TEK - Green Tea Extract - health benefits

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How to make Green Tea Extract in order to benefit from its health properties.

This is intended for people in order to receve the health benefits that Green Tea may provide, in accordance with a healthy diet in order to minimize any risks associated with drug use and to improve the general health and well being.

Green tea extract is taken as a supplement and is easy to make at home. The University of Maryland Medical Center's website reports that the potential health benefits of green tea have been studied extensively; these studies suggest that green tea may have numerous beneficial uses, including lowering the risk of heart disease, preventing and treating cancerous tumors, encouraging weight loss and slowing the aging process.Green tea has been claimed to be helpf ul for atherosclerosis, LDL cholesterol, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, liver disease, weight loss, neurodegenerative diseases, and even halitosis, among other things.


Things You'll Need:

• 2 clean containers, large enough to hold 4 cups of liquid. (At least one container should have a lid.) 3 1/2 oz. (about 7 tbsp.) of green tea 4 cups of still (not sparkling) mineral water Straining device, such as a sieve or cheesecloth
• Nowadays, there is heaps of this that you can buy almost everywhere - from your local marketplace, newspapers and magazines, and from the internet. To make sure that you are getting your money's worth, here are simple tips that you can follow to get the utmost benefits from your Green Tea Extract
  Make sure that you purchase from a well-respected store/supplier. Read the labels very well before deciding to buy it because the label will tell you all.
  There are varieties now so make sure to get the genuine extract of your choice. For example, Chinese Green Tea Extract has already so many varieties to choose from such as Hui Ming, Qing Ding, ang Long Ming while Japanese Green Tea Extracts include Kukicha, Sencha, and Mecha Tea. Do your research first.
  It should be part of your everyday meal to yield the utmost benefits you want so drink everyday. It can also help you lose weight and body detoxification.
• Drinking green tea should be combined with taking the extract in orde rto receive the full health benefits.
• The extract can be put into capsules and taken that way.

1. How To Make Green Tea Extract
2. Step 1
   Combine the tea with the mineral water.
3. Step 2
   Steep the tea at room temperature for 1 hour.
4. Step 3
   Pour the tea into the lidded container, straining the tea as you pour.
5. Step 4
   Refrigerate the covered tea extract.
6. Step 5
   Discard the loose tea or tea bags.
7. You might gently, at low temperatue, boil down the tea, leaving a resiude at the bottom of the pot, which is the extract. Otherwise, add some fresh green tea leaves, and let the extract evaporate "into" them (basically evaporate the water while the leafs are soaked with the extract.

Further Information:

• Green tea is also used as an ingredient in some beauty products, due to its purported anti-aging properties. To make your own green tea moisture cream, add a small amount of green tea extract to plain skin lotion.
• If you are taking the prescription drug Velcade, do not consume any green tea product, as a 2009 University of Southern California study concluded that green tea renders the drug useless.
• Be aware of both the caffeine content and any reactions that could occur.
• Be aware of possible high flouride content that can lead to bone problems as well as other health issues (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis)
• For long-term, high-dose use it is better to use commercial de-caffeinated, EGCG isolated extracts.

Be aware that this is just a method that should only be used occasionally, not for the daily capsule. It is possible that it can be used, but i was not able to gather enough information about this topic, neither to obtain better extraction manuals. Feel free to correct or add stuff, i'd be happy to see a good green tea extract manual, especially for de-caff or capsules, as well as more information about negative side effects.