<☆>1. How much tea should a normal person drink a day?

<☆>The amount of tea consumed depends on tea drinking habits, age, health status, living environment, customs and other factors. Generally healthy adults, who have the habit of drinking tea, drink about 12 grams of tea a day, and it is appropriate to brew it in 3-4 times. For people who do a lot of physical work, consume a lot, and eat a lot, especially people who live in high temperature environments and are exposed to a lot of toxic substances, drinking about 20 grams of tea a day is also suitable. People who eat a lot of greasy food and smoke and drink a lot can also increase the amount of tea. Pregnant women, children, people with neurasthenia, and people with tachycardia should reduce their tea consumption appropriately.

<☆>2. The chemical composition of tea and its health care effects on the human body

<☆>The chemical composition of tea is composed of 3.5-7.0% inorganic substances and 93-96.5% of organic matter. There are about 27 kinds of inorganic mineral elements in tea, including phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, magnesium, manganese, fluorine, and aluminum. , calcium, sodium, iron, copper, zinc, selenium, etc. The organic compounds in tea mainly include proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, alkaloids, tea polyphenols, organic acids, pigments, aroma components, vitamins, saponins, and sterols

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<☆>Tea contains 20-30% leaf protein, but only about 3.5% is soluble in tea soup. Tea contains 1.5-4% free amino acids, with more than 20 kinds

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<☆> Most of them are essential amino acids for the human body. Tea contains 25-30% carbohydrates, but only 3-4% is soluble in tea soup.

Tea contains

<☆>4-5% lipids, which are also necessary for the human body.

<☆>3. There are many kinds of tea at home, how to arrange drinking?

<☆>Some people drink different tea at different times during the day, and drink a cup of light tea in the morning. High-end green tea can refresh the brain and clear the heart; drink a cup of jasmine tea in the morning, which is fragrant and pleasant, and can improve work efficiency; drink a cup of black tea in the afternoon to relieve sleepiness and refresh yourself; During your break, drink a cup of milky black tea

or a cup of high-grade green tea with some snacks and fruits to supplement your nutrition; in the evening, you can gather with a few friends or family members to get together. Make a pot of oolong tea and drink tea while talking

with your heart.

<☆>It’s a special kind of fun. If you are interested in this clever arrangement for drinking tea one day, you might as well give it a try.

<☆>4. How to prepare milk black tea?

<☆>Many young people like to drink delicious milk black tea. The brewing method is to first put an appropriate amount of black tea into the teapot. The amount of tea leaves

is better than that of clear drink

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<☆>A little more, then pour in hot boiling water. After about 5 minutes, pour the tea soup from the spout and put it into a coffee cup; if it is a black tea bag, you can put one

< p>Put the tea bag with the bag in place

<☆>In a coffee cup, brew with hot boiling water for 5 minutes and discard the tea bag. Then add an appropriate amount of milk and sugar cubes into the tea cup. The amount of milk should be adjusted to make the milk tea

<☆> orange-red or yellow-red. If the amount of milk is too much, the soup will be gray and white, and the tea aroma will be weak. If the amount of milk is too little, the flavor of milk tea will be lost. The amount of sugar will vary from person to person, and the amount of sugar will be suitable for your taste. .

<☆>5. Why do some people like to add wolfberry, American ginseng, white chrysanthemum, orange peel, mint, etc. to tea to make tea?

<☆>Use wolfberry Brewing tea has nourishing and anti-aging effects. "Compendium of Materia Medica" has made a more comprehensive discussion on the efficacy of wolfberry: "Lycium barbarum is moist

and nourishing

<☆>and can also reduce fever and is specialized in It is used to nourish the kidneys, moisten the lungs, promote fluid production, and replenish qi. It is an important medicine for replenishing internal heat due to insufficient liver and kidney yin and fatigue.

Seventy-eight percent of the cases of yin deficiency

<☆> , so taking most of it is the best product for replenishing energy and improving eyesight.” Drinking wolfberry in tea can not only treat dizziness, vision loss, waist

soreness and weakness in knees, and insomnia caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency

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<☆>Jingtai is very effective when taken for a long time, and it also has certain effects on hyperlipidemia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, etc.

<☆>Using American ginseng slices to make tea can make use of the sweet, pungent and cool nature of American ginseng to adjust the taste of the tea, and American ginseng is very effective in replenishing yin deficiency.

This

Western

<☆>ginseng tea often has good effects on nourishing the lungs and stomach, nourishing yin and fluid, clearing away fire, and removing low-grade fever.

>Drinking tea can enhance the aroma and palatability of tea soup

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<☆>It is beneficial to drink it for those with excessive phlegm.

