Health Benefits of Drinking Black Tea.

Drinking Tea is, without doubt, beneficial to your health. And these  health benefits of  drinking tea are truly amazing. These black tea health benefits have been proved and concluded by studies carried out by reputed and authentic sources. It does tend to make one sit up and ponder that the tea which you so casually drink, can give you so many health benefits.

Black Tea or Green Tea or White tea  are all made from the leaves of the same plant called Camellia Sinensis. The Health Benefits of Tea are due to the properties present in this plant. In the tea manufacturing process, black tea is prepared after the leaves are further dried and after full fermentation and oxidation of the tea leaves, while green tea is not oxidized completely and the leaves are not allowed to dry up as much as in black tea. It is believed that due to this reason, the health benefits of green tea are more  than the  health benefits of drinking  black tea. However, this is not a proven  fact  and  the debate continues.

Four Facts about Tea you should know.

• After water, black tea is the most widely drunk beverage in the world.
• Tea contains less than half of caffeine than coffee.
• Calorie content of tea (without milk and sugar) is almost negligible.
• Health benefits of tea are mainly due to polyphenols such as catechins, theaflavins and thearubigins. Catechins are basically flavonol monomers. These polyphenols have  strong anti oxidant properties.

Know what is an anti oxidant.

In brief, anti oxidants neutralize the free radicals ( unstable atoms) that have been formed during oxidation that takes place in the body cells. Free radicals, if not neutralized, do much  harm  to the other body cells in the body and contribute to wide range of diseases like heart disease, arthritis, Alzeimer’s disease, cancer, atherosclerosis  and diabetes. Anti oxidants, like black tea,   help to prevent this damage.

How Drinking Black Tea Benefits You.

1. In coronary artery disease,  there is dysfunction of the vasodilatation and vasoconstriction properties of the heart blood vessels. Drinking black tea over a period reverses this dysfunction. However, this benefits only those who drink black tea straight without addition of milk, because addition of milk prevents you from getting this benefit.
2. Flavanols in tea keeps the arteries of the body more flexible, thereby increasing  blood circulation.
3. Tea helps to reduce blood pressure.
4. Tea helps to protect you against sun burns.
5. Theaflavins in tea help to lower increased choleaterol levels.
6. In a patient of bronchial asthma, drinking tea helps to make breathing easier.
7. Black tea helps to kill viruses, including the herpes virus that may be present in the mouth and gums.
8. Black tea has germicidal (germ killing) properties and kills germs that cause diarrhea, pneumonia, infections of the urinary bladder and skin infections.
9. Drinking Black Tea  reduces  risks of breast cancer, stomach cancer and colorectal cancer. This is attributed to a compound called TF-2  which is present in black tea. TF-2 specifically kills the cancer cells without damaging the normal cells.
10. Black Tea helps to prime up your immune system. How does it do it? Tea contains alkylamines (L-theamine) in a relatively weak form. These alkylamines are also present in certain bacteria, fungi, cancerous cells, parasites, and such other invasive agents. In people who drink tea, the immune cells already have come to recognize these alkylamines. Therefore, when bacteria, etc enter your body, the immune cells which have come to recognize these alkylamines, promptly combat them and destroy these infective forces.
11. Tea contains Vitamin B1 or Thiamine. How does this benefit your health?
    • This helps to utilize carbohydrates by your body.
    • Helps to metabolize amino acids.
    • Vitamin B1 is important for functioning of the nerve cells.
    • Helps in formation of blood.
    • Is important for brain function.
    • Helps to increase blood circulation.
    • Contributes positively in production of hydrochloric acid, which is present in gastric juice, thereby helping in the digestive process.
12. Black tea delays the ageing process by reactivating the dying skin cells.

To obtain the maximum health benefits from drinking black tea, drink it black, without adding milk or sugar. This is a common practice in the middle east, where it is called “Suleman Chai” – chai  meaning tea.

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