The dietary benefits of Green Tea
Posted on January 17, 2009
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Green tea seems to be the newest weapon to use with your weight control battles. Like other herbal teas you shouldn’t nees milk or sweetners to help with the taste. It is just so simple to make, and if you replace your coffee with the green tea, you are replacing one bad with one really good beverage. Don’t like green tea? Why not get the same benefits with green tea extract?
Reducing your weight by drinking green tea is a very safe and healthy way to trimming down. Forget about all those dangerous diet pills such as ephedra, which have the same thermogenesis properties, but have dangerous side affects. Many of the compounds in the plants have the thermogenesis proterties that help you get more energy and burn fat.
You could be at risk of cardiovascular problems and even developing hypertension if you are not careful. Drinking green tea daily, which doesn’t put a lot of pressure on your heart will help preven this. Drinking green tea while slowly increasing your exercise levels will help to build a stronger heart. Cleansing your body at the same time will totally increase strengthing your heart ten fold. One main hint is to stay away from those dangerous diet pills and weightloss pills that contain ephedra.
There are only two ways to lose weight: one way is by eating less (consuming fewer calories) and the other is by increasing expenditure of energy (using up more calories). Green tea works by increasing output and this can be by around 4%. Most scientists believe that this is caused by the high quantity of catechin that is in the tea and its extract.
Green tea has the added benefit of containing powerful antioxidants that may be beneficial to your health in many ways, strengthening the immune system and protecting against disease.
It is recommended that people who use green tea should remove other forms of caffeine from their diet such as tea and coffee. I caffiene is a concern be forwarned that decaffeinated green tea does not have the same benefits as regular green tea, because the processes for removing the caffiene destroys the healthful benefits of the plant.
At the same time you will need to exercise control in what you eat. If you eat more to compensate for the calories that are burnt by the tea, you will not lose any weight. Keeping to the same calorific intake that you have now and taking green tea should result in gradual weight loss and better energy levels over a few weeks. You can of course increase the speed of this by reducing calorie consumption and/or increasing exercise.
By choosing green tea as simple weight loss rememdy, can easily and cheaply be added to any weight loss program. You can choose to drink it like tea or get extract or pill forms. There is something available for everyone. Green tea weight loss is safe, effecting and can if used consistently assist with a permanent weight loss.
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