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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Green Tea Benefits - Tea With Lemon To Increase Benefits

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By Max Waters


Green tea health benefits will be significantly enhanced when blended with lemon juice. In order to comprehend this theory, let's first analyze the importance of food combination.

Most nutrition experts will likely agree that blending food can harm or benefit a person's health condition. Most people experiencing acid reflux after a buffet may blame the amount of food, however in most instances bad food mixing is the contributing factor. For example, combining melon with another food is a bad combination.



Fruit in most cases are broken down inside the stomach without having issues. Melons are above 90 percent water which means they break down even faster. If the digestive process is delayed as a result of blending with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach possibly causing excessive gas, acid reflux, upset stomach and indigestion. On the flip side, certain food mixtures improve the health rewards by assisting the absorption.

One example of a great food combination is olives and tomatoes. In the world of diet, tomatoes are recognized as a great supply of Lycopene. Lycopene comes with health benefits like fight against heart diseases and cancer prevention. Positive effects are enhanced when tomatoes are eaten simultaneously with olives. Absorption of Lycopene is increased by olives. So what about tea with lemon?

Some well-known green tea benefits are healthy heart, digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss and cancer prevention. Due to green tea's antioxidant called catechins the health rewards are possible. Despite the many benefits of catechins, studies have shown that these antioxidants are easily degraded inside the human intestines after digestion allowing only about 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon is also known for antioxidant which is vitamin C. It allows for some of lemon's benefits such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. More to the point vitamin C provides suitable environment for catechins to survive when combined together.

Vitamin C provides an acidic environment for catechins inside the human intestines. This process makes catechins to be more available for absorption. In fact it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus fruit juice like grapefruit, orange or lime will improve the absorption process. Yet lemon appears to be the most effective of all indicating that additional components of lemon juice also are helping the catechins availability.

Blending tea and lemon juice can also be tastier considering green tea's natural taste is bitter. For people interested in an option to tea, there are also many selections of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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