Drinking tea offers 14 key benefits! Since tea can prevent the rise of sterols in the human body and has the effect of preventing myocardial infarction, tea polyphenols can also suppress and kill pathogens.
Additionally, tea has effects such as refreshing the mind, eliminating fatigue, and antibacterial properties. This is particularly beneficial for middle-aged individuals. The European Community also acknowledges that tea can purify water quality and reduce the harm of radioactive substances to the human body. Therefore, given the current severe state of natural environmental pollution, people living in cities, in particular, should drink tea regularly. There are many benefits to drinking tea, summarized here in 14 points:
(1) Drinking tea is highly beneficial for preventing dental caries. According to a survey in the UK, regular tea consumption can reduce cavities in children by 60%.
(2) Tea leaves contain many trace elements beneficial to human health.
(3) Tea can invigorate the spirit and enhance thinking and memory abilities.
(4) Tea can eliminate fatigue, promote metabolism, and help maintain the normal functions of the heart, blood vessels, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs.
(5) Tea leaves have the effect of inhibiting malignant tumors; drinking tea can significantly inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
(6) Drinking tea can inhibit cellular aging, contributing to longevity. 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 plaques on the inner lining of blood vessels, preventing atherosclerosis, hypertension, and cerebral thrombosis.
(8) Drinking tea can stimulate the central nervous system and enhance athletic ability.
(9) Drinking tea has good weight loss and beautifying effects, with Oolong tea being particularly notable for this.
(10) Drinking tea can prevent senile cataracts.
(11) The tannic acid contained in tea leaves can kill various bacteria, thus preventing oral inflammation, pharyngitis, as well as enteritis and dysentery, which are common in summer.
(12) Drinking tea can protect the body's hematopoietic function. Tea contains anti-radiation substances; drinking tea while watching TV can reduce the harm of TV radiation and protect eyesight.
(13) Drinking tea helps maintain the normal acid-base balance of the blood. Tea contains alkaloid substances such as caffeine, theophylline, theobromine, and xanthine, making it an excellent alkaline beverage. Tea is rapidly absorbed and oxidized in the body, producing relatively high concentrations of alkaline metabolites, which can promptly neutralize acidic metabolites in the blood.
(14) Cooling down in summer. Nine minutes after drinking hot tea, skin temperature drops by 1-2 degrees Celsius, making one feel cool and dry, whereas drinking cold beverages does not result in a significant drop in skin temperature. Reasonable tea consumption is entirely beneficial and harmless to the human body, but improper consumption can be harmful.