If you drink a lot of black and green tea in three months, along with a reasonable diet, in addition to preventing certain cancers and anti-aging, tea also reduces the amount of harmful cholesterol by 16% in your blood.
If you drink a lot of black and green tea in three months, along with a reasonable diet, in addition to preventing certain cancers and anti-aging, tea also reduces the amount of harmful cholesterol by 16% in your blood.
This is the result of a recent study by Dr. David Maron (Vanderbilt University). He tested pills containing 375 milligrams of theaflavin-rich (antioxidant) extracts from green and black tea on 240 people in both men and women. All of these people are following a low-fat diet. They are divided into two groups:
– Group One used the aforementioned medicine, with a total of each extract used in the trial equivalent to seven cups of black tea and thirty-five cups of green tea.
– Group Two used placebo.
After twelve weeks, peoples of group One had a 16% lower cholesterol than peoples Group Two.
Theo tiến sĩ Maron, mặc dù mức giảm này không cao bằng tác động của những loại thuốc làm giảm cholesterol, nhưng đây lại là một kết quả đáng kinh ngạc khi so sánh với các phương pháp làm giảm cholesterol không sử dụng hoá dược. However, because a pill contained a mixture of antioxidants, the study did not identify which substance or group of substances could lower cholesterol.
Tea is the beverage that contains the most antioxidants. Previous studies have shown that green and black tea contain antiseptic, anti-cancer and anti-aging properties. With this research, we know more about cholesterol-lowering effects. However, just drinking tea is not enough to reduce cholesterol in the blood, if other eating habits have the opposite effect. It may explain why tea drinkers like the British still have high blood cholesterol.
While he is pleased with the results, Maron maintains that further testing is needed to determine if the group of substances in the long term is harmful to the body and that they interact with the drug. How to lower cholesterol?
Maron’s research was funded by a company that produces tea extracts.
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