You will undoubtedly have read somewhere that green tea is so good for your health. Nowadays, there even are tea products like Tea Burn that was proven effective in promoting weight loss. But among other things, it would ultimately have positive effects on our brain and heart, but also weight loss and our blood sugar levels and it would protect us against cancer. But what has been proven by science?

1. Protects against cancer

Let’s perhaps start with that protect against cancer. Green tea is packed with antioxidants, substances that can lower the risk of some cancers. Antioxidants help reduce oxidative damage in the cells. Oxidation is a process that can be compared to rust on iron, or a brown spot on an apple or a pear that remains in the open air for a while. If oxidation occurs with us, we age. On the outside, you can see that, for example, wrinkles or pigmentation spots, but also on the inside, there are consequences of that aging. Harmful substances, free radicals, and small aggressive particles are created that can cause damage and, among other things, chronic inflammation, but also cancers. Fortunately, you can prevent oxidation with antioxidants, as the name says. A healthy body makes enough of it, which is why it is important to keep your body as healthy as possible and to live as healthy as possible. Research has also shown that green tea can indeed make a difference in the prevention of several cancers.

• A comprehensive study showed that women who drank the greenest tea had about a 20 to 30 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer.
• One study found that men who drank green tea had a lower risk of advanced prostate cancer.
• A summary of 29 studies showed that people who drank green tea were about 42 percent less likely to get colon cancer.

2. Good for the brain

Green tea contains a lot of caffeine, a substance that makes you alert, but also stimulates your brain function. It blocks adenosine, the substance that makes us sleepy, and stimulates stimulants such as dopamine and norepinephrine. In addition to caffeine, green tea also contains L-theanine, a substance that calms and reduces stress and anxiety without making you tired. People who drink green tea indicate that the boost they get from green tea is less ‘aggressive’ than that of coffee: their energy is more stable and they are more productive compared to coffee. Studies have also shown that green tea not only improves your brain function in the short term but your brain would also be protected as you age thanks to L-theanine and caffeine. In particular, it would protect against Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

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3. Lower risk of type 2 diabetes

Research also showed that green tea can improve insulin sensitivity and reduce your blood sugar levels. Tea drinkers would be 18 percent less likely to have type 2 diabetes. In addition to a positive effect on how your body deals with sugar, green tea also has a stimulating effect on your fat burning and your metabolism. You have to see this effect in the short term, but not all studies agree on this. Thus, green tea could also help with weight loss and loss of body fat, especially around the abdominal zone.

4. Good for your heart

Thus, the high amounts of antioxidants in green tea help prevent oxidation, which also means that they reduce bad LDL cholesterol. And cholesterol, as you know, has a direct effect on cardiovascular disease, which makes green tea drinkers up to 31 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease. This means that green tea drinkers live longer. A study of 40,530 adult Japanese over 11 years showed that the people who drank more than 5 cups of green tea a day were significantly less likely to die from a heart attack (42 percent less in the women, 35 percent less in the men), from heart disease (31 percent less in the women, 22 percent less in the men) and any cause (23 percent in the women, 12 percent less among men).

Smell has a big influence on how you feel. Wearing perfume, such as the Molecule 01, is therefore the ultimate form of self-care, even if you just stay at home alone.

In a poll on Instagram, we asked how often you wore perfume in recent months. The majority indicated that they only occasionally or never wear perfume. Did you wear perfume less often in 2020 – read: since the arrival of the corona – because you thought you were the only one who would smell it? Let that be the reason to do it.

Mood booster

Smell has a direct influence on our mood. That’s because we interpret smells using our limbic system, the part of our brain responsible for emotions. That is why we experience smells as something emotional and evoke memories.

Kristof of the Belgian perfume brand Miglot: ‘It has even been proven that scent can evoke a more powerful memory than photos. There is a science that studies the effect of smell on how we feel and behave. It is called pharmacology or olfactotherapy. For example, the smell is used by sportspeople before a big competition, specifically to prepare them and make them perform better.’ So you should wear perfume mainly because it makes you happier yourself, not because someone else smells it.

