Western research credits green tea with far more.
Green tea is a soothing yet refreshing and uplifting hot beverage helpful in aiding digestion, easing sugar cravings and restoring flagging energy levels. Studies show green tea may brighten and clear the skin, fight dental cavities, boost immunity, reduce risk of heart disease by lowering blood cholesterol and blood fats and even prevent cancer. Because of its many health and weight loss benefits, green tea has its own section in my upcoming book, The Balance , to be published by Marlowe in August of 2000. Most of these phenols work as antioxidants, compounds that have been shown to slow diseases of aging, including heart disease, cataracts and cancer by slowing oxidation reactions. Antioxidants, also found in fruits and vegetables, prevent cholesterol from doing its damage by keeping it from sticking onto artery walls.