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Sunday 4 January 2009

Does green tea really help weight loss?:

Fat Loss 4 IdiotsGreen tea is an excellent choice of drink for dieters. Why? Because supposedly it helps raise your metabolism, has excellent antioxidants properties, can make you feel full and can stop your body absorbing so much fat from foods. But how much of that is true and how good for weight loss can green tea actually be?


Green tea originates from China (as does all tea drinking) about 4000 years ago. It has long been associated with health and long life. More recently it has been linked to helping fight cancer and helping people lose weight. Many other countries now farm green tea, and Japan claim to have a particularly effective fat fighting green tea. Oprah recently had a Japanese tea promoted on her television program with claims that each cup would make the drinker lose 80 calories.


The most obvious way i see green tea effectively helping with weight loss is by people replacing their normal cups of coffee/tea/mochas etc with it. Starbucks coffee for example, will usually have at least 200 calories in it, compared with almost 0 in green tea. So if you had one cup of Starbucks coffee (or the equivalent) a day usually, and replaced it with green tea you will lose a pound of fat in a couple of week. Not bad! But nothing to do with green tea really. However, if the claims that green tea will make you lose 80 calories extra per cup, then the weight loss is really starting to add up.


The 80 calories that green tea burns come courtesy of two different "lines of attack". The main reason being the caffeine like substance it contains speeds up your metabolism and helps your body burn fat faster. The second reason is because green tea prevents glucose from entering your fat cells. So if you drink green tea regularly throughout the day, you are going to absorb less weight throughout the day too. There could even be a third reason - it helps suppress your appetite, especially if drunk regularly during the day. That will mean you are going to eat less food than usual (hopefully less snacks).


Certain Japanese green teas are better than most others for weight loss and health purposes. Look for tea that contains "Epigallocatechin Gallate" as this is one of the agents that helps fight cancer.


So they are the main benefits of green tea for weight loss. It is also packed full of antioxidants to help clean out your body and make your skin look good. Not too mention it could help keep your heart healthy and fight cancer. Its not a miracle drink, it will not be solely responsible for you losing a ton of weight, but as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle it really will help you reach your goal!Fat Loss 4 Idiots

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