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Perfume in times of corona

Kristof van Miglot: ‘Normally you visit different places every day, where you are always stimulated by different scents. Without you realizing it, they work on your mind, making you feel like you’ve experienced more. Your olfactory organ gets used to the smell of your own house or apartment so that you no longer consciously think about it. It does make you feel safe, but it doesn’t exactly make your day more interesting. Therefore, use scents to provide a little more variety, even if you stay at home for a whole week.’

• Make your house or apartment more interesting by perfuming different rooms differently. Use scent sticks, house perfume, scented candles, or ceramic pendants that you can perfume with your favorite perfume.
• Some companies opt for a fixed house perfume. As soon as you come to the office as an employee, you enjoy a nice smell that you link to work. As an employee, you can also spray that perfume in your home office while working from home, so that you immediately enter work mode when you step inside.
• Whether you need to leave the house or not, use perfume for yourself. What’s more, use different scents. For example, choose a specific perfume that you only use on weekends. You can wear that on Friday night to create a relaxing vibe.

Stress occurs in our belief that our bodily requirements are greater than our ability. Normally, there are lots of factors contributing to stress – life’s changes, threatened or overwhelmed, and loss of control.

Every individual may have the chance to suffer and respond to stressful circumstances differently. Although, it is normal to be stressed, prolonged exposure to it may lead to negative effect on the physical and mental aspect.

Signs of Stress

If you feel one of the following signs, then you may probably suffering from stress:

• irritable and angry
• Fatigue and lack of concentration
• Teeth grinding
• Change in eating habits or sleeping patterns
• Stomach difficulties

Ways on Managing Stress

Below are ways on how to handle and control stress:

Concentrate on the things you can handle

It is very important to stay on your scheduled activity and always be active. Make sure that you eat the right food and be aware on the way to respond to people around.

Establish your connections 

Since everything works online now, it is crucial to build your support system. Much better if you will attend your online classes and turn your cameras on. It is also a good idea if you greet your classmates.

Take a break and prevent fatigue

When you are in class, try to have a walk during breaks and undergo short time mindfulness habits.

Through nutrition, we supply our body with energy and important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and secondary plant substances. Our immune system needs this to work properly and to fight off pathogens. And someone who is already sick needs the nutrients to recover better and faster. The Corona crisis is currently causing fear for many people – and that not only stresses the psyche, but also the immune system. The right diet is especially important right now to stay healthy.

What are the cornerstones of a healthy diet?

If you want to eat healthily, you should eat colorful, varied, and as naturally as possible. So give preference to unprocessed foods, because most ready-made meals not only contain a lot of calories but also low-quality fats, a lot of sugar, or artificial additives. A healthy meal plan is plant-based and consists of lots of fresh vegetables and fruits. Care should be taken to ensure that pesticide exposure is low because pesticides put a strain on the immune cells. In the meantime, however, even the discounters have really good organic goods on offer.

Meat is also allowed in moderation, but in good quality and not heavily processed in the form of sausage or cold cuts. Those who also prefer wholemeal products to white flour products, do not let their sugar consumption get out of hand, rely on good fats and high-quality protein, are on the right track. Unfortunately, most Germans, especially many young people, are real vegetable grouch.

How to eat a little healthier?

First of all, nobody should put themselves under pressure. No fast food fan will become a vegetarian overnight. Step by step is the motto, every step counts. Better to do something 50 percent good than 100 percent bad. Small changes bring a lot. So eat a salad more often as a side dish and incorporate healthy snacks more often: an apple, an orange, some raw vegetables. Cooking yourself also motivates you to eat healthier. Meal prep, i.e. pre-cooking meals, is currently very much in vogue. Not only does it save time; Planning meals also help you eat healthier. Because when the cravings come, you have something nutritious in the house without having to cook first. The chance of reaching for something unhealthy in a hurry is then less.

The great thing is that there are really a lot of quick healthy recipes out there. Natural yogurt with a few fresh berries is super quick and much healthier than ready-made fruit yogurt. If you add nuts and oatmeal, you have a filling, nutritious breakfast. Or vegetable soups: They are easy to cook and contain many vitamins and hardly any calories.