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Health Benefits Of Green Tea For Weight Loss
Health Benefits Of Green Tea For Weight Loss
Is green tea a miracle diet aid or just another fad?
The health benefits of green tea have been scientifically proven. Can green tea help you lose 20 lbs in 2days? Probably not. However, drinking green tea can accelerate the results of exercise and healthy eating by burning more calories and blocking fat absorption.
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30/06/2010
"Is green tea a miracle diet aid or just another fad? "
Is green tea a miracle diet aid or just another fad?
The health benefits of green tea have been scientifically proven. Can green tea help you lose 20 lbs in 2days? Probably not. However, drinking green tea can accelerate the results of exercise and healthy eating by burning more calories and blocking fat absorption.
Green Tea – Fat Burner
Food (including sugar and fat) is synthesized into triglycerides in the small intestine and liver. From, there, the food moves through the bloodstream to other parts of the body.
Triglycerides are a necessary form of energy for your organs and to support physical activity. The problem is that excess triglycerides are turned into fat.
The high level of polyphenols in green tea activate the enzyme that dissolves excess triglycerides. In essence, green tea helps to burn fat.
Green Tea – Metabolism Booster
Many of green tea’s health benefit stem from powerful antioxidants found within the tea. One of them , epigallocatechin gallate (or EGCG for short), is especially effective in accelerating weight loss by stimulating the metabolism. EGCG combined with the caffeine in green tea revs up the central nervous system and releases fat into the bloodstream for the body to use a fuel – this process is called thermogenesis. Thermogenesis boosts your energy, sheds excess water and burns body fat. Although caffeine by itself can stimulate the metabolism, researchers have found that green tea was more effective than just caffeine.
Drink Green Tea and Exercise Longer
Exercise is key to losing weight and keeping it off. Exercise builds muscle (which boosts your metabolism, burns calories and increases your energy level. The polyphenols in green tea stimulate the use of fat by the liver and the muscle cells. Because more fat is being burned, less carbohydrates are being used. The availability of more carbohydrates creates greater endurance and allows for longer exercise times. A study using green tea extract on lab rates increased the amount of time the animals could swim before becoming exhausted. More endurance means more exercise time and greater calorie burn.
Getting Started
By now, you are most likely asking, how do I get started losing weight with green tea? The easiest way to begin is to simply start to add more green tea into your diet. Even a few cups a day can have a large benefit. Drinking tea (as opposed to taking tea supplements) has the added benefit of forcing you to drink more fluid, which also helps with weight loss.
Don’t like the taste of green tea? Green tea now comes in a variety of flavors. Shop around online for loose green tea – you will be pleasantly surprised by the taste.
In addition to drinking tea, you can add tea to recipes for anything from appetizers to desserts, and blend it into your smoothies or other drinks.
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Visit Tea.AromaCup.com for green tea coupons, recipes, reviews and more.Meredith Eisenberg, editor of Tea.AromaCup.com loves to try new teas. Her current favorite is Constant Comment green tea. When not drinking and writing about tea, Meredith is enjoying the blue skies and open spaces of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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