What are the health benefits of drinking tea?

Tea, as a traditional beverage in China, has a long history and is loved by the people. The health benefits of tea are irreplaceable by other beverages. Tea contains tea polyphenols, amino acids, vitamins, polysaccharides, caffeine, inorganic salts and trace elements. China's tea, many varieties, good quality, according to the appearance of tea and tea quality characteristics can be divided into green tea, black tea, white tea, green tea, black tea and so on. Drinking tea is very favorable to health.

Drinking tea can lose weight: tea contains catechins, cholestenone, caffeine, inositol, folic acid, pantothenic acid and other components of the combined effect of preventing and inhibiting the effects of obesity. Oolong tea has a strong effect on fat decomposition, which can help lift grease, help digestion, and have a weight loss effect. Pu-erh tea produced in Yunnan can reduce triacylglycerol and cholesterol in the human body. Drinking tea can prevent dental caries: drinking tea or gargling with tea, brushing teeth, not only can remove bad breath, but also prevent dental caries. This is because the tea contains fluorine, fluoride ions and dental calcium has a great affinity, the two can form a more difficult to dissolve in acid "fluorapatite", like a protective layer to the teeth, improve the teeth's ability to prevent acid and caries. In low-fluoride areas, advocating the consumption of general resistance tea (high-grade tea and famous tea with lower fluoride content), can prevent dental caries. Drinking tea has the role of preventing cardiovascular diseases: drinking tea has a certain preventive effect on heart and blood diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease. Drinking tea can reduce blood lipids and cholesterol, there is a certain role in lowering blood pressure, a researcher on the relationship between tea and coronary heart disease investigation found that the incidence of coronary heart disease in people who do not drink tea for 3.1%, occasionally drink tea for 2.3%, often drink tea for 1.4%, it can be seen that drinking tea can prevent coronary heart disease. Tea is a good medicine for intestinal diseases: modern medical research has confirmed that tea polyphenols can solidify bacterial proteins and kill bacteria. Such as Vibrio cholerae, typhoid bacteria, Escherichia coli, etc. placed in a few minutes of strong tea soup, most bacteria will lose the ability to move. Therefore, Chinese medicine and folk medicine often use strong tea or green tea powder to take, treatment of bacterial dysentery, enteritis and other intestinal diseases.