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    Green tea is tea made from adult tea leaves that have not been oxidized. These tea leaves bring to the tea many antioxidants and vitamins, along with minerals and volatile oils. Green tea also has many health benefits; however, some are also controversial because scientific evidence only supports the possibilities of them instead of proving them.
    There are many, many different health benefits that vary, depending upon the type of tea you are drinking, however, we will attempt to focus on green tea here, though some of the help benefits that are going to be talked about can also be found in other types of tea. The first example of a controversial health benefit of green tea is this, some people claim that green tea helps to prevent or even treat; cancer. However, some scientists argue that there is no scientific evidence to prove this. Green tea also contains antioxidants which help the body’s immune system to fight off infections and illnesses. Though green tea is said to help arthritis, many different types of cancer, allergies, illnesses, and many others, quite a few are controversial and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) argues some of these listed and more that are not listed.
    Yet at the same time, there are surveys of people who do and don’t drink green tea. The surveys show the difference in the number of those people who do and don’t get cancer, the flu, and other illnesses or viruses/diseases.
    In my personal opinion however, I believe that green tea does help allergies, for when I wake up in the morning with a stuffy nose or clogged sinuses as my mom calls it while I’m stumbling around trying to figure out where I am, sniffing in the steaming aroma of the fresh tea and then drinking it seems to almost if not, immediately clear my sinuses/nose. I can’t say much about any of the other benefits of green tea for I have not had the chance to test them, though this in itself may be due to the fact that I drink around three to four cups of green tea a day.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea    Modified 07:54, 7 November 2006
http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles/green-tea-heart-attack.htm    Junji Takano