Most people who have green tea on the daily have excellent skin, great hair, and a balanced body weight. They also flaunt a strong immune system, as the antioxidant present in green tea helps in warding off various diseases. However, the question remains, how much green tea is too much green tea? The fact of the matter is that green tea, like every other thing in the world should be consumed in moderation, an excess of anything is bad for human health and this brew is no different.

Many studies have come to the conclusion that around 3 cups of green tea a day, is the ideal amount. Anything exceeding this can cause a bit of a disruption in your system. The University of Maryland conducted a research wherein they concluded that 240 to 320 milligrams of polyphenols a day is the perfect mount. This too accounts for about 2 to 3 cups of green tea in a day.

An Excessive Amount of Green Tea in a Day Can Cause:

• A headache
• Irregular heartbeat
• Heartburn
• Irritability
• Nervousness
• Sleeplessness
• Confusion

Benefits of Green Tea

• Having more than 5 cups of green tea in a day can cause the aforementioned problems, so it is best to stick to 2 to 3 cups of this brew on the daily. Loaded with nutrients, vitamins and trace minerals, green tea contains polyphenols, catechins, and flavonoids, as well, which help in strengthening the immunity.
• It helps in protecting against breast and prostate cancer and reduces your chances of developing type 2 Diabetes.
• Green tea is often related to weight loss. The brew has the ability to boost metabolism in the body, whilst, accelerating the natural fat burning process within the body, which is known as lipolysis.
• It contains caffeine, which can really help you to push harder during a workout. If you have a cup of green tea around 15 minutes prior to workout, you will feel a lot more energetic when you hit the gym.
• A few studies have suggested that green tea alone can help in burning an additional 75 to 100 calories per day.

Green Tea Weight Loss

If you are consuming this brew for weight loss purposes, then it will better if you have it without any sugar or sugar supplements, to make sure that the tea remains to be a zero calorie beverage. This will make sure that the green tea contributes to a significant amount of weight loss over a long period of time. Apart from that, this brew is known for strengthening the heart by reducing cholesterol levels. It aids in removing the plaque from the arteries of the heart, helping it to pump blood faster. This, in turn, normalizes blood pressure levels and allows the heart to function much better.

Green tea is widely available in the market, but not all of them are of the best quality. You can only achieve the aforementioned health benefits of green tea by purchasing the brew from a reputable and trusted tea seller like Teafloor. Try and avoid buying tea bags as the brew may be adulterated and instead opt for loose leaf tea.

Mukul Singhal

The post How Much Green Tea Should I Drink? appeared first on Teafloor Blog : All About Tea | Health Benefits of Tea.

Black Tea is a Global Hit

Loved in countries like Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc, black tea has traveled far and wide owing to its heavy demand. The black brew happens to be the most oxidized teas of them all, and in most cases is stronger with heavy caffeine content. In a world that is craving for more and more caffeine daily, the widespread of black tea was inevitable. If you love coffee but hate the jitters caused by it, then black tea will be your best friend. It releases caffeine slowly into the system, which allows the body to remain recharged for longer periods of time without breaking into jitters.

Bold, Beautiful and Versatile

Black tea, perhaps, is the most versatile tea. It is bold, it is strong and it can be prepared in many different ways. Some brews like the Assam black tea is so strong, that you can hardly consume it without the addition of milk, which balances it out. The Darjeeling brew, on the other hand, must not be mixed with milk at all. However, there is one universal ingredient that complements the flavor of pretty much all tea varieties and that is lemons.

The Benefits of Black Tea With Lemon

1. Yes the humble lemon, or lime as it is called in some countries, tastes excellent with tea. In fact, it enhances the flavor of the brew and adds a whiff of freshness to it. There are many benefits of black tea with lemon.
2. Lemon, as we know, is a powerful antioxidant; antioxidants help in fighting free radicals in the body. The free radicals are basically like cellular rust which cause various disease and accelerate aging.
3. Tea, as we all know, has antioxidants and the addition of lemon strengthens this factor. Having lemon tea will not only keep you free from a number of diseases but, at the same time, aids in fighting early signs of aging. Instead of adding creamers and milk to your tea and piling up on the calories, switch to lemons. You will be surprised at how light and flavorful does your tea taste.
4. Come to think of it, lemon tea (without the addition of sweeteners) is a zero-calorie beverage. It will not only cut down on the calorie intake but also reduce the fat present in the body. Lemon water is known for cutting down fat, so if you are looking forward to shedding some kilos, then the lemon tea will prove to be your very best friend. Plus, both lemon, as well as tea, are diuretics, which will prevent water retention in your body, thereby, inhibiting any kind of bloating.
5. Lemon tea is a detoxifying beverage, which you can consume times a day. It will get rid of the free radicals present in the body and you will be able to notice new-found energy in yourself. If you prefer your tea sweet, ditch the sugar and swap it with some organic forest honey and make your morning tea a true-blue health drink.

Ankit Tiwari

I’m a Blogger, always ready to explore new things. Starting from Technology to Seo, webiners etc. Driving more and more traffic to our website is my passion.

