(MENAFN- Asia Times) By AT Editor on August 24, 2016 in Food
(From PTI)
Here's one more benefit of green tea you cannot ignore. Drinking green tea may prevent a deadly condition in which the body's main artery becomes overstretched and bloated, a new study has claimed.
Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan found that abdominal aortic aneurysm developed less frequently in rats that drank green tea polyphenol, a major component of green tea.
Without treatment, abdominal aortic aneurysms eventually rupture and lead to death 50% of the time, researchers said. 'Abdominal aortic aneurysms often go unnoticed because there are no symptoms until they burst,' said Kenji Minakata, author of the study. Read more
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