Are You Drinking Your Green Tea?
March 21, 2007 by Teri Cosenzi
Filed under Bath & Body, Nutrition
Green Tea is a powerful anti-oxidant with great health benefits. Now, I am asking – are you drinking enough Green Tea?
Green Tea is known to:
Cut Your Cancer Risk
Help Your Blood Pressure
Helps Keep Your Memory Strong
Lose Weight
Look and Stay Younger
So, is it the ECGC or the combination of anti-oxidants that help benefit us so. And how much do we really need to drink to reap the benefits of Green Tea? Some experts say 6 – 8 cups a day, while there are some studies that suggest drinking just a 1/2 cup a day reduces your blood pressure.
While the right is answer is obviously unknown, I think that a few cups a day will do the trick.
I drink at least 2- 20 oz. cups of Green Tea (love the Bigelow Green Tea that I use in my Keurig, you know, with the K-cups). It can’t hurt!
Glad that you are enjoying your Bigelow Green Tea! We have some new green tea flavors you might like too (go to the site to buy: http://www.bigelowtea.com)
Thanks for your comment.
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Yah! I take green tea too. I dont believe in the cancer thingy, but yes it does make my skin looks better. So i will keep drinking my green tea from http://www.teacuppa.com for the next 80 years!!!
For something a little higher end, try http://www.ateava.com!
I love green tea too. I also take a liquid vitamin and mineral supplement with green tea in it too.
Maketta – I was taking a Green Teas supplement, but it didn’t seem to have the benefits that I actually feel I get by drinking it.
Thank you for all of the green tea suggestions!
I started to drink green tea recently, and as much as I am trying, I can’t get that great taste from it. Would anyone happen to have any type of extra ingridient, to help it go down? I would deeply appreciate it!
Layla – I am so not a tea person, but I really like Bigelow’s green tea. I use it with my Keurig machine, and I set it to make me an 8 ounce cup. It brews it for me, and then I add an additional 8 ounces of water to it. If not, the tea taste its too strong for me as well.
It is easy to enjoy your green tea, just make it weaker, and be sure to by a light blend.
Thanks for the suggestion Teri, I’ll definatley try it. I also think the tea is way to strong for me, but I kept adding less water, just so I wouldn’t have to drink so much of it, haha. I just hope this works. Oh, and another question, is there a difference if you make it cold? Will you still get the same benefits?
I certainly hope so, Layla. I drink mine cold quite often, and I have been adding a large slice of lemon in with it. It is very refreshing on these (finally) warmer days!
wow, another good tip. Lemon, sounds like it will take another step closer to me actually likeing green tea, haha. I already have some refrigerated now, so, I’ll see what happends. Thanks again Teri!
I hope it is working for you Layla. I just made a large pitcher full of iced green tea, and drink it cold with a slice of lemon. It is so refreshing – and hopefully doing some good for me as well!
haha, same here Teri, Same here.
I have diluted green tea with a gallon of water.
But after discovering antioxidant-rich white tea, I only need to dilute tea with half a gallon of water. White tea is mild and smooth. Get an organic, fair-trade white tea.
I don’t understand how strong black and green teas can appeal to people unless they dilute them with cream and sugar.
I wish that I discovered white tea earlier.