| Name | Boiled water | Tea |
| Nutrients | No additional nutrition, pure water | Contains antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, etc. |
| Calorie | Zero calories | Almost zero calories (without sugar and milk) |
| Refreshing effect | No | Yes (contains caffeine, refreshing) |
| Digestion aid | Helps the body metabolize, but has no direct digestive effect | Promotes digestion (especially green tea, oolong tea) |
| Antioxidant effect | No | Yes (antioxidant ingredients such as tea polyphenols) |
| Suitable people | All people, especially those who are sensitive to caffeine | Suitable for people who like flavored drinks and need to be refreshed |
Fighting cancer: Studies have found that a person who drinks 4 glasses of water or more a day will have a nearly half the chance of developing colon cancer than a person who drinks 2 glasses of water or less a day. If you can drink 8 glasses of water or more a day, the effect will be better. The reason why water can fight cancer is that water can accelerate the peristalsis of the intestines, so that the waste in the intestines cannot stay, and reduce the chance of carcinogens staying in the intestines. By the same token, a lot of water can also reduce the occurrence of urinary system cancers, such as bladder cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer, etc. In addition, drinking more water can also prevent breast cancer.
Overcome fatigue: Some people often feel tired, especially in summer, and often feel weak or drowsy. Some people think it is due to mental stress or low blood sugar, but the real reason may be dehydration. It turns out that our body is less sensitive to "thirst" than "hunger".
When the body's water content gradually decreases, the body will not immediately tell us that we need to drink water, but if the situation continues and we do not replenish water in time, the body will become more and more tired and weak, making us often feel unwell for no reason and inexplicably. Drinking more water can solve this problem and keep the body energetic.
Improve immunity: The first task to improve immunity is to drink more boiled water, which can keep the mucous membranes in the nasal cavity and mouth moist; drinking more water can also make people feel fresh and energetic. Boiled water helps promote the body's metabolism and is a good catalyst. Water is easily absorbed by our body, enhancing the activity of lactate dehydrogenase in various organs of the body, thereby enhancing the body's immunity and disease resistance. Drinking a cup of warm water or room temperature water in the morning is better for the body.
Weight loss: By drinking boiled water, the internal organs such as the stomach and intestines are stimulated to heat up, warming the body from the inside out, improving blood circulation, and the basal metabolic rate will increase by about 10-12% when the internal organ temperature rises by 1 degree, increasing the fat burning rate, burning excess fat, and making the body easy to lose weight.
Activate visceral function: Drink boiled water to warm the internal organs, activate the activation of the internal organs, relieve internal organ fatigue, and improve the quality of internal organ operation. At the same time, it assists the digestive system in the body, activates metabolism, and accelerates the excretion of aging waste from the body. Once the aging waste is successfully excreted from the body, the garbage in the body is cleared, the liver and kidney functions are activated again, and the internal environment is cleaner and pollution-free.
Detoxification and beauty: Drinking boiled water can promote the circulation of blood and lymph, take away excess water retained in the body, form urine, and excrete toxins from the body with urine. The increase in urine volume and weight loss, and the removal of excess water can also relieve edema. Boiled water warms the stomach and intestines, lubricates the intestines, softens excrement, and can effectively prevent and relieve constipation symptoms.
Acid-base balance: Under normal circumstances, the pH value of healthy human body fluids is 7.35~7.45, so it is very important to maintain the weak alkaline state of body fluids. The human body itself certainly has the function of balancing the acidity and alkalinity of body fluids, but if it relies too much on its own balancing function, it is not beneficial to long-term physical health. If tap water that meets national standards is used as raw water, the pH value of boiled water can usually reach above 9, which is alkaline water. Drinking boiled water frequently is beneficial to neutralize the acidic substances produced by human metabolism and maintain a healthy body fluid state.
Refreshing the mind: Caffeine in tea can effectively make the central nervous system of the brain excited and enhance the excitement process of the cerebral cortex, thereby playing a refreshing effect. It is better for people who need to stay focused for a long time.
Clearing away heat and detoxification: Tea is rich in vitamin C, which can undergo redox reactions with substances in the body, thereby promoting detoxification. The substances generated by the reaction are soluble in water and will be excreted from the body with urine, achieving the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification.
Softening blood vessels: Certain ingredients in tea can reduce the content of cholesterol and fibrin in blood vessels, thereby reducing blood lipids and softening blood vessels, which is of positive significance for preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases.
Promoting digestion: Tea has a relatively high vitamin content and also contains caffeine, which is beneficial to increase the secretion of gastric juice and achieve the purpose of helping digestion.
Assisting weight loss: Tea contains a variety of compounds such as rich caffeine, inositol, pantothenic acid, aromatic substances and folic acid, which can promote fat metabolism. Especially oolong tea, which has a good decomposition effect on protein and fat. Tea polyphenols and vitamin C can lower cholesterol and blood lipids in the body, so drinking tea can help lose weight.
Antioxidant: Tea is rich in polyphenol compounds, such as catechins, which have strong antioxidant capacity, can help remove free radicals in the body and slow down the aging process.
Boiled water mainly provides water, while tea contains a variety of beneficial ingredients such as tea polyphenols and theophylline. Therefore, from a nutritional point of view, tea drinkers may have an advantage.
Both can promote metabolism and protect the digestive system, but tea has additional antioxidant and cardiovascular disease risk reduction effects, so in terms of health effects, drinking tea may have an advantage.
In addition to drinking water and tea, we should also develop good living habits, including regular work and rest, balanced diet, moderate exercise and a good mental state, in order to achieve the goal of health and longevity.
Try alternating drinking every day: for example, drink tea in the morning to refresh yourself, and drink boiled water in the afternoon and evening to keep your body's water balance.
Choose according to your mood: Want to be light today? Boiled water! Want to have a little taste? Make a cup of tea!
Pay attention to the amount: Although tea is good, don't drink too much, especially at night, so as not to sleep!
