jeudi 11 octobre 2012

Green Tea With Lemon Is A Great Food Combination For Your Health

By Neil Johnson


Green tea extract benefits will be substantially increased when mixed with lemon juice. To understand this idea, let's first analyze the importance of food combination.

Many diet experts will likely agree that food combination can hurt or help a person's physical condition. A person who is suffering indigestion from a buffet may blame the "All You Can Eat" policy, but in some cases bad food combination is the contributing problem. For example, mixing melon with another food is a bad idea.

Typically fruits are broken down within the stomach without having difficulty. Melons are around 90 percent water meaning that they digest even faster. If the digestion is delayed because of combination with other food, fermentation occurs in the stomach perhaps triggering upset stomach, indigestion, excessive gas and acid reflux. On the flip side, certain food combinations boost the health benefits by supporting the absorption process.

One example of a good combination is olives and tomatoes. Tomatoes are recognized as a great provider of Lycopene in the realm of diet. Fight against heart diseases and protection from cancer are some of the well recognized benefits of Lycopene. Positive effects are enhanced when tomatoes are consumed simultaneously with olives. Absorption of Lycopene are increased by olives. Now what about lemon and tea?

Weight loss, cancer prevention, healthy heart, digestive aid and diabetes prevention are some of the tea benefits. Thanks to green tea's antioxidant known as catechins the health benefits are all possible. Although the benefits of catechins are great, researches indicate that these antioxidants are unstable inside the human intestines after digestion only about 20 percent of them is available for absorption.

Lemon is also known for antioxidant which is vitamin C. It helps with some of lemon's positive factors such as digestive aid, skin care, and fight against throat infections. More importantly vitamin C offers ideal environment for catechins to be available longer when blended together.

By adding Vitamin C, human intestine becomes an acidic environment for catechins. This allows catechins to be more available for absorption. In fact it does not have to be lemon. Any citrus fruit juice like grapefruit, orange or lime will boost the absorption function. Even so lemon seems to be the most effective of all indicating that other components of lemon juice also are helping the stabilizing effect.

Blending tea and lemon juice can also be more delicious considering green tea's natural flavor is bitter. For people searching for an option to green tea, there are a lot of green tea tablets with vitamin C.




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