Sunday, November 30, 2008

White tea - Three times more effective than green tea

By Jack Robbins

White tea and Green tea both find their roots in China dating back to a few thousand years ago. Green tea has become quite popular over the past decade particularly with its ability to aid weight loss. Both originate from the same Camilla sinensis plant.

The two herbal teas find their differences in benefit and taste due to the way they are plucked from the Camilla sinensis plant. White tea is plucked at a very early stage when the leaves are still buds, while in the case of green tea the leaf is left to grow a little before it is then plucked.

White tea has recently been seen to show amazing characteristics particularly with regard to weight loss and anti aging. It surpasses some of the benefits of green tea almost three times in effectiveness.

White tea has remarkably shown to have much higher levels of radical fighting antioxidants than green tea. These are responsible for increasing metabolism rate, which in turn lets you lose weight while not doing any exercise at all.

White tea has a much more mellow and sweet taste as compared to green tea. Its delightful taste alone caused Chinese people to treat it as a delicacy available only to the upper class families. It makes it much easier to stick to a diet that includes white tea as more often than not you won't be able to wait for your next serving.

The caffeine levels in white tea are much less compared to green tea. Now, you can enjoy a refreshing drink without having to worry about any side effects of caffeine to your body.

white tea is in fact more effective as an alternative treatments against cancer than green tea ever will be. It simply has more antioxidants which can revert the ability of cancer cells as well at attempt to prevent new ones from forming

With so much gunning for white tea, you would now have even more reason to try it out and improve your lifestyle. - 16732

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