Since I have already been doing this for several weeks and also… I love green tea anyway!
On our first flight to Japan, I ordered tea and was served green tea and hated it. But slowly over our time in Japan, I grew to love it and nothing else can really quench my thirst on a hot summer day like iced green tea. Lately, I’ve been having a mug of hot green tea with lunch or later in the afternoon. I bought some expensive sencha that is delicious and I have cheap tea bags and Twinings Jasmine green tea, also very delicious. I also still have some I brought home from Japan because I hoard it and ration it out to myself…
This goal in no way includes that nasty Lipton stuff flavored with “lemon” ie high fructose corn syrup. While in Japan, you can get green tea in ice cold bottles at any and every vending machine in the middle of a park, outside a school or behind your favorite restaurant, in America pretty much all you can find is green tea flavored to taste like anything but green tea. I have to make my own for iced tea or stock up at the Japanese market.
I watched a film called Food Matters yesterday and realized anew how healthy green tea is. It is thought to fight cancer, heart disease and diabetes, stave off dementia (my experience with my mother tells me I may need that) and is also considered an aid in weight loss. And bonus…I like it! The benefits of green tea may be influenced by other foods most often eaten in areas where green tea is consumed, diets high in seafood and soy, but we are also moving toward that diet in our household anyway.
As I watched the movie, I was kind of bugged by some of the ideas presented but then I found myself talking and thinking a lot about it later as I shared facts from it with my mom and sister (went RIGHT over their heads) and then Todd. Interesting…
