The "heart" health benefits of green tea!
#GenghisGrillAd and #HealthKwest. Today challenge is to answer this question on Facebook: How does green tea help with heart health?
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As a nurse, I find that I am weary of marketing ads about the health benefits of various dietary supplement. I teach students that they should be sure that the information they provide patients in based on actual evidence. We call this evidence-based practice. A high level of evidence is achieved when researchers conduct a systematic review or metanalysis. Therefore, I was please to find a recent systematic review in the journal of Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular disease Volume 24, Issue 8, August 2014, pages 823-836. A systematic review and metaanalysis was conducted by Onakpoya, Spencer, Heneghan and Thomposn (2014) on the effectiveness of green tea on blood pressure and lipid parameters. The study included 474 citation and 20 randomized control trials. The results revealed that drinking Green tea results in significant reductions in systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol. Based on these and numerous other supportive studies, my friends and I are drinking green tea.
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