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The 4th time is about "How to lower cholesterol with green tea".

That the "health benefits of green tea", has written a special edition. The 4th time is about "How to lower cholesterol with green tea".

1. Prevention of cancer
2. Immune power up
3. Lose weight
4. Decrease in cholesterol level
5. Improve memory and learning ability
6. Prevention and bactericidal action of food poisoning
7. Caries prevention
8. Prevention of halitosis
9. The effect of preventing drowsiness
10. Suppress the possibility of functional disorder
11. Adult disease prevention
12. Help the gastrointestinal work
13. Prevention of arteriosclerosis and stroke, prevention of blood
14. High blood pressure (hypertension)
15. Suppression of atopic and pollinosis
16. Anti-influenza action
17. Effect on AIDS
18. Hangover prevention
19. Anti-aging
20. Stress relief

The relationship between green tea and health is drawing attention and new research results are reported one after another. In addition, we may add efficacy. We would like to deeply describe each relationship.

 

The secret to lowering cholesterol lies in green tea

When you are thirsty, what do you drink? Is it juice or coffee?

For those who want to relax and aim for good health, we recommend drinking green tea. Green tea has many health benefits, but this time we will introduce you to the theme of cholesterol.

What is cholesterol ?

Cholesterol is a type of lipid (oil) and is one of the essential nutrients for the human body.

• Substance that makes cell membrane
• Hormone raw materials
• Raw materials for bile acids

People tend to think of cholesterol as a bad thing, but it plays an important role in hormone formation as well as in the formation of human cell membranes, and extreme restriction of cholesterol can lead to hormonal imbalance. Cholesterol is also necessary for the metabolism of vitamins, so a lack of cholesterol can cause rough skin.

What's wrong with high cholesterol?

Cholesterol has an important role to play, but too much of it can have a negative impact on your health.

Two types of cholesterol

• low-density lipoprotein (LDL) - (bad cholesterol)
• high-density lipoprotein (HDL) - (good cholesterol)

LDL cholesterol carries cholesterol to the whole body and delivers it to cells of each tissue. As the amount increases, it accumulates in the blood vessel wall and it causes acceleration of arteriosclerosis. Conversely, HDL cholesterol has a role of recovering extra cholesterol in the body. It acts to clean cholesterol attached to the vessel wall, so it will prevent arteriosclerosis. "LDL cholesterol" is also called "bad cholesterol", and as the amount increases, it accumulates in the blood vessel wall and it causes acceleration of arteriosclerosis.

When there is a good balance between bad and good cholesterol, even if there are too many bad cholesterol, the good cholesterol will be collected by the good cholesterol. However, if there are too many bad cholesterol to catch up with the recovery of the good cholesterol, the excess bad ones will accumulate in the blood vessels and cause arteriosclerosis. 

When cholesterol accumulates in the blood vessels, the pathways of the blood vessels become narrow or clogged. This can lead to serious life-threatening diseases such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.

Lower cholesterol

Cause of raising cholesterol level

A typical ingredient that raises the cholesterol level is meat. It is said to be caused by saturated fatty acids contained in meat. Also please be careful about sweets with a lot of sugar. Needless to say, lack of exercise is one of the most important causes.

Low cholesterol diet

Foods that lower cholesterol include vegetables, fruits, seaweed, seafood and soybeans. It is said that a meal that incorporates these well is good. In addition, green tea is also effective so that cholesterol tends to fall down.

Effects of tea catechins (tannins) on lipid metabolism were studied in male weanling rats fed a 25% casein diet containing 15% lard and 1% cholesterol for 28 days.....The results demonstrate that tea catechins exert a hypocholesterolemic effect in cholesterol-fed rats. （Muramatsu K.etal.，J.Nutr.Sci.Vitaminol 32，613，1986）

Since green tea contains catechin, it is characterized by increasing absorption by suppressing the absorption of dietary fat, which makes it difficult for fat to attach to the body. In addition, green tea is characterized by decreasing serum cholesterol, especially LDL (bad) cholesterol by the action of tea catechin which mildly absorbs cholesterol.

Low cholesterol tips

healthy meal plans

Foods rich in unsaturated fatty acids, mainly contained in vegetable oils.

• blueback (horse mackerel, mackerel, Pacific saury, sardine etc.)
• Vegetable oil · olive oil etc.
• Food with a lot of dietary fiber
• Vegetables in general · Mushrooms · Seaweed · Konjac · Bean products

1. Chew well and eat slowly.
2. eating moderately; moderation in eating; eating until 80% full
3. Late night, do not eat or drink before going to bed.
4. Alcohol is moderately.

Exercise

Aerobic exercise is effective.

• Walking exercise
• Running exercise
• Bicycle exercise
• Swimming etc.

To lower LDL (bad cholesterol), green tea is the way to go!

To control cholesterol, you can improve your lifestyle by reviewing your diet and exercise. For example, cutting down on fatty foods and doing aerobic exercise for 30-60 minutes a day are effective. However, they all require a certain amount of effort, such as putting up with your favorite foods and devoting time to them every day.
So, what I would highly recommend to those who want to get the benefits easily is to replace your regular drink with green tea.

According to Gifu University, the catechins contained in green tea have antioxidant properties and help lower LDL (bad cholesterol) by helping the liver to take in LDL (bad cholesterol) and break it down and excrete it.

Continuous intake of one of the tea catechins, "epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)," increases the number of "LDL receptors" in the liver, which are receptors that bind to LDL (bad cholesterol) and take it into the liver. On the other hand, it was discovered that the enzyme "PCSK9" that promotes the degradation of receptors is reduced.
Whether you have cholesterol pointed out in your health checkup or not, why don't you drink green tea to improve your health?