The effect of green tea on cardiovascular diseases
A member of the faculty of the Pharmacology and Applied Medicine Research Group of the Jihad University Medicinal Plants Research Institute, referring to the substance contained in green tea and one of its functions is to protect the heart by reducing blood lipids, added: Studies have shown that diseases and death may occur. Reduce the risk of diabetic cardiomyopathy and other complications of diabetes, and therefore green tea may also be helpful in preventing and treating these complications.
Dr. Saeed Kianbakht, while announcing this matter, clarified: One of the complications of cardiovascular diseases is called diabetic cardiomyopathy, in which due to defects and disorders that occur in the heart muscle of diabetic patients, the heart is unable to rotate its work. Bleeding in the body is to do optimally.
Referring to the substances present in green tea and one of its functions is to protect the heart by reducing blood lipids, Kianbakht added: Studies have shown that it may reduce diseases and deaths due to diabetic cardiomyopathy and other complications of diabetes. Therefore, green tea may be useful for the prevention and treatment of these complications.
Evidence shows that eating green tea instead of black tea also prevents coronary heart disease, said the faculty member of the Medicinal Plants Research Institute. In coronary heart disease, one or more of the coronary arteries that are responsible for supplying blood to the heart become blocked by fat deposits (cholesterol and triglycerides) in their walls, disrupting blood flow to the heart, which may lead to Cause a heart attack.
Kianbakht said: Studies have shown that green tea reduces the concentration of total cholesterol and a type of harmful cholesterol, but has no effect on the concentration of beneficial cholesterol in the blood and triglycerides.
According to the public relations of the Research Institute of Medicinal Plants, he said that the effect of green tea on the concentration of blood fats increases with increasing its duration. Eating green tea is harmless, but consuming large amounts of it, especially in pregnant women, may cause iron deficiency. Be the body folate.