<☆>Good medicine.

<☆>6. Can pregnant women and children drink tea?

<☆>Pregnant women and children are generally not advised to drink strong tea because too strong tea contains excessive caffeine. It will cause tachycardia in pregnant women and excessive stimulation to the fetus, as well as children. Therefore, it is generally recommended that pregnant women and children should drink light tea. By drinking some light tea, you can supplement some vitamins and potassium, zinc and other mineral nutrients. Children drinking tea in moderation can strengthen gastrointestinal motility and help digestion; drinking tea has the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire, preventing children from dry stools and anal fissures. In addition, children drinking tea or gargling with tea can also prevent dental caries.

<☆>7. How to use tea to stop dysentery?

<☆>The tea polyphenols in tea have the effect of killing or inhibiting a variety of pathogens, so it can Use tea to treat bacillary dysentery. The method

is to first grind

<☆>green tea into powder, take 3 grams of tea powder with warm tea, and then continue to drink some tea three times a day to get better results. Good curative effect.

<☆>8. What are the benefits of washing your face, feet, hair, bathing and gargling with tea?

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<☆>Wash your face and take a bath with tea, which can reduce the occurrence of skin diseases and make your skin shiny, smooth and soft. Use gauze dipped in tea and apply it on the dark circles of the eyes, 1-2 times a day, for 20-30 minutes each time, to eliminate dark circles. Washing hands and feet with tea and dregs can prevent and treat chapped feet,

prevent and treat eczema,

<☆>relieve itching, and reduce foot odor from sweaty feet. Washing your hair with tea can make your hair black, soft, shiny and beautiful; brushing your eyebrows with tea can make your eyebrows

thick and shiny

<☆>; gargling with tea can Eliminate bad breath, help protect teeth, and prevent and treat oral diseases.

<☆>9. Why should you drink more tea after eating salted vegetables and cured meat products?

<☆>Salted vegetables such as kimchi, pickled pickles and cured meat products such as Cured meats, bacon, ham, sausages, etc. often contain more nitrates. When there are secondary amines in food

at the same time, nitrates will It can react chemically with secondary amines to produce nitrosamines, which are dangerous

carcinogens that can easily cause cell mutations and cause cancer. The catechins in tea can block the synthesis of nitrosamines, so after eating salted

vegetables and pickled meat

<☆>you should Drinking more high-grade green tea with higher catechin content can inhibit the formation of carcinogens and enhance immune function, which is beneficial to health

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<☆>10. Why should diabetic patients drink more tea?

<☆>The symptoms of diabetic patients are high blood sugar, thirst, and fatigue. Experiments have shown that drinking tea can effectively lower blood sugar, quench thirst, and enhance physical strength. Diabetic patients are generally advised to drink green tea. The amount of tea they drink can be slightly increased, and they can be brewed several times a day to maintain a sufficient concentration of the active ingredients of the tea in the body. While drinking tea, you can eat some papaya food, which has a synergistic effect. One month is a course of treatment, and good curative effects can usually be achieved.

<☆>11. What kind of tea can help you lose weight?

<☆>As far as pure tea is concerned, general experience holds that drinking oolong tea, Tuo tea, Pu'er tea and brick tea is the most important. Pressed tea is more conducive to lowering fat and losing weight.

As for healthy tea, there are many kinds of slimming tea currently available on the market, such as Ninghong slimming tea, bodybuilding slimming tea, Qizhu bodybuilding tea, Shanghai healthy tea, etc., all of which are based on

< p>Tea-based preparation

<☆>A variety of Chinese herbal medicines such as cassia seeds, hawthorn, lotus leaves, etc. are packaged into tea bags. It is convenient to drink, and the efficacy varies from person to person, and each has certain adaptations

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<☆>12. Drinking black tea has many benefits

<☆>Black tea is made by fermentation and baking During fermentation, the tea leaves turn into red oxides under the action of oxidase and become black tea. Black tea has a mild character and a mellow taste. In addition to containing a variety of water-soluble vitamins, it is also rich in trace element potassium. When brewed, 70% of the potassium is soluble in the tea. Potassium has the function of

enhancing heart blood

<☆> circulation and can reduce the consumption of calcium in the body. Because the manganese contained in black tea is one of the indispensable elements of bone structure, regular drinking of black tea is also good for strong bones. Foreign data have reported that regular drinking of black tea can also prevent and treat influenza, stroke and skin cancer.

<☆>Research shows that because black tea contains a flavonoid compound that acts like an antioxidant, it can prevent stroke and heart disease. A latest study in the United States shows that people who drink a cup of black tea every day have a 40% lower risk of heart disease than those who do not drink tea.

