Tea is the second most popular beverage in the world, after water. Asian cultures drink gallons of green, oolong and other teas, and the Brits consume large quantities of black tea. In fact, everywhere in the world, tea is a regular part of life. In many cases, we drink tea because we like it, but as it turns out, it may be extremely healthy for us, too.

Over the years there’s been tons of research on the benefits of tea to our health. And, as we learn more and more, it’s becoming clear that drinking tea may be one of the best things we can do to protect our health and prolong our lives. The University of Toronto Medical Journal outlines the many benefits that drinking tea can offer

Prevention of Heart Disease

Studies have shown that regular tea consumption can actually lower cholesterol levels circulating in the blood. In fact, some studies have shown tea to reduce total cholesterol by as much as 6.5% and LDL cholesterol by as much as 11%. A reduction in cholesterol prevents atherosclerosis, a condition in which the arteries that carry blood become narrowed due to a buildup of plaque. The plaque that builds up in our arteries is created when LDL cholesterol oxidizes.

Prevention of Cancer

Tea has been shown to reduce the risk of several forms of cancer. In fact, tea has been shown to reduce lung tumors by 80% in laboratory mice. Tea has also been effective in human studies on cancer, including breast cancer, colon cancer and gastric cancer.

Weight Loss

Tea has also been shown to be an effective weight loss supplement. Tea increases energy expenditure, promotes fat oxidation and decreases fat storage. Many studies have shown that drinking tea in conjunction with a healthy diet and exercise can help you lose more weight than diet and exercise alone.

Improvement in Intestinal Tract Bacteria

Regular tea consumption can help improve the bacteria that live in your intestinal tract; eliminating harmful bacteria and helping beneficial bacteria to flourish. Tea has been shown to reduce the level of H pylori bacteria in the stomach. H pylori is associated with the development of ulcers.

Getting Your Daily Dose

The recommended dose of tea for health benefits is about 30 ounces per day – the equivalent of 2 ½ cans of soda. While this may seem like a lot, it’s easy to consume this amount if you replace some of the other beverages you consume with tea. Consider this:

Replace one cup of your morning coffee with a cup of tea instead – that’s 8 ounces.

Have one bottle of green tea with lunch instead of a bottled soda – that’s another 12 ounces.

For an afternoon break, make a relaxing cup of tea instead of a snack. You’ll save calories and get another 8 ounces of tea.

Have a cup of lavender or mint tea before bed – you’re getting another eight ounces of tea, and you’ll sleep better too!

Which tea is best?

There are literally thousands of varieties of tea available – so much that you may be confused about which you should be drinking. Probably the best tea for you is the one that you like, because if you like it you’ll drink more of it. However, if you’re choosing tea strictly for the health benefits, here are some suggestions to help you choose the tea that will give you the most benefit.

Choose green tea over black – Green tea is unfermented, which means that more of the original anti-oxidants are intact. It is believed that green tea has more health benefits than black tea because these anti-oxidants remain in their natural state. If you don’t like the flavor of plain green tea, there are dozens of flavored green teas. They are just as healthy, and taste great. In addition, you can find bottled green teas that are very convenient when you’re on the go.

Choose caffeinated teas over decaffeinated – Caffeinated teas have the most health benefit. It is believed that the caffeine in tea works with the anti-oxidants to create the maximum effects. Those who are caffeine sensitive might try green tea, as its caffeine content is lower than that of black tea.

Make sure it’s real tea – There are many beverages that are referred to as tea that are not really tea. True tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. Herbal teas, and teas like rooibos and mate are really tisanes -meaning they come from other plants. There’s certainly nothing wrong with these teas, but they don’t provide the health benefits that you’ll find in a true tea.

Drink it the way you like it- Tea retains the same health benefits whether you drink it hot or cold and whether or not you add milk. Just remember to skip the sugar if you’re drinking tea to help you lose weight.

With all the health benefits that we’re discovering about tea, it’s a pretty good assumption that tea may help you live longer. By putting off many of the signs and diseases of aging, you’re also likely to be healthier and more active in your old age. Tea is a natural, refreshing way to improve your health and longevity.

