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Phood for Thought

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Growing up, I never really drank tea. But one day, when I was away at college, I got sick. I got sick, and like all sick, helpless college students, I needed my mother. She told me to pick up a box of green tea, and although I was skeptical at first, I heeded her advice. Since then, it has become one of my "happy foods".




Yes, I love tea of the green persuasion, and anything that uses it as an ingredient. Green tea shampoos, green tea conditioners, green tea lotions, green tea lip glosses. I can't get enough of the stuff. I would bathe in a vat of green tea if I could. Wait, can you bathe in a vat of green tea?

Anyway, I think it's the combination of the flavor, and the fact I know what green tea can actually do for the body. In addition to its calming and soothing effects, it's got EGCG in it (which stands for some really long, unpronounceable word) which helps ward-off cancer cells. EGCG is also a lot stronger than resveratrol, which is the stuff that's in red wine and perhaps the reason why French people have a lower history of heart disease than Americans. You know, cause French people drink a lot of red wine. And so Chinese people, who put green tea in everything, have an even lower rate of heart disease than French people.



And because the leaves in green tea are steamed, unlike the leaves of other Chinese teas, the EGCG isn't oxidized and thus turned into other things. How's that for a science lesson?

That's why Phix is so cool; it's an energy-booster, but an energy booster made with all of these yummy green tea anti-oxidants - so automatically, I know that that energy is gonna be more of a calming wave than a crashing plunge.

Call me crazy, but I think green tea is truly a "happy food" for the body and soul.

....kind of like fast food, except not. Not at all.

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