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If you are planning on including decaffeinated green tea to your daily lifestyle? think again. The benefits of drinking green tea are numerous and can even cure serious illness and diseases. Decaffeinated green tea is one delightful way to enjoy your favorite beverage. It is done by brewing the tea for several minutes to lessen the amount of caffeine and the bitterness made by the plant.  Millions of green tea drinkers all over the world follow the same procedure in preparing their usual morning drink. But did you know that this process loses some of green tea’s important substances that are beneficial to our body? In this article, you will discover some of important facts and the disadvantages of decaffeinated green tea.

Caffeine is one of basic substance of green tea that plays an important role for most people’s lives especially to those who works at night. Although we know that caffeine is one of the factors of sleeping problems that may lead to exhaustion and poor brain performance. But it provides alertness and energy as long as it is taken with moderation. It also contributes in assisting anti-cancer activities of the anti-oxidants of green tea. Caffeine also helps burn abdominal fats when combined with catechins that may help reduce the risk of weight problems and heart disease. However, green tea that went to the process of decaffeination loses most of its caffeine content.

Decaffeination also loses its anti-oxidant substances. Anti-oxidants help get rid toxins in our body. According to scientific studies, decaffeinated green teas only have half anti-oxidant content compared to other non-decaffeinated green teas. They also measured the cathechin content of green teas compared to the decaffeinated ones and they came to find that regular unprocessed green tea contains 21/103 mg/gram while decaffeinated ones only contains 4 to 39 mg/gram. Researchers believe that green tea loses these important and helpful substances due to this procedure.

As for its advantages, drinking green tea is not bad for you. It is just a less bitter and less caffeinated version of the regular green tea. Although the benefits that you are getting from the decaffeinated ones are fewer, but you can still reach the same benefits of the non-processed green tea if you drink more quantity. For most tea drinkers, this is a great advantage for they can have as much green tea as they want without thinking or risking their health.

Green tea’s side effects are somehow considered as an advantage by most tea drinkers. The benefits of green tea are popular to millions of people worldwide. In fact, it is a recommended alternative energy drink instead of coffee due to its herbal substances that can cure several types of illness. It has less sugar and has no fattening content. However like most products too much of everything becomes harmful. This article will let you know some of the common and unknown illness caused by green tea’s side effects.

1. Green tea’s caffeine content may be beneficial to those who needs to boost their energy and to those who needs to stay up late at night. But too much intake of green tea may develop disturbing disorders that may affect your lifestyle. Sleeping disorder is one of its common side effects that you may also get from coffee due to its caffeine content. Restlessness, heart palpitation, and irritability are some of the effects of lack of sleep.

2. It also causes loss of appetite which is an advantage especially to those who wants to lose weight. Green tea contains substances that help burn calories. However, the weight loss substances of green tea may lead to serious complications if taken in large quantity. FDA reported that there 4 young women died due to these factors.

3. Instant iced green tea products are now out in the market. There are now more convenient ways to drink green tea. Bottled, loose and bagged. But in 2005, concerns about drinking instant and cheap green tea products was raised when a middle aged women was diagnosed skeletal fluorosis. Skeletal fluorosis is caused by excessive intakes of fluoride that are commonly found in green tea manufactured products.

Green Tea Side Effects

4. Most people are aware of the illness that green tea can prevent and cure. However, in most cases, there are certain types of medication where drinking green tea prohibited for it may interfere with the procedure of the treatment.

5. Herbal tea is also good for pregnant for its natural and herbal contents as well as its cleansing effects to eliminate unnecessary toxins within the body. It is also a good source for important supplements such as iron and zinc However; excessive drinking may cause neural tube birth effects to babies.

These are few examples of green tea’s side effects. But still, we should not forget all the benefits that green tea can provide. The bottom line of this article is that everything should be taken in moderation. Too much for everything is bad for you.