<☆>13. It is not advisable to drink tea after meals

<☆>Drinking tea immediately after meals will inevitably dilute gastric juice and affect food digestion. At the same time, the tannins in tea can make The coagulated substances in food add burden to the stomach and affect protein absorption. It is best to drink tea one hour after a meal.

<☆>14. Drinking tea can reduce the harm of smoking

<☆>According to a study jointly completed by the World Health Organization, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the American Cancer Society*** A survey report on smoking said that

Currently

<☆>one person dies from diseases caused by smoking every 10 seconds, and at least 100,000 people die from diseases caused by smoking every year in the world. 3.15 million people have died due to smoking, and

this number is still increasing

<☆>; the number of smokers in China has reached more than 300 million, and more than 15,000 cigarettes are consumed every year billion, accounting for more than 30% of the world's total consumption

More than 70% of China's middle-aged men smoke, and one person dies from smoking every minute . If the number of smokers in China continues to increase, it is expected that 5 people will die from smoking every minute.

This is undoubtedly a warning sign for

<☆>smokers. From a health perspective, quitting smoking is imperative. For those smokers who still find it difficult to quit smoking

<☆>drinking tea is the best way to reduce the harm of smoking. Because the tea polyphenols, vitamin C and other components in tea have a degradation effect on various harmful substances contained in cigarettes, smoking while drinking tea will remove toxins It can be relieved by drinking tea and excreted through feces. Smokers often drink tea

which has four main benefits

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< p><☆>First, it can reduce the possibility of smoking-induced cancer. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical substances, of which more than 50 are carcinogens and are most beneficial to these substances when absorbed through the respiratory tract. Carcinogens in cigarettes spread throughout the body. Long-term smoking can not only cause lung cancer, but also esophageal cancer, laryngeal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and kidney cancer. Smokers account for 80% to 99.5% of patients with bladder cancer and other cancers, especially lung cancer. Researchers from the Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, have clarified the relationship between smoking and lung cancer from a molecular perspective, pointing out that group mutations caused by smoking are the direct cause of lung tumors. Drinking tea has anti-cancer effects. The tea polyphenols in tea can inhibit the release of free radicals and control the proliferation of cancer cells. Free radicals are a group of harmful "garbage" produced by the human body while consuming oxygen during the respiratory metabolism process. It exists in almost every cell of the human body and is a major hidden danger and "ticking time bomb" of the human body. Research shows that free radicals are also an important cause of genetic mutation and carcinogenesis. Under normal circumstances, the human body is in a dynamic balance where free radicals are constantly produced and eliminated.

It is worth pointing out that cigarettes are free radical generators. According to measurements, people can produce 10 to the 17th power of free radicals every day they smoke. Smoking will destroy this dynamic

Balance. Excessive production of free radicals increases the possibility of human cancer.

<☆>Catechins, the main component of tea polyphenols in tea, are antioxidants and strong inhibitors of free radicals. It can inhibit the occurrence of tumors

<☆>caused by smoking. The tea polyphenols in green tea have a strong ability to scavenge free radicals, and they have a strong scavenging effect on superoxide anion free radicals.

Chinese Preventive Medicine

<☆>The Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Academy of Sciences, after studying 145 kinds of tea, confirmed that tea does have the ability to block the synthesis of nitrosamines in the human body.

Power. Yan Yusen from Nanjing Zhongshan Cancer Research Institute found through experiments that tea polyphenols can combine with carcinogens after entering the human body, causing them to decompose and reduce carcinogenic activity, thus

Inhibits the growth of cancer-causing cells

<☆>. Dorothy Moore, who is engaged in food and nutrition research at Purdue University in the United States, said: "Our research shows that green tea leaves are rich in anti-cancer substances

<☆> , its concentration is quite high enough to produce anti-cancer effects in the body. "The American Health Foundation has 40 years of experience in cancer research. Chief Dr. John Weisberg said: "My research results show that if you drink 6 cups of tea a day, you can avoid cancer."

Columbia University, USA

<☆>Research results from researchers at Harlem Medical Center also show that green tea has anti-cancer effects. Therefore, smokers drinking tea can help reduce the occurrence of cancer.

<☆>Second, it can help reduce radiation pollution caused by smoking. According to Dr. Joseph Dufresne of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, he estimates that a person who smokes 30 cigarettes a day will receive an amount of radiation equivalent to the amount of radioactive material in cigarettes in his lungs in one year. The skin was examined about 300 times on the

chest X-ray machine

<☆>. Drinking tea can effectively prevent radioactive substances from invading the bone marrow and quickly excrete strontium-90 and strontium-60 from the body.

