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Everyone knows that green tea is a healthy drink. However, you may not know all the great reasons to drink green tea. Here are 5 great reasons to start drinking green tea. (by the way, many other teas have similar benefits to green tea.)

1. Healthier Blood Pressure. It has been proven that people who drink tea are at least half less likely to have or develop hypertension. This is because of the high levels of polyphenols, or ECGC, that green tea contains. What these polyphenols basically do, is keep the blood vessels from contracting. And this contracting of the blood vessels is what lowers blood pressure to a healthy level.
2. Healthy Aging. Green Tea can actually help you not develop some diseases that are common with old age. It is believed that green tea helps prevent brain nerve damage caused by free radicals. This is once again due to the antioxidants. Another reason Green Tea can help you age healthily and live longer, is because green tea can help prevent heart disease and stroke.
3. Weight Loss. One of the greatest benefits of green tea is that it can help weight loss. Many factors contribute to why green tea can have this effect. Also, one additional reason that people often lose  weight when drinking green tea, is because green tea is a no calorie beverage, and it has less caffeine than coffee. (caffeine slows the metabolism, and this can lead to weight gain.)
4. Help Prevent Cancer. The antioxidants in green tea seem to cut people’s risk of getting cancer. So, once again the antioxidants in green tea can save your life!
5. Healthy Skin. Some of the qualities of green tea can actually help with skin care. When you get a scrape or get you can actually treat it with tea. Just place a used green tea bag, or cotton ball dipped in tea on your cut or scrape. Green tea is naturally an antiseptic and it can relieve the swelling and itching.

Green Tea is basically an all around healthy drink. It is worth drinking for any of these benefits. But, the number one reason to drink tea is…. because it tastes really good!

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