How the Green Tea Diet
Helps You Lose Weight
The Green Tea Diet
consists of drinking the Japanese plant in tea from called Green
Tea. Also taking a supplement with Green Tea extract in it can be
useful as well. However, for best results you must combine drinking
the tea with a well balanced and healthy nutrient rich diet to make
make sure you are getting all the nutrients you need to loose
weight. Because
the Green Tea Diet will boost your metabolism you also need to
exercise every day to help with the fat burning part of your weight
loss program.
How does the Green Tea
Diet Work?
Green tea revs up your metabolism
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a study that
found green tea extract resulted in a significant increase in energy
expenditure by promoting a metabolic 'boost'. The more energetic the
metabolism the more calories are burned whether sitting or
exercising. People
with a sluggish metabolism tend to put on weight easily and loose it
more difficultly unless they are taking metabolic boosting herbs and
exercising daily.
Green tea inhibits fat absorption and helps
glucose regulation
The active ingredient in Green Tea called catechins inhibit the
movement of glucose into fat cells. Green tea may also act as al
glucose regulator. It helps to slow the rise in blood sugar after a
meal. This prevents high insulin spikes and insulin spikes
without immediate activity afterward promotes fat storage. Drinking
a cup of tea before every meal forms part of the Green Tea Diet.
Green tea may help reduce appetite
Scientists at the University of Chicago found that green tea caused
rats to lose up to 21 percent of their body weight. Rats injected
with a green tea extract lost their appetites and consumed up to 60
percent less food after seven days of daily injections. This may
have something to do with the blood sugar regulating effects of
green tea.
Green tea can help you save calories on
your morning brew
Substitute your coffee with milk in the morning with your
Green Tea
Diet. Studies have shown that people who drink a cup of green tea in
the morning loose up to 2 kilos more per month than dieters who do
not drink the tea.
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