Benefits of drinking tea for the body
Tea is the healthiest drink in the world. Many people love to drink tea, and they value its health benefits.
Drinking tea for a long time can achieve the following 7 benefits.
1, Drinking tea for a long time has the effect of beauty and skin care
Drinking 2 to 3 cups of tea a day can maintain sufficient tea polyphenols in the body. You may not be aware of the process of anti-oxidation and free radical scavenging in the body, but maintaining the habit of drinking tea every day will make you stay young and beautiful without knowing it.
Tea can resist ultraviolet rays and other ionizing radiation.
2, Drinking tea regularly can help you lose weight
Many women who love beauty love to drink tea for its slimming and weight-loss effects.
Catechins prevent obesity by inhibiting digestive enzymes in the intestines and reducing the absorption of carbohydrates and lipids by intestinal tissues; tea polyphenols fight obesity by inhibiting fat deposition in the body and promoting the decomposition of excess fat.
Look at your friends who often drink tea, and you will know that people who drink tea regularly are almost not fat.
3, Long-term tea drinking has a deep detoxifying effect
Chinese people have always had the tradition of drinking tea to treat abdominal distension, dysentery, and indigestion.
The active ingredients in tea can inhibit the growth of harmful microorganisms in the human stomach and intestines while promoting the growth and reproduction of beneficial bacteria. It has long been a "good medicine" for nomadic people to regulate the stomach and intestines.
The unique probiotics and tea polyphenols, catechins and other ingredients in tea can not only promote human metabolism, have a special purification function for internal organs, but also absorb harmful substances in the body and excrete them out of the body.
4, Long-term tea drinking can prevent "three highs"
Long-term tea drinking can prevent the "three highs", namely, high blood pressure, high blood lipids and high blood sugar.
Tea polyphenols can inhibit the rise of liver cholesterol and play an important role in fat metabolism; catechins have a certain antihypertensive effect, and it is recommended to drink green tea with a high catechin content; and the most obvious effect of tea polysaccharides is to reduce blood sugar concentration.
However, friends who are already "three highs" need to pay attention to drinking tea according to the doctor's advice and avoid drinking strong tea.
5, Long-term tea drinking has the effect of "three resistances"
A 300 ml cup of tea has the same antioxidant effect as 1.5 bottles of red wine (about 750 ml per bottle), 12 bottles of white wine, 4 apples, 5 onions, and 7 glasses of fresh orange juice.
Tea has the benefits of "three resistances", namely anti-cancer, anti-radiation, and anti-oxidation. Research by Professor Nicolas Tangshan of the Paris Preventive Medicine Center in France shows that compared with people who do not drink tea, the risk of death for tea drinkers can be reduced by about 24%.
A large number of studies have shown that tea polyphenols are a natural, non-toxic antioxidant. Because it has biological activities such as scavenging free radicals and anti-oxidation, it has good effects in antibacterial, antiviral, and prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
6, Long-term tea drinking has anti-aging effects
Tea polyphenols can be divided into four categories: flavanols (catechins), anthocyanins (anthocyanidins and anthocyanidins), flavonoids (flavonoids and flavonols), acetic acid and acetic acid.
The effects of tea polyphenols are multifaceted. It is a strong antioxidant that can effectively remove free radicals in the body.
Among them, anthocyanidins can inhibit the full-stage overflow of oily peroxides, and this ability can reach more than 10 times that of vitamin E, thereby alleviating cell degeneration and ageing.
7, Long-term tea drinking has the effect of prolonging life
Genes determine 10% of life span and 90% of lifestyle.
A survey of centenarians' living habits found that 40% of centenarians' secret to longevity is their lifelong love of tea, and 80% of centenarians have the habit of drinking tea.
From the literal meaning of "tea", the grass radical represents twenty, and the lower part is eight and ten, and the left and right strokes are another eight, which adds up to 108 years. Therefore, some people call those who can live long by drinking tea "tea-long".
The tea itself contains organic compounds such as tea polyphenols, caffeine, catechins, and a variety of vitamins, which can reduce the risk of disease, improve immunity, and resist ageing.
What kind of tea is suitable for different groups of people?
Knowing that drinking tea has so many benefits, but tea cannot be drunk randomly, and words cannot be said randomly, let's take a look at what tea is suitable for different groups of people.
