Drinking Tea Can Prevent the Adverse Effects of Fast Food

A study at Kobe University revealed that drinking tea regularly is great for preventing elevated levels of bad cholesterol that can cause damage to blood cells and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Almost everyone today would rather eat fast food because it is more practical. But fast food contain lots of cholesterol, calories, and fat that can cause obesity and metabolic disorders. In addition, bad cholesterol and the use of salt in fast food can also increase the risk of heart disease.

In the study researchers used green tea and black tea which both very beneficial to health and on black tea has excess to protect the heart. The research concluded that the benefits of tea include preventing elevated levels of bad cholesterol, blood sugar and insulin resistance causes type 2 diabetes.

Tea is very easy to get and has become a daily drink, especially for people in Asia. Drinking tea could help setting levels of fat in the blood. In fact, previous studies have also mentioned that tea can also reduce the risk of cancer and neurological disorders, especially Parkinson's disease and help increase bone density for young girls.

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Study Found: Nuts can Lower Cholesterol and Heart Healthy

Research by scientists at Loma Linda University has proven that a diet of nuts may lower blood cholesterol concentrations and help prevent coronary heart disease.

The study results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that the nuts are very good for heart healthy, lower bad cholesterol of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and it can be used to dramatically improve blood cholesterol levels without using drugs. Nuts potential to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease shown by lowering blood lipid (fat and cholesterol) levels based on their unique nutritional attributes.

The study involving 583 people with high cholesterol and normal cholesterol levels. The international nut consumption trials consists of several groups of subjects that specifically have to eat nuts regularly. The people who ate about 67 grams of nuts a day showed decreased in total cholesterol levels up to 5.1 percent and 7.4 percent drop in low-density lipoprotein. The changes also occurred in the ratio of LDL cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) as good cholesterol which has 8.3 percent.

Easily obtainable natural materials such as nuts would be prudent incorporated into the diet to maintain heart health and favorably affect blood lipid levels. It will be safer and healthier than the use of drugs to lowering cholesterol.


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