The health benefits of green tea just keep adding up! A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that green tea may lessen the effects of depression for elderly men and women who drink the beverage daily. Results show study patients 70 years old and above—who consumed increased amounts of green tea—had a 44 percent less chance of feeling the blues.

Green tea contains powerful antioxidants known as catechins that can help defend against free radicals that can do damage to your DNA and possibly pave the way for heath dangers such as cancer, blood clots and atherosclerosis. But not only does it have the potential to fight heart disease and cancer, green tea may also help lower your “bad” low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, help fight obesity, as well as help prevent diabetes, stroke and dementia.