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Green Tea and Lose Weight

By Brian I Park


In recent studies, consuming green tea on a daily basis has shown to promote weight-loss. Now that doesn't mean if you drink 10 glasses of green tea a day, you'll be 100lbs lighter by the end of the week. It doesn't happen like that. Burning fat and losing weight takes a multitude of factors towards reaching your goals. These factors include your exercise routine, diet, sleeping patterns, etc etc. All these factors come together, but within this article I will tell you how green tea can be beneficial towards your weight-loss goals and also tell you why it should be included in your diet.

If you're a big tea drinker like myself, you should know that green tea has several fat and caloric burning characteristics. With these characteristics, green tea contains the following compounds: Theanine, Catechins, Flavonoids, and Tannins. All of which contain anti-oxidant and medicinal properties. These anti-oxidant properties are able to prevent certain cancers. Green tea also contains epigallocatechin gallate (ECCG). You may have seen the abbreviation ECCG on a few bottled products, and if you've been wondering what it is...Basically ECCG has been known to act as an appetite suppressant. With this, it'll help you crave less for certain foods you desire most and help you lose weight at the same time. The consumption of green tea will also speed up your metabolic rate for burning calories. And as some of you may know, the more calories that are burned the better! Green tea is also known to burn a certain harmful fat called visceral fat which is linked to diabetes.

There's also a group of polyphenols called Catechins that green tea extract contains. The ingesting of Catechins will help lower body fat and also decrease cholesterol levels. In scientific studies, it's been researched that the consumption of green tea will actually prevent from fat cells enlarging and multiplying. Thus, another reason why you should drink green tea. And as another weight-loss benefit, one cup of green tea usually only contains about four calories and is a great alternative to coffee as green tea also contains caffeine. From time to time, try to slow down on the coffee intake and replace it with a cup of tea. A cup of green tea will have more healthy benefits from consumption compared to coffee. As coffee will contain an unnecessary amount of sugars and calories that will only slow down your progression of losing weight.

As you've read, green tea has proven itself to have many weight-loss characteristics and as well as a couple other health benefits. If you're wanting to start drinking more green tea, I would recommend you brewing it yourself. Because I have yet to find a bottled product that does not contain a high amount of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). And by brewing it yourself, you can avoid consuming an unnecessary amount of sugars. Thank you for giving the time to read this article, and I hope you take it highly into consideration of including green tea to your diet!

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posted by Cheryl Levesque @ 10:22 AM