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The children in tea Theophylline

<☆>substances and lipopolysaccharide substances can reduce the harm of radiation to the human body and have a significant protective effect on hematopoietic function. Clinical trials using tea leaves to treat mild radiation sickness caused by radiation have shown that the total effective rate can reach 90%.

<☆>Third, it can prevent and treat cataracts caused by smoking. Scientific research has found that smoking is becoming a major enemy of eye health and can promote cataracts. Researchers at Harvard Medical School in the United States found that compared with those who never smoked, people who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day were more likely to develop cataracts

<☆> It is twice that of non-smokers. The greater the amount of smoking, the greater the possibility of cataracts. Among the unexplained blindness in our country,

4% are caused by

<☆>smoking. Canadian scientists have discovered that drinking more tea can prevent cataracts. They believe that cataracts are caused by free radicals acting on the lens of the eye due to oxidation reactions in the human body, and the decomposition of tea polyphenols in tea has Antioxidant metabolites can prevent

the occurrence of oxidation reactions produced by

<☆>radicals in the body. In addition, scientists from the Nutrition and Aging Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture recently discovered that the incidence of cataracts is related to the level and concentration of carotene in the plasma of the human body. close. For cataract patients, the concentration of carotene in their plasma is often very low, and the incidence rate is 3 to 4 times higher than that of normal people. Tea contains much higher levels of carotene than ordinary vegetables and fruits. Carotene not only prevents cataracts and protects eyes, but also has anti-cancer, anti-nicotine, and detoxifying effects. It is good for smokers to drink tea to protect their eyesight.

<☆>Fourth, it can replenish the vitamin C consumed by smoking.

Smoking can cause vitamin C in human serum to combine with carbon monoxide, nitrosamines, nicotine, formaldehyde and other oxidative carcinogens in smoke, and then convert them into non-toxic compounds or non-mutated substances for discharge. Outside the body, the

vitamin C content

<☆> is greatly reduced, leading to a large accumulation of garbage in the human body - free radicals, leaving hidden dangers to the human body and exacerbating the free radicals Damage

<☆>to various normal cells. For example, inhaling harmful substances such as nicotine increases the concentration of oxygen free radicals in cells. Oxygen free radicals have a harmful effect on human cells

and can easily lead to carcinogenesis. American researchers have found that regular supplementation of a certain dose of vitamin C can Avoid the dangers of smoking.

Because vitamin C has antioxidant effects, it can inhibit the generation of oxygen free radicals and protect human cells from damage. The content of vitamin C in tea is relatively rich

especially in green tea. Under normal circumstances, the leaching rate of vitamin C in tea can reach about 80%, and the vitamin C in tea soup

It is rarely damaged at temperatures of 90 degrees Celsius. Smokers can get an appropriate amount of vitamin C by drinking tea, especially if they insist on drinking green tea.

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To supplement the vitamin C caused by smoking C is insufficient to maintain the dynamic balance of producing and removing free radicals in the human body and enhance the body's resistance

ability.

<☆>All in all, although drinking tea has certain benefits for smokers, the purpose of this article is by no means to encourage people to smoke, let alone because drinking tea can relieve smoking

Smoking can be carried out unscrupulously due to the dangers. On the contrary, since the harm caused by smoking is huge and tragic both to individuals and to society, quitting smoking is a general trend and a wise move. . Drinking tea can only be used as a remedy in the process of quitting smoking to

reduce the harm of

<☆>smoking as much as possible. For your health, quitting smoking completely is our ultimate goal. What's more, there are many benefits for non-smokers to drink tea!

<☆>15. Regular drinking of green tea is beneficial to the fetus

<☆>Modern medical research has proven that zinc plays an extremely important role in the human body. Zinc deficiency in children will affect growth and development; zinc deficiency in pregnant women will affect fetal development and may even cause congenital malformations. Therefore, pregnant women should eat more zinc-containing foods.

<☆>Zinc-containing foods and drinks in daily life include green tea, cocoa powder, ruta, seaweed, etc. Among them, green tea has the highest zinc content and should be consumed every day

2-3 cups of tea brewed with 3-5 grams

<☆>of ordinary green tea can meet the body's zinc requirements. A medical research survey shows that babies born to pregnant women who drink tea also have higher zinc levels in their blood.

<☆>It is worth noting that drinking tea must be in moderation. Excessive tea drinking will affect the absorption of iron. It is best for pregnant women to drink tea at a temperature of about 80℃-85℃

Drink as the water brews. Do not over-brew or leave it for too long, and it is not easy to make it too strong each time. It is better to drink more in batches. .