Chen Zongmao, an academician in the tea industry, said: Drink tea for one minute to quench thirst; drink tea for an hour, leisure; drink tea for a month, health; drink tea for a lifetime, longevity.
Zhao Lin, a researcher in the Nutrition Department of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army of Chinese and an expert in preventive health care consultation of the Central Health Commission, told you scientifically in "Tea on the Tip of the Tongue". Tea, how wonderful is this magical leaf.
Tea contains tea polyphenols, tea polysaccharides, Υ-aminobutyric acid, tea pigments, including chlorophyll, β-carotene, etc. are very nutritious, and its powerful health effect is beyond doubt. The right way to drink tea can prevent many diseases.
Tea polyphenol derivatives in tea have an anti-cancer effect.
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Speaking of tea, we are all familiar with it, but how good is tea for us humans?
Today, let's listen to Zhao Lin, a researcher in the Nutrition Department of the General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: Unveil the mystery behind tea for you, and take you to taste "Tea on the Tip of the Tongue".
We Chinese pay attention to the seven things to open the door, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, and the literati inker also have seven treasures, qinqi calligraphy and painting poetry wine tea.
Between mundane life and elegant play, tea plays an important role. Today, how do we strengthen our bodies and nourish our hearts by drinking tea, I will tell you.
It is said that drinking tea can strengthen the body, so what role does drinking tea play in our daily life?
Tea, clever leaves
Smart, does not mean that the tea itself is smart, but drinking tea can make you smart and open your head.
Drinking tea can increase your thinking. Writing articles on weekdays, I always like to make a cup of tea, and the aroma of tea can make people think about it.
Tired of driving, my head is foggy, I smell the aroma of tea, as if I smell the breath of spring, and I am suddenly refreshed.
Tea, ears and eyes of the leaves
Fermented tea contains a special substance: gamma aminobutyric acid, which can reduce the noise of the nervous system, control the noise in the head, and make its own voice louder.
This is why the elderly who drink tea for a long time can hear and see, because the noise of the nervous system is small, and the information received by the ear is strong.
Therefore, tea is a smart leaf, and there is a certain truth.
It is recorded in ancient books that Zhuge Liang captured Meng qi, went to Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, and entered the miasma area, and many soldiers suffered from eye diseases.
Zhuge Liang asked the military doctor to take tea leaves for the soldiers to boil water to drink, and wash their eyes with tea, and soon the soldiers' eye diseases were cured and they achieved great victories.
Once a team conducted a survey and found that people who drank tea were half as likely to develop cataracts as much as those who did not drink tea. It shows that drinking tea has a good effect on the prevention of cataracts.
Tea leaves, detoxifying leaves
We are all descendants of Yan Huang, Shennong tastes hundreds of herbs, encounters seventy-two poisons every day, gets tea and solves them, Shennong is Yandi.
Our ancestors, looking for food and medicine, as well as discovering throughout the practice that tea can detoxify.
White tea is the same as rhinoceros horn, white tea has: one year for tea, three years for medicine, seven years for treasure, there is a statue on a mountain in Fuding, called Taimu (mu) Mountain, is specially used to commemorate the ancient use of white tea to treat children's old people, called mother and grandmother.
White tea has detoxifying, diuretic, and antipyretic effects.
Tea leaves, a life-enhancing leaf
In the history of the mainland, there was an emperor with the longest life, called Qianlong, who abdicated at the age of 89 because he did not want to reign longer than Kangxi.
At the age of 89, he abdicated as Emperor Taishang. At the banquet of abdication, an old minister and Qianlong said: The country cannot be without a monarch for a day, and Qianlong laughed and said, "A monarch cannot go a day without tea." This shows the importance that Qianlong attaches to tea.
The tea name tieguanyin is Qianlong, Qianlong looked at the shape of tieguanyin is very tight, like iron, and at the same time shaped like Guanyin, so it is named "Tieguanyin".
Among the many tea leaves, Qianlong prefers green tea, which is also one of the reasons for Qianlong's longevity. Green tea is an unfermented tea, so it contains a lot of tea polyphenols.
Tea polyphenols were found in 2005 by the United Kingdom and Spain studies, a person drinking three cups of tea a day, can get enough EGCG (tea polyphenol derivatives), this substance has a very high effect on improving human immunity.
Therefore, the ancients have a saying: "Tea is the medicine for all diseases" has a high scientific basis.
Spring and summer nourish the yang, autumn and winter nourish the yin
Why is it recommended to drink green tea in spring and summer, because green tea can stimulate the yang of the human body, and autumn and winter are the seasons of convergence, so drink black tea ripe Pu.
Drinking tea makes people calm and introspective, tea has been integrated into the blood of the Chinese nation, and has become a symbol of Chinese.
Chinese personality is very similar to tea, not humble, persistent and lasting, which is why we can inherit the tea culture of thousands of years.
Theaflavins also have anti-cancer effects
Modern students ordinary drink drinks, very unhealthy, high-sugar drinks, resulting in frequent occurrence of children's ADHD, Zhao Lin believes that students should exercise tea, refresh the mind, sugar-free health, improve learning efficiency.
The People's Daily has also repeatedly praised the health function of tea.
There is a slimming effect
The researchers studied the effects of tea leaves and additional tea extracts on body weight regulation, and people who consumed tea and its extracts lost 1.3 kilograms compared to those who did not consume tea and its extracts for more than three months.
The aromatic compounds contained in tea can dissolve fat, eliminate turbidity and prevent fat accumulation in the body. In addition, it contains vitamins B1, C and caffeine, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion and cellulite.
Saponin can also add a boost to your slimming, increase body fluids, nutrients and calorie metabolism, strengthen microvascular circulation, and reduce fat deposits in the body.
Another important reason why tea has a slimming effect is that tea contains a substance called polyphenols, commonly known as catechins.
It has antioxidant, increase metabolism, scavenging free radicals and other effects, can activate protein kinase and triglyceride lipolyase through many effects, reduce fat cell accumulation, so as to achieve weight loss effect.
However, although drinking tea has many benefits for the body, drinking tea also pays attention to the principle: do not drink strong tea. Otherwise, the tannic acid (also called tannic acid or tea tannin) in tea leaves is extremely easy to cause anemia and other damage to the body.
Tea can reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity and death
The results of a clinical trial published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine in May 2012 showed that people who drank three cups of black tea a day had a 36 percent reduction in triglyceride levels and a 17 percent reduction in LDL cholesterol levels.
The British "Daily Mail" reported that according to the latest research results, drinking three cups of tea a day can not only quench thirst, but also stabilize blood pressure - not only reduce blood pressure, but also make the blood pressure index more stable at night.