Drink Green Tea to Lose Weight

July 26, 2009  
Filed under Healthy Weight Loss

Green tea is one of the ways on how to lose weight. Green tea has been known for centuries for its health inducing properties, along with its effects on people trying to lose weight. The last few years has seen an increase in people using alternative health for many different reasons, and losing weight is definitely one of them.

Green tea contains a couple of components that not only allow you to lose weight, but also to keep it off. Polyphenols (catechins) are only one of them. They are able to promote the increased release of the hormone called norepinephrine, which is the hormone primarily  responsible for fat burning in our body. As green tea is abundant in these, it makes a perfect means of burning your fat fast and healthy.

Caffeine is a second component of green tea. Caffeine helps catechins to increase the fat burning action in the body. As a stimulant it is an excellent energy enhancer, but you should not consume an excessive amount of coffee or tea. Sadly caffeine has other properties that minimize promoting of health in other areas of your body.

Green tea also has several other health benefits, such as against heart dieases. The ‘bad’ cholesterol is lowered while  the good cholesterol increased when you drink plenty of green tea. Also it reduces blood pressure, minimizes the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and even more, it acts as a blood thinner.

It also helps with oral health care. By drinking green tea, the gums and teeth are protected from various deseases. The catechins in tea basically inhibit the growth of cavity forming bacteria in your mouth.

So if you are not yet drinking green tea, you should make it part of your daily routine of drinking a few cups a day. It helps you all around, not only with your weight loss, but also in other areas of your body.

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2 Comments on "Drink Green Tea to Lose Weight"

  1. The Mind Relaxer on Sun, 23rd Aug 2009 2:08 pm 

    Nice post, thanks goodness it’s already part of my daily intakes.. didn’t know that green tea’s are also good for protecting teeth from various diseases. Thanks

  2. sally on Sat, 30th Jan 2010 2:21 pm 

    thankyou if i drink a cup of green tea aday how much weight would i loss i way 13 stone and iwant to get to 7

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