What are the benefits of drinking tea for your health? I believe everyone has a certain understanding of what tea can preserve health. After all, drinking tea for health has been a tradition for thousands of years, but many people still don't know much about the benefits to the human body. Let me take you to a brief understanding of the health benefits of drinking tea.
What are the benefits of drinking tea for your health? 1 1, antioxidant effect.
There are many and complex nutrients in tea, which have strong antioxidant capacity, and can help us to eliminate harmful free radicals in the body and improve immunity. Tea is rich in tea polyphenols, which has a good anti-aging effect, and is said to be more powerful than vitamin E. According to the research of the National University of Singapore, drinking tea can also reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
2, refreshing and anti-fatigue
Coffee has excellent anti-fatigue and refreshing effect, and tea's refreshing effect is not bad, because tea is rich in theobromine, theanine and caffeine, which can stimulate nerve excitement and has a good refreshing effect. Caffeine is the most important in tea. Its main function is to refresh the mind, strengthen the heart and diuresis, and eliminate fatigue. So it's not just coffee that refreshes and resists fatigue, but also tea.
3. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Drinking tea regularly can also prevent various cardiovascular diseases, because tea is rich in' tea polyphenols' and' tea polysaccharides', which can inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent thrombosis, thus reducing the chances of people suffering from cardiovascular diseases. According to British research, drinking tea regularly can also reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
4. Enhance immunity
Tea is rich in vitamins, especially vitamin C, which is almost easily absorbed in tea soup, so people can absorb and utilize vitamin C in large quantities to enhance their disease resistance. In addition, tea can activate macrophages, T and B lymphocytes, strengthen cells that resist pathogens, and play a powerful role in regulating the immune ability of the body.
There are many benefits of drinking tea, and the above four benefits are the most obvious. It is good for your health to keep a certain habit of drinking tea every day.
What are the benefits of drinking tea? What are the benefits of drinking tea?
1. Tea can refresh the mind and enhance the ability of thinking and memory.
2. Tea can eliminate fatigue, promote metabolism and maintain the normal functions of the heart, blood vessels and gastrointestinal tract.
Drinking tea is of great benefit to preventing dental caries. A survey in Britain shows that children who drink tea regularly can reduce their dental caries by 60%.
Tea contains many trace elements beneficial to human body.
5. Tea can inhibit malignant tumor, and drinking tea can obviously inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
6. Drinking tea can inhibit cell aging and prolong life. The anti-aging effect of tea is more than 18 times that of vitamin e.
7. Drinking tea can delay and prevent the formation of lipid plaque in vascular intima, and prevent arteriosclerosis, hypertension and cerebral thrombosis.
8. Drinking tea can excite the central nervous system and enhance exercise ability.
9. Drinking tea has a good slimming and beauty effect, especially oolong tea.
10, drinking tea can prevent senile cataract.
1 1. Tannic acid contained in tea can kill many kinds of bacteria, so it can prevent and treat stomatitis, pharyngolaryngitis, enteritis, dysentery, etc.
12, drinking tea can protect people's hematopoietic function. Tea contains anti-radiation substances. Drinking tea while watching TV can reduce the harm of TV radiation and protect your eyesight.
13, drinking tea can maintain the normal acid-base balance of blood. Tea contains alkaloids such as caffeine, theophylline, theobromine and xanthine, and is an excellent alkaline drink. Tea can be quickly absorbed and oxidized during the extraction process, resulting in high concentration of alkaline metabolites, thus neutralizing acidic metabolites in the blood in time.
14, heatstroke prevention and cooling. After drinking hot tea for 9 minutes, the skin temperature drops 1-2 degrees Celsius, which makes people feel cool and dry, while after drinking cold drinks, the skin temperature drops slightly.
Reasonable drinking tea is beneficial to human body, while unreasonable drinking tea is harmful to human body.
Drinking tea depends on physical fitness. Chinese medicine believes that people's physique can be divided into dry heat and deficiency cold, and tea can be divided into coolness and warmth through different production processes, so it is also important to drink tea with different constitutions. People with hot and dry constitution should drink herbal tea, while those with deficient and cold constitution should drink warm tea.
It is best to drink black tea at night. Because green tea belongs to non-fermented tea, it has high content of tea polyphenols, maintains its original properties and is irritating; Black tea is a completely fermented tea. Although the content of tea polyphenols is low, it is mild after "aging" and suitable for drinking at night. Especially for people with weak spleen and stomach, adding some milk when drinking black tea can play a certain role in warming the stomach.
However, people who are easily excited or sensitive, have poor sleep and are weak should drink less or not drink tea at night. In addition, when drinking tea at night, you should put less tea leaves and don't make the tea too strong. It is best to drink tea after meals, because drinking tea on an empty stomach will harm your health, especially for people who don't drink tea often, it will inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, hinder digestion, and seriously cause palpitations, headaches and other "tea drunk" phenomena.