Thursday, May 22, 2008

High cholesterol level can be balanced by green tea

It is not funny when your doctor said that you got high cholesterol level in your blood, and you are the next candidate to get heart attack. Some of us get panic and grab anything to lower our high cholesterol level.

Many high-caliber scientists take it for granted that folklore mixes well with modern science. For Example, I n 1985, several prominent scientists from Japan’s National Institute of Genetics published a paper with a fanciful title, “A Case of the Green Tea Factor.” It was a rave review for a factor isolated from Japanese green tea leaves called “epigallo-catechin-gallate,” which in lab culture tests is an antagonist to cancer-producing chemicals. Nestled in the paper was a paragraph calling attention to the fact that “in China, green tea has been considered as a crude medicine for 4000 years.” The investigators did no quarrel with reports that green tea could protect blood vessels, suppress cancer, and prolong the life span. Now some of doctor prescribes green tea extract for regulating the high cholesterol level.

The point is not whether tea does all theses things – although there is strong evidence that it is potent therapeutically – but that top-notch scientists are no longer reluctant to entertain the thought that it could.

Much of the new scientific interest in the food pharmacy is linked with ancient and current folklore.

Several cultures do not blush at prescribing tea for heart disease. Russian scientists, after prolific studies on patients, praise tea’s ability, mainly because of its catechins, to delay atherosclerosis, strengthen capillaries; thin the blood, lower blood pressure. Tea Catechins is called “Superior to every known capillary-strengthening drug.” Tea drinkers had only two thirds as much heart artery damage and one third as much brain artery damage as coffee drinkers. Green tea also can balance your high cholesterol level.


There is one good report about regulating the high cholesterol level. You can find it at http://no-high-cholesterol.info