Green tea can help control diabetes. Experiments show that an extract of green tea to mice had ability to lower blood sugar.

Japanese researchers have determined that catechin inactivates influenza virus. Gargling with green tea is very effective in preventing influenza.

Doctors at Aichi Cancer Institute have verified fact that green tea catechin can inhibit activity of AIDS virus.

Green tea catechin suppresses process of plaque formation and destroys bacteria that forms plaque. Studies showed a reduction in cavities among grade school children who drank green tea after lunch. Green tea also kills bacteria which causes bad breath.

Green tea has been demonstrated to kill seven strains of food poisoning bacteria including staphylococcus, clostridium and botulus. It is a good treatment for diarrhea.

Green tea can reduce and prevent high blood pressure by preventing angiotensin II, a substance in blood, which causes constriction of blood vessels causing high blood pressure.

By stimulating fat metabolism studies suggest that green tea extract may be useful for improving endurance capacity."

The best way to get disease-fighting nutrients in tea is to drink it freshly brewed after allowing it to steep for three to five minutes. Decaffeinated, bottled ready-to- drink, and instant teas have less of healthful compounds.

Researchers caution that tea can't be seen as a cure, but it could be viewed as a vitamin for immune system.

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If I think that I will be successful, and I tell myself that each day, it will happen. Thanks to some wonderful books by such authors as Dr. Robert Anthony and Napoleon Hill, along with some personal coaching, I am slowly teaching myself to control my own destiny through daily visualization. I look at world differently now. In that new view, I have seen my mother's suffering and realize that she is a victim of society's programming. Precription drugs are now advertised on television with regularity of car and beer commercials. The message is clear, "You are sick. You have a disease. We have something to ease your suffering."

My mother switched primary doctors three times recently because, as she told me, "She didn't get along with them." I believe now that she left them because they would not give her care, or more accurately, prescriptions that she wanted. I have introduced my mother to a series of all-natural health products that will slowly help her cleanse her system and start her on road to true balance. She and I have also discussed my new mindset and how she needs to believe that she can be healthy and energetic again. It is going to be a long road, but with changes I am helping her to make, she will be successful in end. So I ask again - why don't more people get it? Why is it that people believe that prescription drugs are answer to all their health problems? Unfortunately, answer most likely is because that's what our society is programming them with. I choose to turn off television ads and take charge of my own health. I will gladly help anyone do same for themselves and their loved ones. It takes a commitment to learning HOW to think, not WHAT to think.

Author Tom West is a successful high school band director, husband, father of two, and home-based business owner. He resides in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and enjoys contemporary a cappella, drum and bugle corps, mentoring people to success, and spending time with his family.