Green Tea Helps Cut Cholesterol

Drinking a cup of green tea on a regular basis it can cut cholesterol in the body, and has many health benefits. Panelitian according to some researchers at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, recently.

Xin-Xin Zheng and colleagues from Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, conducted a study of 14 individuals of respondents who are required to drink green tea or green tea extract for three months. The result, in this way can result in a significant reduction in bad cholesterol in the blood, but still let the good cholesterol in the body.

According to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the substance in green tea called catechins may help absorb the bad cholesterol.

Proven to reduce cholesterol by 7.2 milligrams per deciliter. The amount of LDL cholesterol in the body also fell an average of 2.2 mg / dl, or at least reduced by two per cent of cholesterol levels .* / zeenews/liputan6