mardi 18 septembre 2012

Mix Tea With Lemon Juice And Increase Health Benefits

By John Clifford


Green tea extract benefits may be considerably increased if lemon juice is included. In order to understand this concept, one must first analyze the health impacts of food combination.

Most nutrition experts will agree that food combination can positively or negatively impact a person's physical health. People having difficulties with acid reflux following a buffet like meal may blame the amount of food, but in many cases poor food combination is the contributing problem. As an example, combining melon with any other food is not a smart combination.

In most cases fruits are digested inside the stomach without any problems. Melons digest actually faster than other fruit, since they are above 90 percent water. If the digestive process is delayed as a result of mixing with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach perhaps causing acid reflux, upset stomach, indigestion and excessive gas. However, certain food blends improve the health benefits by helping the absorption.

Olives and tomatoes are an excellent idea. In the realm of nutrition, tomatoes are regarded as an excellent source of Lycopene. Cancer prevention and fight against heart diseases are a few of the recognized health benefits of Lycopene. Health rewards are increased when tomatoes are eaten together with olives. Absorption of Lycopene is enhanced by olives. So what about green tea and lemon?

A few of the well recognized tea benefits are digestive aid, diabetes prevention, weight loss, cancer prevention and healthy heart. Because of tea's antioxidant known as catechins the health benefits are achievable. Despite the positive aspects of catechins, researches indicate these antioxidants are degraded easily inside the human intestines following digestion leaving no more than 20 percent of them for absorption.

Lemon also has antioxidant that is vitamin C. It contributes to some of lemon's benefits such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. Importantly vitamin C allows right environment for catechins to survive when combined together.

Vitamin C provides an acidic environment for catechins in the human intestines. This allows catechins to be more available for absorption. Actually it does not need to be lemon. Any citrus juice like orange, lime or grapefruit will help with the absorption function. However lemon seems to be the most effective of all implying that additional components of lemon are possibly contributing to the catechins availability.

Since the natural taste of tea is bitter, blending tea and lemon juice can be more delicious. For those trying to find an alternative option to tea, there are also a lot of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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