The Benefits of Green Tea

I start every morning with a cup full of green tea. Green tea became a kind of "trend drink" over the last years and guess what, that happened for a reason! Green tea has so many benefits for our health and can even help us lose weight.

So here are my three reasons why:

Weight Loss -  Green tea increases the metabolism, what makes you use more glucose instead of storing it as so called "fat". The polyphenol in it also helps your body to be more efficient. After meals it keeps you fuller and helps regulating the release of insulin.

Preventing and helping with diseases - Green tea can help with diabetes by slowing down the rise of blood sugar after eating and therefore preventing high insulin spikes. Green tea prevent diseases like Heart Diseases, high blood pressure, Alzheimer, Parkinson and Esophageal Cancer. Another benefit is that green tea contains anti-viral and anti-bacterial agents which helps catching diseases from flus and colds to cancer.

Skin and Hair - Green tea gives you nice glowy skin and also helps with any signs of aging because of its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Especially during holidays, green tea is a good drink to go to as it also reduces sun damage. Another plus is that green tea fights against hair loss and helps with quicker and new hair growth.


How many awesome benefits can you get from such a simple and not even expensive drink?

I drink green tea for about a year now and I can really say that I notice a difference. I always have my tea in the morning as breakfast, because I've never been a big breakfast eater and therefore skip it most of the times. I have 2-4 more cups after every meal because of the great fact about the glucose, which keeps you full for a longer time. But attention! Don't add milk, honey, sugar, stevia etc. because it'll cancel out most of the beneficial ingredients of green tea. If you don't like the taste you can just add a fresh leave of mint, what makes it taste like peppermint tea :) Miranda Kerr vows on this amazing drink and when Miranda does, we should as well!

My adorable cup from this morning!