Tea Overview
Tea is an ancient, refreshing, calorie-free drink that was originally discovered in China by accident. It is now the number two most commonly drank beverage in the world though, second only to water. Tea has amazing health and wellness benefits built into it naturally, and many researchers and scientists have made some amazing discoveries in recent years.
Over the past thirty years or so, numerous scientific research studies done in a variety of different parts of the world - with thousands of both human and animal subjects - are showing results which suggest that tea can:
- help reduce obesity and body fat
- reduce LDL, or “bad” cholesterol levels
- improve the body’s circulation and blood vessel health
- improve bone density
- fight and prevent a variety of cancers
- boost the body’s immune system and resistance to diseases, possibly even HIV
- reduce the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular related diseases and …
Vitamin E
Vitamin E, or Tocopherol, is another vitamin that has started to become better known among the mainstream population in recent years. And that’s because this is yet another powerful anti oxident that can help our bodies fight diseases, infections, pollutants, and other harmful environmental toxins.
It’s the anti-oxident power that has made it so popular in recent years actually. You’ll find vitamin E in almost all beauty related products these days, such as skin creams and lotions, shampoos, and even baby oil.
Vitamin E is actually a fertility vitamin too though. In fact, the word “Tocopherol” means “ability to bear young” in the Greek language.
Vitamin E actually has so many health benefits that full fledged books have been written about it. Because of this, it’s not possible to list every single thing this vitamin helps with. Even summarizing briefly leaves us with a long list of health benefits that are too …
Vitamin C
Vitamin C, aka Ascorbic Acid, is probably the most well known vitamin today. This was also the first vitamin discovered by man, and it needs to be replaced in our bodies daily. Vitamin C is another powerful antioxident which can help our bodies fight free radicals, harmful chemicals, and environmental pollutants which make us age faster than we should.
Vitamin C’s primary role is to help our body’s form collagen, and help us absorb iron. Vitamin C is usually used internally as a supplement, but it can also be used externally on the skin. It’s actually wonderful to use for facial treatments because of it’s collagen and anti-oxident properties.
Taking larger amounts of Vitamin C when you feel a cold coming on has been extremely helpful for many people to help reduce the affects of the cold and the severity of the symptoms too. When you’re using higher amounts of vitamin …
Various B Vitamins
There are actually several types of B vitamins which are extremely important to the overall health of our bodies. Most of these B vitamins are particularly useful for helping with hair, skin and nail problems, but they have many other uses as well.
Thiamine is Vitamin B1, and this is an energy vitamin. It helps improve mental attitudes, while also helping to prevent premature aging, and helping our bodies metabolize protiens and carbohydrates. Vitamin B1 is also essential for helping to improve the body’s digestion process, and normalize the appetite too.
When someone is deficient in this vitamin, they can experience mental confusion and memory loss, become emotional and irritable, have numb hands and feet, have shortness of breath, and have excessive fatique among other things.
Vitamin B1 is obtained naturally through many foods such as wheat bran and germ, brewers years, whole grains, nuts, eggs, beef, pork, lamb, turkey, …
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is an essential vitamin for keeping your vision healthy. This vitamin is most useful for helping with vision at night time actually, and it helps your body against a condition known as night blindness, or Xerophtha.
Vitamin A is also known as Retinol or Carotene though, and it has a wide variety of other health properties too. This vitamin is a powerful antioxident in fact, which helps combat the effects of time and free radicals. Vitamin A is frequently used in skin care and beauty products these days too, because it helps keep your skin looking younger and healthier.
Vitamin A helps with a number of ailments and health issues though. It helps strengthen weak eyesight in addition to improving night blindness for instance. Vitamin A is also an excellent skin vitamin. Not only does it improve facial skin’s tone and suppleness, but it helps combat blackheads and reduce …