Marcus Stout
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/can-drinking-tea-make-you-live-longer-107946.html

Always get sufficient sleep, eat a balanced diet and at all times wear your seatbelt are just a few of the recommendations linked with living longer, nevertheless an anti-aging diet is an even stronger recommendation to assist in the achievement of a longer life.

In the past 200 years many people, both men and women alike, are living longer lives, furthermore many physicians are of the belief that how long you live is significant; what an anti-aging diet can achieve is assist with the level of value of a extended life span.

The Proper Care and Feeding Of Your Cells

Within the human body there are billions of living cells, all with the capability to reproduce themselves when they die. Human cells are continually dying and revitalizing nevertheless when regeneration occurs the quality of the fresh cells are reliant on the quality of the dietary values they draw from. When a person utilizes an anti-aging diet incorporating suitable nourishment it can assist in creating the fresh cells more resilient than the dead ones they restore.

The mainstream advice for an anti-aging diet support the use of saturated fats to be around 10% of the total energy, though the American Heart Association advises roughly 30% as satisfactory. This would be around 3 times the amount consumed by groups with the least amount of heart disease.

The vast majority of suggested anti-aging diets are comprised of exercising more and eating less, and reducing intake of undue calorie junk food and even many fast foods. Many vegetarians persevere in the perception that by steering clear of consuming animal fat as an incredibly valuable means of diminishing the aging process and is an essential ingredient of every anti-aging diet.

Faster Aging Is Blamed On Certain Foods

Among the consumables thought to be the cause of cell decline, meaning the cells that are replicated are weaker than the original cells, are the ones with elevated levels of carbohydrates. Also, consumables contained in this group are chocolate, sugar, chips, preserved meat, soy products and French fries, among many others as well. An anti-aging diet takes into account food and produce with an elevated level of concentration of heavy metals, which is thought to accelerate how fast a person ages.

Provisions such as, green leafy vegetables, seeds, raw nuts, seaweed, olive oil and barley greens are believed to aid in regeneration, which is how replicated cells turn into healthier cells compared to the dead ones being restored. An anti-aging diet consists of foods high in omega-3 fatty acids and vegetables and fruits, each of which have elevated amounts of antioxidants. In view of the fact that the total amount of food for this type of diet will be reduced, vitamin supplements are suggested.

In addition because of the modernization of farming procedures, not all foods that are grown include the indispensable supplements and minerals of B vitamins, Vitamin C, Vitamin A as well as folic acid. Supplementation of these vitamins are frequently required due to the lessor amounts contained in foods.

Korbin Newlyn
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/an-antiaging-diet-can-help-you-live-longer-108201.html

Are you one of these people that believe fervently that by keeping your body in shape will eventually lead to a much longer, healthier and happier life-span?

Well, it certainly helps, and those that treat their bodies like a temple certainly do enjoy a much more illness-free existence, and relative freedom from stress.

But there is one other area that many people ignore – at their peril – and that is the stress of keeping up with ‘The System’.

The System?

Yes – The System …

Most people are dragged into ‘The System’ from a very early age, and only a very few people ever manage to escape it – less than 1% in fact – and you can always tell those who have bucked this system, and done their own thing.

The System we are talking about here is a spin-off from the Industrial Revolution where the workers were paid just enough to meet their basic needs but not enough so that any of them could actually leave and do their own thing.

This has been translated into modern day society in that we are all taught from an early age that we should go to school, get a good education, get a good job, and work all your life until it comes to retirement. At least in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, many employers provided special houses for the long serving employees, so there was a good reason to be faithful and dutiful towards their bosses.

Perhaps until 50 or 60 years ago, a similar situation was in place with all sorts of State run pension schemes and the like – but not any more. State pensions, and even a lot of private pensions, are just not going to be able to provide anything like the simple needs of everybody, especially as the ‘Baby Boomers’ (kids born in the 40’s to 60’s) start reaching retirement age.

But look what is happening on the retirement front – are governments trying to make the situation better or worse? Well, they are running scared, as they are also fully aware the effect the massive expansion in retirement needs of the Baby Boomers are going to have on the economy, and are possibly looking at billions more needed in pension payouts. With more and more people looking for a wealthier life style, this is going to cause a lot of political issues.

In many countries in the world, there is much talk about governments increasing the age to qualify for your pension, and many are opting for the time you reach 70, rather than the old established retirement age of 65.

