols, particularly “epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG” which is said to be the most potent antioxidant ever discovered. Oolong, green and black teas all come from the leaves of Camellia sinesis plant. Black and oolong tea leaves are made from fermented leaves, which results in the EGCG being converted into other compounds that are not nearly as effective in preventing and fighting various diseases. Green tea leaves, on the other hand, are steamed, which prevents the EGCG compound from being oxidized.
“As a powerful antioxidant, EGCG inhibits the production of “urokinase” an enzyme that helps promote cancer growth, without harming healthy tissue. A University of Kansas study revealed that the EGCG antioxidant is 100 times stronger than Vitamin C and 25 times more potent than Vitamin E in protecting human body cells,” explains Dr. Loysa Orense, a medical doctor and avid user of Resensa green iced tea.
Scientist have been providing hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking green tea. The National Cancer Institute has reported that among three natural cancer-preventive substances that were tested, green tea emerged as the only substance that was outstandingly safe. Other substances were believed to be promoting instead of inhibiting free radicals, the potentially harmful substances naturally produced by the body, if taken in high dose.
The 1994 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported that drinking green tea has reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly 60 percent. In a test conducted at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan, researchers were able to reduce the number of tumors using EGCG by 73 percent. The University of Perdue researchers, meanwhile, recently concluded that a compound in green tea inhibits the growth of cancer cells. Another scientific study disclosed that EGCG is effective in improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol, as well as inhibiting the abnormal formation of blood clots.
“It may also come as good news to smokers that drinking green tea may help them reduce the risk of developing lung cancer. Studied have reported that the rate of heart disease among Japanese men was quite low, although approximately 75 percent were smokers. It was found out that the offsetting factor was their daily fix of green tea,” relates Andrian Lee.
Another study conducted by the American Chemical Society in 1991 revealed that smokers who consumed green tea had 45 percent lower risk of cancer than non-tea drinkers. Indeed supporting the paradox that even though Japan has the highest rate of smokers in the world, it has the lowest rate of lung cancer in any developed nation.
Surveys of Asian tea drinkers, meanwhile show that those who consume four to six cups of green tea a day have a lesser chance of having breast, esophagus, liver, lung and skin cancers than those who consume little amount or never drink green tea at all. Another evidence of its efficacy is that it can help weight watchers burn calories. The November 1999 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the result of a study at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where it was found that men who were given the combination of caffeine and green tea extract burned more calories than those given only caffeine or a placebo. Also, drinking green tea everyday may help prevent tooth decay. Its bacteria-destroying abilities, just as it can help prevent food poisoning, can also kill the bacteria that cause dental plaque. Moreover, green tea represses angiotensin II that could lead to high blood pressure, and is also effective in lowering blood sugar.
Lee likewise state that the natural healing benefits of green tea have also been proven effective in other countries. In Germany for instance, researcher believed that green tea enhances chemotherapy. In a study, the EGCG and epigallocatechin (ECG) properties sensitized the colon cancer cells to killing by a cancer drug. The EGCG was believed to be protecting the body against the toxicity of chemotherapy. Of course, its benefits to the skin and as an age defying agent have already been proven and documented.
“Green tea is really a unique drink. It’s anti-microbial (fights bacteria), antimutagenic (prevents mutation of bacteria) and antioxidant all in one. Its high time you refresh your body and protect it against serious illness with just drinking green tea everyday,” concludes Lee.
For order of Resensa Green Iced Tea please call Richard at 829-6781 or 827-4480 or text at 0922-8890-222
Know more about Resensa Green Iced Tea please proceed to http://www.resensa-refresh.com/about-resensa.htm
December 2004 Manila Bulletin
“There’s more to green tea than the usual staple on Japanese or Chinese dinners,” says Andrian Lee, creator of Resensa Green Iced Tea.” Its medicinal benefits have been researched, studied, recorded and proven effective since its first cultivation 5,000 years ago. The Chinese have long been using it as treatment for everything, from headaches to depression. The natural healing green tea offers has indeed aided modern science in preventing minor or even fatal illnesses.”
