Fight Cancer - Add Black Pepper

Eating black pepper at the same time as drinking green tea can significantly increase the amount of the cancer fighting EGCG absorbed by your body. So, next time you are drinking tea, grind some black pepper.

Feeling under the weather?

Throat sore or scratchy - try sipping some hot green tea with a spoonful of honey and a pinch of red pepper. This mix can soothe an inflamed throat. Red pepper subdues one of the body's pain chemicals, so that you can swallow more comfortably.

Better Together

Add a splash of citrus, such as lemon, orange or lime juice, to your green tea. It helps increase your body's absorption of tea catechines, the powerful antioxidants that can reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

Green Tea Fights Cancer!

Green tea contains EGCG, a catechin that may help to fight cancer in three ways:

1. It may reduce the formation of carcinogens in the body.

2. Increase the body's natural defenses.

3. Suppress cancer promotion.

Green Tea for Lemonade

Make cubes of iced green tea and use to cool lemonade.

Weight Loss

Evidence suggest that drinking green tea may promote weight loss. Though the amount of green tea required to achieve weight loss has not been specified, but the researchers suggest that long-term consumption of green tea may decrease the incidence of obesity.

Did you know... About Tea?

Drinking too much tea is counter-productive. Excess fluoride make spots on the teeth and excess caffeine causes insomnia.

Drinking scalding tea has been linked to cancer of esophagus. A recent Iranian study found that people who drink piping hot tea within 2 minutes after it's poured are 5 times more likely to develop esophageal cancer than those who wait at least 4 minutes for it to cool down. So cool your extra steamy tea!
 

 

Any tea drunk with meals reduces the iron absorption from the food.

Tea and Stomach Cancer

A study in Japan showed that an area with a high rate of drinking green tea had lower rates of stomach cancer. Antioxidant flavonoids in tea can hinder potential cancer causing substances such as nitrosamines associated with smoked food and the residues of nitrate fertilizers.

Green tea has a stronger antioxidant action and less caffeine that black tea.

Green Tea

Green Tea is 200 times more powerful than vitamin E and 500 times more powerful than vitamin C. It provides powerful antioxidants to help repair damaged DNA. It also activates detoxification enzymes in the liver, which helps defend your body against cancer. The normal amount of green tea consumed by the Japanese is abut 3 cups a day.

The active constituents of Green Tea have been shown to reduce the risk of cancers of the stomach, small intestines, colon, and pancreas, as well as lung and breast cancer.