① Green tea is the best choice for drunk people
Green tea is unfermented tea, which retains the natural substances of fresh leaves. It is cold in nature and has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, so it can help drunk people quickly excrete alcohol. (Note: You cannot drink alcohol immediately after drinking. It is suitable to eat fruits after drinking and then drink some light tea to help sober up)
Drinking green tea regularly can resist radiation, whiten, keep the skin delicate, and help wake up the brain and refresh the mind. The caffeine in tea can stimulate the human body's central nervous system, enhance the cerebral cortex's excitement process, and play a refreshing and mind-clearing effect. Green tea is also known as the "national drink" in China.
② Yellow tea is the best choice for people with weak spleen and stomach
Yellow tea is a slightly fermented tea (fermentation degree is 10-20m). Since yellow tea is fermented tea, a large amount of digestive enzymes will be produced during the fermentation process, which is especially beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is the best choice for people with weak spleen and stomach.
At the same time, it is also a good choice for those with loss of appetite, laziness and obesity. Moreover, yellow tea is rich in tea polyphenols, amino acids, soluble sugars, vitamins and other rich nutrients, and it also has obvious effects on the prevention and treatment of esophageal cancer.
③ White tea is the best choice for beauty lovers
White tea is a lightly fermented tea (fermentation degree is 20-30m), and its antioxidant content is 3 times higher than that of green tea. It can neutralize free radicals more effectively and is still considered the strongest antioxidant plant in nature. White tea contains more theanine and flavonoids, with low free radical content.
The free radical content in white tea is lower than that in other teas, and excess free radicals are an important cause of human ageing and pathological changes. The free radical content of other teas is 1.6-14.3 times that of Baihao Yinzhen. Therefore, white tea is definitely the best choice for people who are afraid of ageing.
In addition, the vitamin E in white tea is also a natural antioxidant. The flavonoid content of white tea is also high, and flavonoids have a strong antioxidant effect. With the same raw materials, the flavonoid content of white tea processed by white tea technology is 14.2-21.4 times that of other tea processes.
④ The best choice for people who want to lose weight with green tea
Green tea is semi-fermented tea (fermentation degree is 30-60m), also known as oolong tea, which is a kind of tea between green tea and black tea. It is a kind of tea between green tea and black tea. It has both the freshness of green tea and the sweetness of black tea. Because the middle of the leaves is green and the edges are red, it is called "green leaves with red edges".
The most prominent effect of green tea is to decompose fat because the main component of tea - tannic acid, has been proven to be closely related to fat metabolism, and experimental results have also confirmed that green tea can indeed reduce the cholesterol content in the blood. It is really a rare slimming tea.
⑤ Black tea is the best choice for people with a cold constitution
Black tea is a fully fermented tea (fermentation degree is 80-90m). Black tea is warm in nature, good at warming the body and expelling cold, very warming the stomach, and can help people with a cold constitution to expel cold. Moreover, during the processing of black tea, a chemical reaction centred on the enzymatic oxidation of tea polyphenols occurs. The chemical composition of fresh leaves changes greatly, tea polyphenols decrease by more than 90%, and new ingredients such as theaflavins and thearubigins are produced. The aroma substances are significantly increased compared with fresh leaves. Therefore, black tea not only warms the body but also has a very mellow taste.
At the same time, the "rich flavonoids in black tea can eliminate free radicals, have an antioxidant effect, and reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction.
⑥ Dark tea is the best choice for a greasy diet
Dark tea is a post-fermented tea (fermentation degree is 100m). Dark tea contains rich nutrients, the most important of which are vitamins and minerals, phospholipids, amino acids, sugars, and other substances. These are very effective in helping the human body digest and regulate fat metabolism. Japanese scholars have proved through scientific tests that dark tea has strong functions of removing greasiness and digestion, which is why meat-eating people particularly like this tea.
The food structure of the ethnic minorities in northwest China is beef, mutton, and cheese, and there is a lack of vegetables and fruits in their diet. Long-term drinking of dark tea is an important source of essential minerals and vitamins for the human body. Therefore, they have the saying, "It is better to go without food for three days than to go without tea for one day," there is also the saying that dark tea is the tea of life. Therefore, people with a greasy diet must have a cup of dark tea on weekdays.
In addition, dark tea can also improve the intestinal microbial environment and smooth the stomach. Chinese have a tradition of using old dark tea to treat abdominal distension, dysentery, and indigestion.
Tea is like the guardian of life, always protecting the health of mankind.
Drinking 3 cups of tea a day and insisting on drinking tea can cultivate a good living habit, which is also the simplest way;
Mobilizing one friend around you to drink tea daily and sharing a healthy life with more people is also a virtue.
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