Jujubes and green tea: Two excellent health products and common health knowledge

Jujubes – A Health-Boosting Food

Jujubes, with their thick, fleshy flesh, delicious color, and sweet taste, contain nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, especially high in carbohydrates and vitamin C, and also rich in niacin. Therefore, jujubes have long been considered a health-boosting food for invigorating qi, nourishing blood, and calming the mind.

Jujubes are rich in vitamins and minerals such as iron, which can promote hematopoiesis, prevent anemia, and give the skin a rosy complexion. The abundant vitamin C and niacin in jujubes are beneficial for improving capillary function, maintaining the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and preventing arteriosclerosis. Jujubes also contain cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which can dilate blood vessels, increase myocardial contractility, and improve myocardial nutrition, thus preventing cardiovascular diseases. The combined effects of the abundant vitamin C, niacin, and cAMP in jujubes can also promote skin cell metabolism, making the skin whiter, preventing pigmentation, and achieving a skin-beautifying effect. Recent studies have also shown that the hawthorn acid in jujubes has a significant anti-cancer effect, so regular consumption of jujubes helps prevent and treat tumors. Since jujubes have so many benefits, men may want to eat more of them. Here are a few simple and easy-to-prepare jujube-based dietary therapies:

◎ Combine 60 grams of jujubes and 400 grams of rice in a pot with enough water to cover and simmer. Once the rice is fully cooked, drink the porridge and eat the jujubes, one small bowl each time, three times a day. This can be used to treat deficiency of both the heart and spleen, and insomnia due to restlessness.

◎ Stew 10-15 jujubes and one sheep's heart (washed and chopped) with enough water to make a soup. Season with salt and consume. This can be used to treat palpitations due to blood deficiency, excessive thinking, and restlessness.

◎ Boil 7-8 jujubes, 20-30 grams of goji berries, and two eggs together. After the eggs are cooked, remove the shells and cook for a few more minutes. Eat the eggs and drink the soup. Take once a day for three consecutive days. This can be used to treat neurasthenia.

Drinking more green tea may help fight cancer.

my country is the birthplace of green tea, with a history of tea cultivation and consumption spanning thousands of years. Since men are particularly fond of tea, we'd like to introduce green tea to you here.

As a major branch of tea, green tea is loved for its vibrant color, fragrant aroma, mellow taste, and beautiful shape. Asians especially enjoy drinking green tea, and its consumption accounts for 20% of the world's total tea consumption.

Green tea not only has nutritional value, but it can also inhibit the occurrence of certain cancers, especially esophageal cancer.

Tea contains caffeine, polyphenols, amino acids, aromatic substances, and various vitamins. The tea polyphenols extracted from green tea have a certain inhibitory effect on gene mutations and chromosomal damage caused by carcinogens. They can also block nitrite chains in the body, protect hematopoietic organs, inhibit the production of carcinogens and prevent the growth of cancer cells, and reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, some scholars believe that tea polyphenols may be the main anti-mutagenic substances in tea, while other components in tea, such as trace elements, caffeine, vitamins, and certain unknown compounds, also play important roles.

Experiments have shown that polyphenols in green tea have an inhibitory effect on the proliferation of cancer cells. A survey conducted by the Epidemiology Group of the Saitama Cancer Center in Japan on the relationship between green tea consumption and cancer in a rural area found that people who drank more than 10 cups of green tea daily had a significantly lower incidence of cancer compared to those who drank less than 3 cups, and their age of death was significantly higher.

It is worth noting that drinking excessively hot tea can increase the risk of esophageal cancer and may reduce or even eliminate the anti-cancer effects of green tea. Therefore, the scientific way to drink tea is to choose bright green tea, using 23 grams each time, brewed with 150 ml of 40℃ boiling water.