Health Benefits Of Drinking Tea

Tea or popularly referred to as ‘Chai' across India has several amazing health benefits attached to it. Regular consumption of different forms of tea aids in maintaining good health. Regular drinking of tea helps in weight management, disease fighting, energy boosting and reducing stress. It has numerous medicinal properties and benefits. It is part of many cultures across the globe due to its benefit to leading a healthy life.

It has become part of different cultures well because of its amazing taste and aroma that is easily acceptable to the masses. It is taken with water or milk and has several flavours like lemon, ginger, chamomile, chocolate etc. Each person can choose to drink flavour suiting their taste buds. It can be consumed hot or cold. Tea's like green tea are highly popular in certain cultures and is gaining in popularity across the globe for its numerous health benefits.

Drinking regular tea help in cholesterol control, prevent risk of heart attack and stroke, improve immune system etc. Tea is rich in anti-oxidants that help in reducing effects of aging and prolong life. It aids in toxin control in your body. Tea without milk is very low in calories. As compared to coffee, tea contains nearly 1/3rd of its caffeine content, which helps prevent ill effects of consuming excess caffeine. It has other medicinal benefits that help in fighting cancer, tooth decay, controlling stress and preventing your body from catching infection and diseases.

Here are some of the health benefits of tea.

Anti-oxidants

Tea is rich in anti oxidants that slow aging process in your body and help you look and feel younger. It helps in prolonging life by fighting ill effects of oxidation in the body and also help your skin look better.

Weight management

Weight loss or weight gain, regular consumption of tea helps in maintaining ideal weight. Tea's like green tea slows fat build up in your body and help burn existing fat.

Prevent heart attack and stroke

Drinking tea helps in keeping your arteries smooth, clog-free and prevent blood clots formed from unwanted cholesterol. This helps in maintaining healthy hearth and arteries.

Prevent Caffeine overdose

Excess caffeine consumption from drinking too much coffee has lots of ill effects on health. This is prevented by drinking tea that has 1/3rd of caffeine as compared to coffee.

Improve immune system

Tea helps strengthen your immune system there by strengthening your defence against various diseases and infections. You are less likely to catch fever and common cold with regular consumption of tea.

Increases your metabolism

Various researches have shown green tea in increasing metabolic rate in people helping them burn nearly 70 to 80 additional calories by drinking just five cups of green tea per day.

Reduce stress levels

Consuming black tea in particular has shown to reduce stress hormones in your body there by reducing overall stress and also regulate blood pressure helping in preventing heart attacks and related problems.

Help in fighting cancer

Tea contains polyphenols, which is an antioxidant that aids in fighting and preventing cancer. Green tea in particular has been shown to activate detoxification enzymes that may help protect against tumour.

Bone health

Green tea has been found to improve bone mineral density and strength. Studies have shown that elderly women who drank tea had higher bone density in their hips and protect against bone loss and osteoporosis.

Good teeth

Tea contains small quantity of natural fluoride and tannins that helps in keeping plaque and tooth decay at bay. When fluoride mixes with saliva, bacteria can't produce the acid by-products that promote cavities.