Want to do something positive to enhance your health? Get in the habit of Adding green tea to your diet. It’s been shown to be beneficial as a health improver for centuries and for many different cultures from East to West.

Green tea has an unusual set of health benefits. It has a reputation for helping with many health issues. Green tea is filled with antioxidants which protect your cells.

Surprisingly, it also has a reputation of being able to prevent tooth decay.

Is high cholesterol problem for you? Green tea has been known to help lower cholesterol. Having lower cholesterol is very beneficial in helping to prevent heart disease and stroke.

Is aging a concern for you? Green tea contains a lot of antioxidants that fight free radicals. Free radicals contribute to health deteriorating that comes with the passing of time.

Most people would like to lose at least a little bit of weight and a lot of people need to lose a whole lot of weight! Assist your body to lose weight by drinking green tea on a regular basis. It just may help raise your rate of metabolism so you can burn calories more efficiently.

Even arthritis has been known to be relieved by drinking green tea. That’s because green tea contains a special substance that protects cartilage.

If you’re a menopausal or postmenopausal woman, you’re going to want to do all you can to protect the density of your bones. That’s another reason to drink green tea since it has been known to help keep bones strong.

Do you or a loved one have diabetes and need all the help you can get managing this condition? Help guard your blood sugar level by drinking green tea.

Has a loved one shown signs of suffering with Alzheimer’s disease or perhaps you yourself are in the beginning stages of this dreaded affliction? Help protect your brain cells by drinking green tea.

Want to do all you can to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease? Green tea contains lots of antioxidants which protect the cells of the brain.

Want to protect yourself from food poisoning? If you’ve been drinking green tea, bacteria that causes food poisoning may be killed by special substances in green tea.

Are you often laid low with infections? If you drink green tea, you can help strengthen your immune system.

Also drink green tea to protect yourself from the flu and colds.

Green tea is also a cleanser and if you drink it, you’ll be cleansing your body.

Be sure to buy green tea that is fresh so that you can derive the maximum health benefits from this drink that has been known for centuries to help people’s health.

Drink it either hot or cold to quench your thirst, but be sure to drink it just after it has been freshly made. However, wait a few minutes to let it steep so that the maximum benefits can enter both your teacup and your body as well.

There are additional health benefits to drinking green tea that are not included in this article. If you’re really interested, why not research the subject yourself?

Patricia Wagner
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/help-yourself-to-better-health-by-drinking-green-tea-99260.html

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Hello, this is Julieanne here. I contracted osteo-arthritis in my knees ( arthritis knees )after a motorbike accident 30 years ago. After a few years of suffering, I went to see an orthopaedic surgeon who did some minor surgery which helped. However, what helped more than the surgery, was the physiotherapy he recommended.

I visited with the physiotherapist in a gymnasium (or fitness centre as they’re sometimes called), and he showed me some exercises to increase my quadricep muscles (muscles that run along the front part of the thigh), and also to increase the strength in all my leg muscles. I started off with very low weights and low repetition. After I’d learned what exercises to do, the physio said to become a member of a gym and to lift weights regularly. He said that I could do a few months of regular (2-3 times a week), to build up the muscles, then have a break for a few months.

Since those visits to the physio (about 25 years ago), I’ve been going to the gym regularly. Sometimes when I travel, I can’t always get to the gym, and I usually notice my knees starting to ache. When I get home, I go back to the gym, and they feel better again. So, the weight lifting, along with some other arthritis help keeps the inflammation in my knees away. Most of the time, I hardly know I have arthritis in my knees.

Mayo Clinic and Boston University researchers also say people with knee osteoarthritis seem to have less pain and less cartilage loss if they have stronger quadriceps muscles.

I hope that if you have arthritis in your knees, you will do some weight lifting also, and find out how much this helps. As always, consult your doctor first, and ask for a recommendation to visit a physiotherapist.

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Exercise is one way of obtaining arthritis help. A form of arthritis or chronic joint pain is suffered by one in three Americans. Without arthritis help or therapies the pain and discomfort can lead to disability and functional loss.  There are ways to manage the pain though, and one of those methods is to exercise. This is a cost-effective way of arthritis pain relief.

The type of arthritis exercise program will depend on which joints in the body have the arthritis, how stable the joints are, the amount of inflammation and pain, and whether or not there has been a joint replacement.

If the inflammation is severe, it would be best to take an anti-inflammatory for a few days before attempting the exercise program. It is recommended to consult your medical practitioner before starting an arthritis exercise program, so he or she can assist you to work out what exercises will benefit your joints, and which ones might inadvertently cause more damage.

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