What are the proven health benefits of green tea?
Green tea has a number of antioxidants. It’s known that antioxidants are good for you and people are encouraged to eat foods which provide antioxidants, like broccoli and beets. There are a lot of claims for green tea. It’s difficult to know how many of them are true. In general, it’s a good food but high in cafeine. One needs to be careful not to take in too much cafeine. Here is some of what Wickipedia has to say about the proven and unproven benefits of green tea: Unproven claims Green tea has been credited with providing a wide variety of health benefits, many of which have not been validated by scientific evidence. These claims and any for which academic citations are currently missing are listed here: Stopping certain neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s[citation needed] Preventing/treating cancer [2] Treating multiple sclerosis [3] Preventing the degradation of cell membranes by neutralizing the spread of free radicals (which occurs during the process o
