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Green tea contains nutrients known as epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG. Since thousands of years ago, green tea has been used for health as nutrition and high antioxidant.

Green tea also helps streamline the body, and protects the body from various diseases. You will definitely fall in love with green tea if you know five main reasons why you should drink green tea every day.

1. Burn fat
Green tea can reduce the fat in the body. EGCG actives content to increase fat burning process. If you want to get your body slim, frequently drank green tea.

2. Preventing potbelly
Other research in the Tufts University, United States, showed EGCG in green tea fat burners to activate genes in the stomach. The gene can accelerate weight loss up to 77 percent.

3. Creating a stable energy
Green tea does not make your energy up and down by balancing blood sugar. Substance EGCG increased use of insulin in the body to prevent blood sugar spikes that can cause fatigue, irritability, and desire for healthy food is not high enough.

4. Reducing the risk of lung cancer
Green tea also reduces the risk of lung cancer. The disease experienced by many urban residents who every day breathes in pollution. The study, published in April 2010 in Cancer Prevention Research, showed EGCG can suppress the growth of lung cancer cells.

5 Create beautiful skin
Green tea can also slow the aging of skin due to EGCG 200 times more powerful than vitamin E in destroying free radicals that damage skin. Free radicals will react with healthy cells in the body, thus reducing the amount of damage and can help reduce wrinkles and other signs of aging. For that, make sure the cell body in good health by drinking green tea every day, in order to fight free radicals

Ilona Hauber, PhD, researcher from the Heinrich-Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology, Hamburg-Germany says green tea and SEVI able to counteract against the HIV virus.

Hauber explained as published the National Academy of Sciences, SEVI is beta-amyloid fibril formed from prostate proteins in semen. Beta-amyloids are also found in people with neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

EGCG (molecules contained in green tea) is a compound that can fight the formation of beta-amyloid. Hence green tea leaves can be an alternative anti-HIV drugs affordable and effective in reducing the risk of HIV transmission.

The results of laboratory tests conducted by Hauber and his colleagues showed that one element capable of counteracting SEVI is EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate), the type of catechin largest amount in green tea leaves that have beneficial health effects as anti-tumor, anti – microbial and anti-allergic.

EGCG is a lot contained in green tea leaves, can reduce the risk of HIV transmission by blocking the risk semen carrying HIV virus. More good content of green tea is not harmful to the cells of the human body if consumed or used on a regular basis.

Vaginal gel Anti-HIV
One of the findings found to be ECGC allow vaginal lubrication. Can be used to protect women from the risk of contracting the HIV virus during sexual activity.

Like ordinary lubricant that does not cause irritation, but with additional functions for the active substance able to maintain vaginal acidity level remained stable and off the bad bacteria.

EGCG has a balanced acidity, so Hauber suggested to use it as an additional element of the vaginal gel anti-HIV. Because no side effects, enable ECGC to be used together with drugs anti-HIV.