July 18th, 2010 
admin What do you think of when you hear the words tea polyphenols? Okuma’s Wu-Long tea stands above the rest because of it’s number of tea polyphenols. Everyone should know about the positive effects that tea polyphenols have on peoples’ overall health.
What’s one of the hottest topics in most magazines now a days? The hottest topic is staying in shape because it’s something everyone needs to do. Staying fit not only helps you look good, but it makes you feel good and stay healthy as well.
Most people want to stay healthy naturally and easily. Doctors and researchers are seeing that tea polyphenols can help. Doctors are noticing that polyphenols help with weight loss. This is an antioxidant that naturally helps you stay healthy (even helping prevent cancer and heart disease) and lose weight.
What Are Tea Polyphenols?
Polyphenols have been studied for over a decade and are founnd in many plant forms, including tea, wine, nuts, fruits and vegetables. The bright colors of fruits and vegetables can be blamed on polyphenols. You want to know about its potency in the foods, though.
Polyphenol is most potent in the leaves of a plant, which is why tea is your best bet. Flavonoids are a subclass of tea polyphenols and is the most potent of the plant antioxidants.
What Are The Benefits Of Tea Polyphenols?
Tea polyphenols help boost your immune system to fight off diseases.
Tea polyphenols protect humans from diseases just like they protect the tea plants from diseases. Polyphenols fight free radicals. Free radicals are toxins in our bodies that we receive from pollution and other elements in the environment. They stop the free radicals before they can cause cellular damage.
Tea polyphenols are disease preventors.
Tea polyphenols can help reduce the risk of cancer because it protects cell membranes and prevents cellular DNA damage.
Weight Loss and Polyphenols
The tea polyphenols in Oolong tea also help with obesity. The International Journal on Obesity states that Oolong tea helps stop the absorption of fat in the body, which helps reduce the risk of obesity.
There are many other studies that prove tea polyphenols in Oolong tea help people lose weight. One other is by the University Tokushima School of Medicine. He concluded that Oolong tea is limited to fat and carbohydrate absorption, as well as helped to improve metabolism.
This tea has 0 calories, so it's a much healthier choice than soda diet or most other drinks.
Oolong tea also has with many other health benefits including:
Helps in lowering plasma glucose in type 2 diabetic patients
Decreases LDL cholesterol
Lowers blood pressure
Recude gum disease causing bacteria
Helps in clearing problem skin
Helping reduce hair loss
Oolong tea has half the caffeine and double the amounts of tea polyphenols than other teas because of its fermentation process. {Wu-Long tea, through Okuma’s proprietary semi-fermentation process produces an even higher amount of tea polyphenols. )
Now the unit weight of polyphenols Wu-Long tea is available in tablet form! Also, learn about weight loss supplements PolyTeaNx, which consists of Wu-Long tea extract.
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