Tag Archive: Green Tea

Health Benefits of Green Tea Extract

Let thy food be thy med­i­cine and med­i­cine be thy food”.  Herbs have been used for 1000’s of years to help coax the body back into health. Hip­pocrates, the father of mod­ern med­i­cine, knew a lit­tle about the pow­er­ful med­i­c­i­nal effect of food. While many inter­est groups still reject the con­cept of food as “ther­apy”. Some…

Herbal Medicine for Diabetes and Stress Relief

Dia­betes, stress, and obe­sity are already at the fore­front of our 21st cen­tury health prob­lems. Two out of every three adults is over­weight or obese (usu­ally accom­pa­nied with some degree of insulin resis­tance) & one out of three chil­dren born after the year 2000 are expected to have non-insulin depen­dent dia­betes later in life. It’s not…

How to Support the Prevention of Parkinson’s Disease With Nutrition

Because Parkinson’s dis­ease is asso­ci­ated with envi­ron­men­tal causes and has a typ­i­cal onset beyond 50 years of age, it presents a win­dow for nutri­tion in both pre­ven­tion and intervention.

5 Reasons to Enjoy the Benefits of Tea

Drink­ing a vari­ety of teas through­out the day gives your body high expo­sure to a a num­ber of polyphe­nols and phy­to­chem­i­cals that it most likely does not obtain through nor­mal diet. Unlike phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal drugs, the effects of these nat­ural chem­i­cals coax your body into a state of bal­ance. In fact, many pop­u­lar drugs have their roots in com­pounds found in plants. Instead of tak­ing chances with a con­cen­trated form of a sin­gle phy­to­chem­i­cal, the nat­ural form of the plant con­tains mul­ti­ple chem­i­cals work­ing in sym­phony with each other as nature intended for the body.