Green tea improves the quality of life in old age
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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None of the drinks has received such attention of scientists recently, like green tea. It seems that green tea is a unique healing elixir that relieves many diseases. A new study claims that green tea can help stay active and healthy even in old age.
The universal healing properties of green tea help to resist a large number of diseases. Whatever it is: skin diaper rash in children or autoimmune diseases, heart disease and cancer in adults.
It is well known that the inhabitants of the island of Okinawa (Japan) have one of the highest life expectancies on Earth. Initially, it was associated with heredity. But later it turned out that this was not so. Moving the Japanese from Okinawa to other parts of the world, such as Brazil and the US, significantly reduced their life expectancy and increased the risk of other diseases.
Unlike most other Asian peoples, Okinawa residents traditionally drink a large amount of green tea along with jasmine. Correctly grown at high altitudes, green tea should be collected and eaten in a timely manner. This helps to maintain the high quality of green tea and its useful ingredients.
This also ensures the content of a large amount of fluorides in tea and allows you to get the necessary dose of antioxidants. As confirmed by many studies in the field of cancer, polyphenols from the extract of green tea help to destroy cancer cells without damaging the normal ones.
Recently it also became known that green tea can affect the quality of life in old age.
The study, conducted in Japan by specialists from the Tohoku University School of Medicine, touched upon the study of the health of almost 14,000 elderly people over 65 years of age. Scientists compared the health and functional activity of people who drank five cups of green tea a day with those who drank one or less.
Given that the traditional Japanese cup holds about 100 ml of liquid, the total amount of green tea drunk per day should have been at least half a liter. In the process of comparing the two groups, scientists took into account the general factors affecting health, such as lifestyle, nutrition, place of living and the state of the environment.
As a result, it was found that about 13% of people who drank less than one cup of green tea, suffered from diseases that lead to functional inferiority. At the same time, only 7% of elderly people who drank about 5 cups of green tea daily had such violations.
Although the difference between the groups is not dramatic, scientists plan to conduct further studies of the relationship between drinking green tea and aging.
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