The post Benefits Of Black Tea With Lemon appeared first on Teafloor Blog : All About Tea | Health Benefits of Tea.

Other than this, there are a lot of other factors in an organisation that will define your working conditions which may differ in every organisation, depending on their culture. To brief you with an example,

Here’s What Teafloor has to Offer its Employees

A Good Boss: Usually, the first thing that an intern would look forward to is working under a kind and helping boss. Here at Teafloor, that’s the last thing you need to worry about. At every step, you will find friendly colleagues with open hearts and helping hands. Solving the problems that an employee may face is a priority of not just the boss but every senior in the working domain. Thus, you don’t need to think twice before asking for help.

A Perfect Guide: As an intern, it’s not an easy job to cope up with the expectations of your boss or seniors. A good guide, however, can help you through this journey. Thus, every intern here is put under the guidance of a mentor who gives you a complete understanding of the work to be done. He/she helps you learn from every mistake that you make and also looks after everything that you do, from performing the easiest to the toughest of tasks.

Significant Breaks: It’s true that spending the entire day sitting at one place is not an easy thing to do. However, the significant breaks will definitely make it easier for you. Starting from the morning tea break to the 45 minutes lunch time in the afternoon and yet another tea break in the evening, you will get substantial time to relax your body and mind and have some quality time with your colleagues.

Monthly Meetings: This is the best time for every employee to interact with the boss as well as other seniors. Through these meetings, everyone is made aware of the monthly progress of the organisation as well as the individual progress of every member of the team. The best part of these meetings is that on the basis of good performance, employees are also rewarded with certificates as well as bonus money. The cherry on the cake is that the entire team is rewarded with a lunch treat by the boss as a form of praise for everyone.

Monthly Leaves: As mentioned above, you need not think twice before stating your problems. Thus, you can always look forward to asking for a leave just to take a break from your daily routine, and your request will be granted. Also, you can work from home to match up with your everyday targets.

Supportive Colleagues: The employees here are more than welcoming to new people, and will help you fit in, as early as possible. The best thing about working here is that every employee helps the other employees to carry out their working with a constant support and direct contact with the seniors which you may not find in other organisations.

Every Employee is Valuable: No matter whatever position an employee may hold, their ideas are always valued and listened to. This is not the end of it, you will always be guided further on how to make your ideas better. Also, you’ll be a part of every important decision that is taken for the organisation as well as the employees.

Encouraging Environment: The one best thing about working at Teafloor is that every employee is encouraged to do better and learn more, not just from their own work but also from what your colleagues do. You’ll always be encouraged to spend some time learning new things and experiment, not just for the company’s progress but also your own.

No Dress Code: This is definitely one of the best things about working here, especially for those who don’t wish to spend extra time in thinking what to wear.

Celebrations: Celebrating together is one thing that will make your work place feel like home. Whatever the occasion be, the entire organisation or as they say it – the Teafloor family, is always ready to celebrate along. Birthday, festivals or even farewell of interns as well as employees are celebrated with such enthusiasm and zeal that the one leaving the organisation goes with tears of happiness and a lot of beautiful memories to cherish for a lifetime.

Towards the end, we would like to make you aware of only a few things that you might find difficult to adjust with, like 6 working days and 9 hours of work every day (sorry boss). However, with all the perks mentioned above, we’re sure you can cope up with a few cons, since working in any organisation is definitely not a cake walk.

Ankit Tiwari

I’m a Blogger, always ready to explore new things. Starting from Technology to Seo, webiners etc. Driving more and more traffic to our website is my passion.

The post What It’s Like To Work At Teafloor? appeared first on Teafloor Blog : All About Tea | Health Benefits of Tea.

For some reason, my parents never encouraged us to drink tea when we were young. We were given milk and were always told that we will take up these adult habits on our own as we grow up. I think coming from a Muslim family, the most adult beverage for them ever was a cup of tea!

When I turned 18, I moved to another city for my higher education or in simpler words, to study Engineering. Living in a completely residential university far away from the city, I was dependent on the hostel mess for every drop and bite of food. Eventually, unable to find my ideal glass of bournvita and milk, I was compelled to drink my first cup of Tea. During the first few months, that tea was only a state of liquid to gulp in the dry unchewable food. But probably even I didn’t realise when did that tea stopped becoming a resource to push food down my throat, and became a reason to sit in the hostel mess for that extra one hour and have conversations to the moon and back!  Very soon, without us having the slightest hint, our Hostel ki Chai became an emotion. Perhaps, that was the first time I could feel what my father had been saying for years, that tea is something which unites people, kindle thoughts and embrace cultures.

Over the 5 years of living with the same people in the same hostel, we saw different different shades of tea. The shades would differ sometime because of the unavailability of the milk and sometimes because of the availability of emotions. And with all the roller coasters of our journey, one thing which was always constant, was a cup of Tea. That cup has come in our lives in forms of new year resolutions of drinking green tea every morning. Or to act posh by having make-believe “High Tea” conversations. Or just any other reason to hold a warm cup in our hands and stare at the gleaming sky all night long!