Its more popular cousin, the black tea, is often being compared, but the big difference lies on the antioxidant properties of green tea, which make it so special and beneficial to the human body, and the way it is processed. Research has shown that green tea is rich catechin polyphenols, particularly “epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG” which is said to be the most potent antioxidant ever discovered. Oolong, green and black teas all come from the leaves of Camellia sinesis plant. Black and oolong tea leaves are made from fermented leaves, which results in the EGCG being converted into other compounds that are not nearly as effective in preventing and fighting various diseases. Green tea leaves, on the other hand, are steamed, which prevents the EGCG compound from being oxidized.
“As a powerful antioxidant, EGCG inhibits the production of “urokinase” an enzyme that helps promote cancer growth, without harming healthy tissue. A University of Kansas study revealed that the EGCG antioxidant is 100 times stronger than Vitamin C and 25 times more potent than Vitamin E in protecting human body cells,” explains Dr. Loysa Orense, a medical doctor and avid user of Resensa green iced tea.
Scientist have been providing hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking green tea. The National Cancer Institute has reported that among three natural cancer-preventive substances that were tested, green tea emerged as the only substance that was outstandingly safe. Other substances were believed to be promoting instead of inhibiting free radicals, the potentially harmful substances naturally produced by the body, if taken in high dose.
The 1994 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported that drinking green tea has reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly 60 percent. In a test conducted at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan, researchers were able to reduce the number of tumors using EGCG by 73 percent. The University of Perdue researchers, meanwhile, recently concluded that a compound in green tea inhibits the growth of cancer cells. Another scientific study disclosed that EGCG is effective in improving the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol, as well as inhibiting the abnormal formation of blood clots.
“It may also come as good news to smokers that drinking green tea may help them reduce the risk of developing lung cancer. Studied have reported that the rate of heart disease among Japanese men was quite low, although approximately 75 percent were smokers. It was found out that the offsetting factor was their daily fix of green tea,” relates Andrian Lee.
Another study conducted by the American Chemical Society in 1991 revealed that smokers who consumed green tea had 45 percent lower risk of cancer than non-tea drinkers. Indeed supporting the paradox that even though Japan has the highest rate of smokers in the world, it has the lowest rate of lung cancer in any developed nation.
Surveys of Asian tea drinkers, meanwhile show that those who consume four to six cups of green tea a day have a lesser chance of having breast, esophagus, liver, lung and skin cancers than those who consume little amount or never drink green tea at all. Another evidence of its efficacy is that it can help weight watchers burn calories. The November 1999 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the result of a study at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where it was found that men who were given the combination of caffeine and green tea extract burned more calories than those given only caffeine or a placebo. Also, drinking green tea everyday may help prevent tooth decay. Its bacteria-destroying abilities, just as it can help prevent food poisoning, can also kill the bacteria that cause dental plaque. Moreover, green tea represses angiotensin II that could lead to high blood pressure, and is also effective in lowering blood sugar.
Lee likewise state that the natural healing benefits of green tea have also been proven effective in other countries. In Germany for instance, researcher believed that green tea enhances chemotherapy. In a study, the EGCG and epigallocatechin (ECG) properties sensitized the colon cancer cells to killing by a cancer drug. The EGCG was believed to be protecting the body against the toxicity of chemotherapy. Of course, its benefits to the skin and as an age defying agent have already been proven and documented.
“Green tea is really a unique drink. It’s anti-microbial (fights bacteria), antimutagenic (prevents mutation of bacteria) and antioxidant all in one. Its high time you refresh your body and protect it against serious illness with just drinking green tea everyday,” concludes Lee.
For order of Resensa Green Iced Tea please call Richard at 829-6781 or 827-4480 or text at 0922-8890-222
Know more about Resensa Green Iced Tea please proceed to http://www.resensa-refresh.com/about-resensa.htm
December 2004 Manila Bulletin
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