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Why You Should Drink Green Tea for Weight Loss

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Why You Should Drink
Green Tea for Weight Loss

If you want to drink “green tea for weight loss”, you are definitely on the right track. Green tea originated in China, but it eventually spread across other Asian cultures, and it is one of the best oriental products introduced in the West. Besides weight loss, green tea offers a variety of other benefits, so it can help you improve other aspects of your health as well.

The Benefits of
Green Tea for Weight Loss

“Green tea” contains various natural compounds of polyphenols, and the most abundant one is called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Researchers attribute nearly every health benefit to that compound because it is a powerful anti-oxidant and promotes fast body weight reduction. The anti-oxidants found in green tea inhibit fatty acids, lower LDL cholesterol levels, and regulate enzymes responsible for appetite regulation.

Green tea also contains caffeine, so it increases thermogenesis, a natural process responsible for burning calories. Can you drink coffee and achieve the same results? While coffee does have more caffeine than green tea, it is less effective and more dangerous than green tea when consumed in high amounts, so you should stick to green tea.

Unlike many other compounds that have been researched by modern science, green tea showed the least amount of negative side-effects and the most visible weight loss results.

Can you drink any other tea and get the same results? Unfortunately, you will not have the luxury to expand your tea selection. Green tea has a specific manufacturing process that involves steaming the leaves, so it preserves its natural compounds. Because of that process, it offers more health benefits and faster weight loss than any other tea.

Other Green Tea Benefits

Just to illustrate the efficiency of “green tea”, you should be aware of some other benefits it has to offer including:

immune system improvement  tooth decay prevention  dental plaque prevention  minor food poisoning prevention  kidney stone risk reduction  heart disease prevention  cancer cell growth prevention

Drinking Guidelines

While green tea for weight loss evidently works, you have to understand some restrictions and dosage levels to get optimal results.

1. Green tea can interfere with some conventional medication, such as anticancer medication or anticoagulants, and make conventional treatments less effective.

2. Green tea has lower caffeine than coffee, but it can still cause insomnia or nausea for some people.

Currently, there are no straight-forward guidelines that tell you how much green tea you should drink to get measurable results. Drinking 4 or 5 cups per day is considered safe, but do remember to look out for caffeine side-effects and lower your dosage if necessary.

When making a cup of “green tea for weight loss”, refer to the instructions provided by the vendor. There are several varieties of green tea, and you should follow specific instructions for each one.

When to Expect Results?

When drinking green tea for weight loss, you should focus on getting long-term results. Various researchers told their participants to drink 4 or 5 cups per day, and they recorded a significant decrease in fasting cholesterol and body fat after 2 weeks. If you want to lose weight fast, you can drink up to 4 cups per day in the beginning.

However, you should make drinking green tea a habit rather than a temporary solution. Instead of drinking 4 cups in intervals, maintain the habit of drinking at least 1 or 2 cups of green tea per day. With that approach, you will maintain your weight loss results and constantly protect yourself from various other health risks.

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Good luck with your green tea for weight loss.

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