Good Morning! Thursday’s make me happy, it’s winding down of the week and the excitement of the weekend approaching, there’s just something great about Thursdays. 
Did you check out yesterday’s post? Did you calculate your daily water intake needs? If not, click here and find out! We gotta stay up on being hydrated. It’s been too dang hot out not to.
For anyone that knows me {and you don’t have to know me that well to figure it out}, knows that I LOVE GREEN TEA. Seriously. Love.
taken in the winter, two BFF’s.
Water may be my number one drink of choice, but green tea is right there in the running. I started drinking green tea because I wanted something else to drink besides water, and there was no way I was going to go back to drinking sodas, no way, no how. So I tried it, and LOVED it. It’s refreshing, it’s tasty, it cools you off on a hot day, or warms you up when you’re cold. It’s nice that way.
Two of my favorite green teas are Bigelow & Tazo China Green Tips.
I found this article on food.yahoo and liked it so much, thought I’d share it with you:
CUT YOUR CANCER RISK
Several polyphenols – the potent antioxidants green tea’s famous for – seem to help keep cancer cells from gaining a foothold in the body, by discouraging their growth and then squelching the creation of new blood vessels that tumors need to thrive. Study after study has found that people who regularly drink green tea reduce their risk of breast, stomach, esophagus, colon, and/or prostate cancer.
SOOTHE YOUR SKIN
Got a cut, scrape, or bite, and a little leftover green tea? Soak a cotton pad in it. The tea is a natural antiseptic that relieves itching and swelling. Try it on inflamed breakouts and blemishes, sunburns, even puffy eyelids.
PROTECT YOUR SKIN
In the lab, green tea applied directly to the skin (or consumed) helps block sun-triggered skin cancer, which is why you’re seeing green tea in more and more sunscreens and moisturizers.
STEADY YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE
Having healthy blood pressure – meaning below 120/80 – is one thing. Keeping it that way is quite another. But people who sip just half a cup a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension than non-drinkers. Credit goes to the polyphenols again (especially one known as ECGC). They help keep blood vessels from contracting and raising blood pressure.
PROTECT YOUR MEMORY, OR YOUR MOM’S
Green tea may also keep the brain from turning fuzzy. Getting-up-there adults who drink at least two cups a day are half as likely to develop cognitive problems as those who drink less. Why? It appears that the tea’s big dose of antioxidants fights the free-radical damage to brain nerves seen in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
STAY YOUNG
The younger and healthier your arteries are, the younger and healthier you are. So fight plaque build-up in your blood vessels, which ups the risk of heart disease and stroke, adds years to your biological age (or RealAge), and saps your energy too. How much green tea does this vital job take? About 10 ounces a day, which also deters your body from absorbing artery-clogging fat and cholesterol.
LOSE WEIGHT
Oh yeah, one more thing. Turns out that green tea speeds up your body’s calorie-burning
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Pretty nifty huh?
So tell me, do you like Green Tea, lover or hater? Or never tried it? Give it a shot. Hot or Cold it’s super tasty!
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I am a green tea lover myself!
I only drink water and green tea usually. I’ll drink coffee if I’m super tired. My favorite is Newmans Organic Royal green tea. I have a great recipe for iced green tea I’ll have to post on my blog. Have a great day!
Honestly I don’t drink tea that often. I am willing to give it a shot though because you love it so much. Happy Thursday!
I once ordered authentic green tea from Japan and paid out the wha-zoo for it. It tasted like pure grass so I trashed the whole box (dummy move). I wish I hadn’t. I’d like to try again. I want a do-over.
You’ve almost got me sold. Next time I go to the grocery store, I’ll pick some up and give it a shot. That might not be for a while — my wife runs that department — but it’s been known to happen every here and there.
I’m definitely a green tea lover – especially after reading all those benefits!
What do you order at Starbucks? I’ve never tried straight green tea, but the energy drinks that I LOVE from Arbonne have green tea in them.
Trader Joes has a Blueberry Green Tea that is super yummy!! I like to make ice tea with it.