Green Tea Weight Loss Tips
Green tea for weight loss? You’ve no doubt heard that green tea is packed with health benefits. But did you know it also burns fat and boosts metabolism? If you’re looking for fast weight loss green tea is an excellent choice to speed the process.
Do you really want to take weight loss supplements? More and more research is showing that green tea is packed with a whole host of health benefits and can aid in your weight loss program as well. Even moderate consumption of green tea can give you these positive effects. Here are just a few things that green tea can do:
- Increase your metabolism
- Increase energy
- Block fat absorption
- Boost the immune system
- Promote healthier skin
- Enhance focus and mental function
- Fight the aging process
- Promote oral health
- Protect the body against diseases
One of the more exciting and well known benefits of green tea is its ability to aid in weight loss. Along with giving you an extra energy boost, green tea stimulates the metabolism while simultaneously blocking fat absorption.
Green tea contains powerful antioxidants called catechin polyphenols that are responsible for many of the health benefits of green tea. One of them in particular, epigallocatechin gallate (or EGCG for short), has been found to stimulate the metabolism and accelerate weight loss. So, if you’re looking for weight loss tea can definitely help!
EGCG, along with the caffeine in green tea, stimulates the central nervous system and causes fat to be released into the blood stream for the body to use as fuel. This process of fat being used for energy is called “thermogenesis”. It provides extra energy, sheds excess water, and also helps to burn body fat.
Although caffeine alone can stimulate the metabolism this way, it’s important to note that researchers have found that the combined ingredients of green tea were much more effective at this process than caffeine by itself.
Research at Tufts University indicates that green tea actually targets belly fat. The EGCG in green tea, like other catechins, activate fat-burning genes in the abdomen to speed weight loss by 77 percent.
As an added bonus, green tea tastes good. If you’re not crazy about the flavor, try a few different kinds. Try it iced or hot. Add some of the natural herb stevia to sweeten it if you want a sweeter drink. It’s delicious iced with a little squeeze of fresh lemon and some natural stevia … your own green tea lemonade.
