Who is healthier, drinking tea regularly or not?

Tea is one of the three major beverages in the world, and it is also popular in China. People like to make a pot of tea to chat, get together with relatives and friends, or discuss business while eating. Many people also have the habit of drinking tea for a long time. So who will be healthier if you drink tea for a long time or not?

Functional components in tea

Tea contains many functional components, including tea polyphenols, amino acids, caffeine, tea polysaccharides, theaflavins and so on. Tea polyphenols have the functions of antioxidation, cancer prevention and prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Amino acids can replenish energy and improve immunity; Tea polysaccharide also has the functions of lowering blood pressure, blood lipid, blood sugar and enhancing immunity. Therefore, drinking tea has a certain effect on preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

What are the benefits of drinking tea for a long time?

1. Replenish water to prevent kidney calculi.

People who like to drink tea must consume a lot of water every day, and drinking tea also has a certain diuretic effect, so the urine volume will increase accordingly. Increasing drinking water will increase blood volume, dilute acidic substances such as uric acid, and increase urine volume will also increase the excretion of uric acid and harmful substances, so it has a certain effect on preventing stones.

2. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases

Tea polyphenols, tea polysaccharides and other substances in tea have certain antihypertensive, hypoglycemic and lipid-lowering effects, and long-term drinking can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Refreshing thinking

Tea contains caffeine. Drinking a cup of tea when you are sleepy is undoubtedly a healthier way to refresh yourself than smoking.

4. Enhance immunity

Amino acids and tea polysaccharides in tea also have the functions of enhancing immunity and preventing diseases.

Who is healthier, drinking tea for a long time or not?

Because of the complexity of the human body, it is difficult to give a clear answer. But generally speaking, people who drink tea for a long time will feel healthier, because drinking tea has certain advantages in preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will increase with age, so the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in people who drink tea for a long time will be lower. And people who drink tea for a long time may have higher immunity and fewer diseases.

Although drinking tea has a certain effect, it should also be combined with a healthy lifestyle and cannot replace drugs to treat diseases. Therefore, we should not over-deify the function of tea, but advocate scientific and moderate drinking of tea, which is the guarantee to maintain good health.

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