Green tea will change your life

In my biology class, we are creating 20-time projects which are projects that take up 20% of our class time for the rest of the semester. The project has to be related to science, preferably biology. My essential question for this project is "What benefits do green tea have on humans? How many facts are false about the affects of green tea?"

My love of green tea inspired me to do my 20-Time project about it. My project is to have 3 test subjects drink high quality green tea daily for 1 month and see how it affects their lives. Green tea is known to improve brain function, thus, making you smarter as you drink it. It increases dopamine and the production of alpha waves in the brain. This tea also increases fat burning, improves physical performance, clears/ makes skin healthier, and contains antioxidants that may lower your risk of certain types of cancer. On a weekly basis, I will monitor my test subjects and record data about whether or not they have gotten sick, improved their test scores, or felt more awake. I plan to have them write down their weight before the experiment, then again after the month is over to see if they lost any weight, since the tea is supposed to be fat burning. If the experiment goes successfully, I plan to petition the school to supply green tea by the hot water machines at lunch. Or I will fundraise and place green tea bags there myself.

My goals are to explore the benefits of green tea and see if it lives up to its potential for being a healthy alternative to coffee. I also hope to teach students about how green tea benefits humans much more than soda and other beverages. I plan to measure my progress and achievements with this blog. If anything strange or remarkable happens during this project I plan to post about it.

My plan moving forward is to start my experiment and have my test subjects begin drinking green tea, then to record data about any changes they notice in their bodies.