Green Tea has recently come into prominence as an effective anti-oxidant. It has been shown to reduce the risk of many forms of cancer, and it has the ability to stabilize blood lipids, making it part of an overall cardiac care regimen. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer. It can also help to prevent plaque buildup on the teeth. Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells. Green tea helps with weight loss. Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you'll be obese. Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, by reducing bad cholesterol levels. Research showed that Green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers. Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure. Poly phenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level. EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea. Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in green tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells. What this means is that green tea can help stop the HIV virus from spreading.

People who are sensitive to, or cautioned to reduce or avoid, caffeine, can still use the decaffeinated form of Green Tea, which is still shown to have the same medicinal properties and qualities.

The list of drug interactions with green tea is rather extensive, and what I'm about to mention, is by no means all-inclusive. It interacts with aspirin, acetaminophen, Tylenol, anti psychotic drugs, benzodiazepines, Tagamet, lithium, oral contraceptives, Dilantin, verapamil, and Coumadin.