Green Tea And Health

The health benefits of green tea seem to be countless. Studies are showing that this miracle drink has more life-giving properties than we first imagined.

Green tea has been drunk in China and Japan for over 4000 years, and these are two of the healthiest countries in the world. It has only become popular in Britain in the last year or so thanks to the recent health phenomenon led by TV shows like Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat and Jamie Oliver's campaign for more nutritious food in schools for our children.

Green tea is full of antioxidants, which fight off disease-causing free radicals in our body, and as a result can help to prevent life threatening diseases such as cancer, heart disease and other conditions like high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It can also ward off signs of ageing such as wrinkles. Normal tea also has some antioxidants, but green tea has significantly more. It is thought that when we put milk into tea this destroys the antioxidants, but as green tea is not drunk with milk this cannot happen. There is another type of tea on the market called white tea which is believed to have even more antioxidants than green tea.

For anyone watching their weight, green tea is a Godsend as not only does it have NO calories (as it is not drunk with milk or sugar), it also speeds up the metabolism by 4 per cent every time you drink a cup, and can help to combat cellulite. It is low in caffeine so you could try having it instead of your morning cup of coffee or regular tea. It's recommended that you drink up to 4 cups a day.

Green Tea (and white tea) can be found in most supermarkets, and all good health food stores.

Have you ever tried Chinese tea?We love for tea is like you love for coffee.Tea was regarded as one of the seven daily necessities,柴(chai),米(mi),油(you),盐(yan), 酱(jiang),醋(cu),茶(cha)."cha" means "tea"

If you visit a Chinese family, you can be sure of at least one round of Kungfu tea.

What? Kungfu Tea. You might be familiar with kungfu as a martial art. But in Chinese, it means more than this. It means hard work, achievement, skill and free time. Kungfu Tea is the Chinese tea-brewing process that has a little bit of ALL of these meanings.

In this video,I'm trying to show you how to make Kungfu tea.

If Mike and Anna come here, we should try this together.

oh,maybe you and your girlfriend, if you would.