Health Benefits of Brown-Brewed-Tea

Health Benefits of  Brown-Brewed-Tea

With its crisp, slightly astringent flavor, iced tea helps keep you cool in the warmer months while replenishing your body's fluid levels. The Harvard School of Public Health lists tea as one of the best sources of hydration, second only to water. Opting for unsweetened iced tea means you'll increase your intake of essential nutrients and compounds. This benefits your health as you avoid the nutritional disadvantages associated with sweetened iced tea.

1.Tea for Beauty

Don't toss your morning tea bag, put them in a plastic baggy in the refrigerator and use them:

On your eyes to relieve puffiness or freshen them up after a late night.

Brunettes, use a rinse of black tea for rich dark shine to your hair.

Blondes can use a rinse of Chamomile tea to bring out your natural highlights

For a temporary look of summer sun kissed skin without the UV rays, you can brew up a bath of plain black tea and soak for 20 minutes.

After washing your face, uses a cool tea rinse to help with acne.  Tea has great astringent properties.

2.Your heart 

A study of more than 40,000 adults found that women who drank five or more cups of green tea a day had a 31 percent lower risk of death from heart disease than those who downed less than one. Other research linked black tea to lower LDL cholesterol.

3.Your bones

Studies indicate that phytochemicals in tea, such as flavonoids, may protect against bone loss: Regular tea drinkers have higher bone density than non-tea drinkers.

4.Your skin

 EGCG, the main polyphenol in green tea, has anticancer properties that may prevent the development of skin tumors. In an animal study, green-tea extracts reduced the severity of exposure to UV radiation.

5.Low in Sugar and Calories

Unsweetened iced tea has two major advantages over sweet tea -- it's lower in calories and sugar. An 8-ounce serving of packaged sweet iced tea contains 89 calories and 22 grams of sugar, while an equivalent portion of brewed, unsweetened black iced tea contains just 2 calories, less than a gram of carbohydrates and no added sugar. Switching from sweet tea to unsweetened iced tea makes it easier to stay under your recommended added sugar limit -- 24 grams daily for women and 36 grams for men, according to the Harvard School of Public Health -- and helps you avoid the negative side effects of eating sugar, which include weight gain.