A Guide to Green Tea Extract Benefits The health benefits of green tea have made it a popular drink around the world. While drinking it is a good thing, some people don't even know that extracts are available with all the key benefits and without the few side effects. This is a guide to getting the greatest green tea extract benefits. First, a few facts about the health benefits of tea. (The green kind has much higher levels of polyphenols than black tea, and appears to have much stronger health effects than black tea.) In more than 3,000 published studies, researchers have reported that drinking it... -- Reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in a large population of Chinese men and women by nearly 60 percent. -- Lowered total cholesterol and improved the ratio of good (HDL) cholesterol to bad (LDL) cholesterol. -- Improved the function of the cells lining the circulatory system, called endothelial cells; endothelial dysfunction is a key element of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. -- Blocked the growth of abnormal blood clots -- Contained powerful polyphenols and antioxidants that destroy free radicals, a major cause of oxidation damage and premature aging of the skin and body. Does it have any side effects? Yes, a few. It contains caffeine, though less than black tea or coffee. For most people, this is just a mild stimulant. But many others avoid caffeine because it makes them nervous and shaky, and keeps them from getting normal sleep. It also contains fluorides; in some cases, enough to increase the fluoride level in tea above the maximum accepted in fluoridated drinking water. Perhaps because the decaffeination process can concentrate fluoride levels, at least one decaffeinated green tea was found to contain fluoride levels far above the regular drink. So in conclusion, the benefits of a quality extract should include eliminating both caffeine and fluoride. I drink tea instead of coffee, most of the time. But to get the greatest green tea extract benefits, I take it in a balanced supplement that contains highly purified extract, without the caffeine and fluoride. The supplement contains many other natural antioxidants like lutein, zeaxanthin, bilberry, L-carnosine, and grape extract. Check my website for products that make the most of green tea extract benefits. Kathryn Lane is a health and nutrition researcher. She says the most valuable and effective products she finds are rarely the most expensive or the most advertised. Check out her website: http://www.abc-balanced-supplements.info/

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