Green tea is the second most popular drink in the entire world, only after water. It is loaded with health benefits that have made it so popular. Many illnesses and brief ailments are seemingly healed by green tea.
It even helps with weight loss and reduces insulin resistance.
Needless to say, it’s a powerful little leaf.
Green Tea Improves Memory
Green tea has protective benefits for the brain such as improved memory. This isn’t necessarily big news, though it is always nice to see another study confirm this.
One group of researchers, however, wanted to know even more about the relationship between green tea, memory, and high fat, high sugar diet.
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They took mice and separated them into three groups. The first group, the control group, was fed a standard diet. The second group was fed a high fat, high sugar diet. They fed the third group a high fat, high sugar diet and a bioactive component of green tea.
The mice were then tested for memory in a series of exercises. Basically, they were put in a water maze and were meant to find the escape platform.
Overall, the mice fed with the high fat, high sugar diet had the highest body weight and worst performance in the water maze tests. The mice fed the same diet and given the green tea ingredient demonstrated significantly improved results.
The lesson?
Never get into a pool without knowing where the steps to exit are.
And drink green tea. Green tea improves memory functioning by protecting the brain from the damaging effects of a high fat, high sugar diet.
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Science Daily. URL Link. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
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