Now, you may think that’s fine – if you fancy working ’til you are old and shrivelled, with no hope of an active retirement, then that’s your choice. Me – I fancy having an eye still for the opposite sex in my ‘retirement’ years.

But – here’s another not so well-known fact – recently, a major insurance company just did some research on the effect of retirement age with regard to your active life span.

Did you know that:-

If you retire at 65, the average life expectancy is 71.

If you retire at 60, the average life expectancy is 76.

If you retire at 55, the average life expectancy is 81.

How clever – if your government increases the retirement age to 70, then by following ‘The System’ you will all probably be dead before you start to draw any money from the State, leaving all that tax money in the government’s very grateful coffers…

So, the sooner you retire, the longer your anticipated wealthier life span, not to mention a longer lifespan filled with abundance and plenty, a healthier lifestyle, and one filled with financial independence…

Now, how on earth does a normal person buck The System, creates their own wealthier life and become financially free of this system, that controls and rules most people’s lives?

Simple. They have ‘The Knowledge’.

They are taught by enlightened friends, mentors, or life coaches, that the way to succeed in this life is not to work for money, but make money work for you!

Let’s face it; you only have 24 hours in a day, seven days a week. Once those have been ’sold’ to your employer, there is nothing else available to you.

You need to know how to make money work for you…

Look at anybody with expensive ‘Toys’ – fast boats, the best cars, beautiful properties, and seemingly endless time on their hands…

If you want to be like them, and enjoy your own wealthier life, then you have to have ‘The Knowledge’. You have to know what they knew, to escape the system.

To get your financial independence, you need access to on line education, you need to understand how to manipulate stocks and shares, and how to get the best returns out of property investment, all topics that The System does not tell you anything about.

Why should it?

The System needs people like you to keep an orderly society going – after all, if we all knew ‘The Secret’ (care of Bob Proctor) then who would be around to wash our cars, clean our pools, do all the tasks in exchange for time that we don’t want to do…

Now, one of the best ways of getting this knowledge, used to be by attend training courses, seminars, or spend a fortune on self-improvement courses. But this takes an inordinate amount of time and money, and is very demanding on time and travel arrangements.

According to Peter Drucker in Forbes Magazine last year ( just before his death after a very distinguished career in information management that stretched back to the 1920’s) there is a much better way of getting this knowledge, that of on line learning, known as Webucation.

Webucation is earmarked to become the next massive trend on the internet, as more and more people demand this wealthier life style.

Where else are you going to get access to masses of training and learning courses from experts in property, stocks and shares, and other self-improvement courses, that you can call upon in the comfort of your own home, at time to suit you to help create your wealthier life style?

There are an increasing number of ‘Webucation’ style sites appearing on the internet today, and they really represent the way forward as a means of getting ‘The Knowledge’ to produce your own wealthier life style and escaping from ‘The System.’

Rather than spending a fortune on multitudes of courses and sometimes travelling half way round the world to attend; for a small monthly fee, you can have them all, in the comfort of your own home at a time to suit your needs. Many of them not only teach you ‘The Knowledge’ but the better ones also have the ability to build your own business by getting you to ’spread the word’ to friends and colleagues, generating a very substantial extra income stream. Rather than committing to hours and hours of concentred learning, just 15 minutes a day on a regular basis will usually do the trick for you and really create this magical wealthier life style.

See how ‘They’ made it to where they are in property, stocks and shares, and when you have created your wealthier life , make sure you know how to protect your assets.

Learn from many celebrity millionaires who have learnt to Buck the System, and are now living lives full of abundance and freedom…

If you are interested in this style of ‘Earn and Learn’ process, when you choose which company to work with, make sure they have a powerful way of helping you build up your own network of users, and also make sure the commission structure and pay plan is as simple and as uncomplicated but as rewarding as possible.

But above all, you owe it to yourself if you want this wealthier life to make the decision NOW to make sure you do not spend the rest of your life trapped in The System.

After all, why not retire early, live a longer wealthier life, and make sure you have created sufficient income streams to support a life of abundance.

The alternative really is unthinkable…

Geoff Morris
http://www.articlesbase.com/finance-articles/who-else-wants-to-buck-the-system-and-live-a-longer-happier-and-wealthier-life-140562.html