Green tea!

I thought of starting up my blogging with a healthy drink which I really like and appreciate - green tea! How is that connected to students? It's very available (you can buy it anywhere ranging from your local supermarket or pharmacy) and very cheap. So you can save your limited college funds by drinking this. But that's not all...

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Why should you drink it? The right question should be "Why not?". Green tea is very healthy, so far there have been scientific research and work done on it, questioning its therapeutic effects and it is concluded that it helps your immune system, helps you lose weight, regulates heart pressure, has a lot of vitamin C and so on and so on...

You can prepare it very easy. Just take a cup of water, heat it up until boiling point, pour it over the tea, wait a few minutes, dispose the tea and there you have it! It's also tasty and more beneficial to you unlike some other teas (example: sweet strawberry tea). You can add sugar, lemon or honey to your liking.

I drink it almost daily, every morning or somewhere during the day. It's my substitute for coffee since I'm a former caffeine "addict" if you can call it like that. I used to drink 2-3 coffees in the morning and one or two energy drinks in the afternoon so I could focus better on my studies. Needless to say it had an effect on me, a bad effect. I was nervous, jumpy and had a feeling of being stressed out. I remember one time falling asleep in the afternoon and my roommate was just walking around the room and it woke me up. His footsteps woke me up. I was really alert all the time. My sleep schedule was also messed up due to the excessive coffee and energy drinks...

So why should we drink green tea: it's a good substitute for coffee, it's available and cheap so your student budget is safe, easy to make, tasty and most importantly it's very very very healthy!

Introduction!

Hello all!

This is a brand new and my personal first blog ever! Here I will blog about various health, dietary, exercise and fitness topics and issues. Some of my friends from university noticed how I always have a thing or two to add to these sort of topics so they advised me to make a blog where I could keep track of the stuff which I know of and which I find out so I could keep everything up to date and ready for other people to practically use.

I  myself am studying law, which is waaay not related to these sorts of things, but it's my personal interest to research and conduct various activities in which I can improve myself overall. I'm really interested in medicine, in connections between our body and mind, proper diet, exercising, supplements and living healthy.

From where do I start? Hmm... Well what I was first taught by my uncle, who's a doctor, is that we need these three things:
1. Air
2. Water
3. Food
And we actually need these three things in this order. We can't go several minutes without air. We can go several days without water and we can survive a few weeks without food (or not).

But balancing out these three factors is very important, so my blogging will be devoted to these three things mostly which are then individually divided into different categories such as exercise, proper nutrition and so on...

So thanks for reading my first post! If you have any questions or suggestions leave them, I will be sure to check it all out! Stay healthy!