Researchers in Japan have found that Green tea is good for Depression and Blues
Posted on December 18, 2009
Green Tea is a populat hot drink in the Northern Pakistan. It has been associated with many good effects on human body. The researches in Japan have endorsed this now and have said that Elderly men and women who sip on several cups of green tea a day may be less likely to have the blues.
Dr. Kaijun Niu, at Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering in Sendai, and colleagues found men and women aged 70 and older who drank four or more, versus one or fewer, cups of green tea daily were 44 percent less likely to have symptoms of depression.
Several prior studies have linked green tea consumption to reduced levels of psychological distress. This led Niu and colleagues to look at associations between drinking green tea and symptoms of depression in 1,058 relatively healthy elderly individuals.
About 34 percent of the men and 39 percent of the women had symptoms of depression, according to a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. These symptoms were severe in about 20 percent of the men and in about 24 percent of the women.
Overall, 488 participants said they drank four or more cups of green tea a day, 284 said they downed two to three cups daily and the remaining 286 reported having one or fewer cups daily.
Green Tea is a populat hot drink in the Northern Pakistan. It has been associated with many good effects on human body. The researches in Japan have endorsed this now and have said that Elderly men and women who sip on several cups of green tea a day may be less likely to have the blues.