Tea in hostel came to me in different shades and tones. Within every chaos, within every moment of haywire, if I look back at time, tea was always the common thread. Amongst all of which, these were my favourite shades of our whole heartedly cherished Hostel ki Chai:

The “there, there” Tea:

As many of us would recall moments in Big Bang Theory. Whenever Sheldon would find anyone upset or disappointed, he would make them a warm cup of tea and console them by saying the two magical words, “there, there”. Sharing the same hard disk for watching all the TV series, I think our entire group of friends had made a similar tea tradition for all the break-ups, family drama or flunking in Engineering Maths II! I remember the day we all as a group were feeling too heavy inside, the reason being that our kettle (in which we used to warm water to make tea) was caught by the hostel warden, hence we all made a cup of Ice Tea for ourselves before we whined the night away. As for every low, there was always a kettle switched on!

Exams ki Chai:

Now a very interesting college system in our country is to cage the girls inside the hostels at night! I think my college was the proud knight rider of this scheme. Every day at sharp 10pm, our hotel gates would close and hence would be the closure of the source to any kind of snacks or our beloved tea! Now in usual days, this was not that big of an issue for us. But during exams, we obviously needed something to wake us up all night! Realising this fact soon, our hostel authorities arranged for night tea. Every day from the first day of our exams till the last one, we used to have a huge dispenser of Tea to our service, kept at the common room sharp at 10:30pm. I think during exams, we girls had at one point, started looking forward to getting locked up in our hostel, because the garma-garam tea will be served at night. We used collect mugs of the biggest possible sizes (at times even thermos flasks too) to pour in as much tea as we can because man! tea can make you stay awake! For all those sleepless nights, our cup of tea was our only companion. Without those cups of warm tea at night, never would we ever be able to finish those books as heavy as our weight!

Sneak-peak Tea:

One of the most disturbing classes for any engineering student will always be that of Mathematics II. Between the Laplace and the Fourier, our misery always lied. Now imagine a class as incomprehensible as that, coupled with the most boring tea ever! Then the result of every Laplace Transform used to come as a cup of warm Tea! Now how do you drink tea in a class without your master knowing about it? Ah! The beauty of college desks with little drawers in them. You know, the drawers which were made to hold your books, pens, registers, etc.? Well in our class they used to hold Tea cups and Britannia Good Day biscuits. I probably can never count the innumerable times when we have spilled the tea all over us or our hands or in the poor drawers out of fear of getting caught! But did that ever stop us from not bringing a new cup of tea to the class? Well I think if B.Tech never made us engineers, it definitely made us fearless! So every day, lovely cardamom tea from our college canteen would arrive in amount of a litre, distributed secretly to everyone, and with every binomial distribution, the entire class would make low slurpy nods!

The High Tea and the Low Tea:

I think the most depressing part of living in a prison is that you have these make-believe parties to make yourself feel better every now and then. Now with such low pocket money and living on the outskirts of the city, there is very little that one can manage for a party. So our usual used to be high-tea, where we would arrange for Tea Bags collected from various hotels and restaurants, English breakfast, Assam Tea, Darjeeling Tea, Green Tea, etc. and pretend posh! I know, I have already said it’s the most depressing thing ! But the only good part about our parties used to be conversations over tea. Chai pe charcha, as one may call it. There is a reason why tea is the most consumed beverage in the world after water and beer! Tea is a conversation starter, something which you can drink anywhere, anytime or with anyone, that is the beauty of the soulful drink. Sitting on the roof top, staring at the world outside with a cup of tea in our hands, we have travelled time.

The best part about tea is that it is utterly easy to make and amazingly healthy for your body. There can’t be another drink with so many nutrients packed inside a cup. Tea in the most true sense revitalises your body, your mind, your soul. It gives you the kick to achieve anything and everything, and most importantly it gives you the courage to get up in the morning for college or work every day! I have the most profound emotions with every cup of tea that I have had in my hostel days. Every sip had a story to say. Every ounce had a tale to tell. I can blabber all day on the infinite cups of tea that me and my friends have had in those 5 years. I am grateful to my parents to not let me drink tea in school because now I have a new connection with the drink.

Tea came to me in different shades.

• Green Tea to fulfill new year resolutions
• Kadak Chai to stay awake all nights during exams
• Assam and Darjeeling Tea for the terrace night
• Black Tea for times of unaffordable milk sachets
• Long Island Iced Tea for, you know, the rich times (usually soon after coming from home)

In colours, in tones, in stories, in tales; there has been a cup of tea knitted closely to our lives. I cannot imagine another beverage which may supplement this warm cup. It truly has been our companion for years for every moment of joy and every dot of distress. To Tea or to not Tea has never been a question because as my Dad says, “Chai jaisi bhi ho, jahan bhi ho,  jiski bhi ho – pee leni chahiye”.

Ankit Tiwari

I’m a Blogger, always ready to explore new things. Starting from Technology to Seo, webiners etc. Driving more and more traffic to our website is my passion.

The post 50 Shades of Tea, Our Paradise in the Prison appeared first on Teafloor Blog : All About Tea | Health Benefits of Tea.