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Reasons to Drink Green Tea

Some healthy reasons to start drinking green tea, and it's delicious.

CUT YOUR CANCER RISK
Several polyphenols - the potent antioxidants green tea's famous for - seem to help keep cancer cells from gaining a foothold in the body, by discouraging their growth and then squelching the creation of new blood vessels that tumors need to thrive.

SOOTHE YOUR SKIN
Got a cut, scrape, or bite, and a little leftover green tea? Soak a cotton pad in it. The tea is a natural antiseptic that relieves itching and swelling.

PROTECT YOUR SKIN
Green tea applied directly to the skin (or consumed) helps block sun-triggered skin cancer.

STEADY YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE
Having healthy blood pressure is one thing. Keeping it that way is quite another. But people who sip just half a cup a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension than non-drinkers. Credit goes to the polyphenols again (especially one known as ECGC). They help keep blood vessels from contracting and raising blood pressure.

PROTECT YOUR MEMORY, OR YOUR MOM'S
Green tea may also keep the brain from turning fuzzy. It appears that the tea's big dose of antioxidants fights the free-radical damage to brain nerves.

STAY YOUNG
The younger and healthier your arteries are, the younger and healthier you are. So fight plaque build-up in your blood vessels, which ups the risk of heart disease and stroke, adds years to your biological age (or RealAge), and saps your energy too.

LOSE WEIGHT
Turns out that green tea speeds up your body's calorie-burning process too.

Contributed by Derek Abing on March 7, 2008, at 00:40 AM UTC.

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