Thursday, January 1, 2009

Green tea and weight loss! It works

By Loralie Hardy

Green tea is a very inexpensive, natural beverage that has many great weight loss benefits. It is a simple addition to your weight loss. It tastes good, so you don't have to add the artificial sweeteners, milk or cream. Green tea extract can be used if you don't like the taste of green tea.

Research has shown that green tea helps to reduce weight by stimulating the body's thermogenesis process, which increases the expenditure of energy and the oxidization of fat in the body. Many compounds found in plants have this effect. The special thing about green tea is that it does not increase the heart rate, and is therefore believed to be safer than diet pills such as ephidrine that also work by stimulating thermogenesis.

Green tea does not put pressure on the heart so is very safe for many of the overweight people who have or at the risk of developing hypertension and other cardiovascular problems. If you are in this unsafe group then using diet pills, especially those that contain ephedra are not an option. Drinking green tea and exercising at a moderate level will trim your waist line. Body cleansing is another option.

There are many ways to lose weight. The only real way to lose weight is by consuming less calories and by exercising more. With the use of green tea along with a sensible eating plan and exercise one can increase there energy output by aproximately 4%. It is said that catechin found in green tea is the factor that increases this energy output.

The powerful antioxidants contained in green tea have found to be very beneficial to your health. This includes improving the immune system, by stengthening it, it allows your body to protect itself against disease processes.

For people are sensitve to caffiene green tea contains caffiene. It is also recommended that if one decides to take green tea it would be best to limit other forms of caffiene in their diet, such as other teas, coffee or caffeinated beverages such as pop. Do not choose caffiene free green tea as the chemical process that occurs to remove the caffiene destroys the benefits from the plant.

Along with the use of green tea to support your weight loss efforts. It is also important to watch your calorie intake and also try to exercise at least 20 minutes per day. Green tea will assist by increasing the metabolism and a gradual weight loss will result. To have a greater effect then further restricting calories and increasing exercise will also speed up weight loss.

Green tea is a simple, easy and inexpensive weight control aid that can easily be incorporated into any weight loss program. The choice of tea or extract offers something for everybody. Natural and safe, green tea weight loss should feature in your program if you want to keep the weight off permanently. - 16083

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