Monday, January 29, 2007

Drinking green tea : Does it help you lose weight?


The most important thing that makes green tea extract good for weight loss products is that it replaces the need for caffeine (ephedrine - caffeine - salicin). This makes green tea a very good fat burner.

Green tea regulates blood sugar levels after meals. Your stomach uses a specific digestive enzyme called “amylase” to break down your food after a meal. This enzyme is mostly responsible for breaking down starchy foods like potatoes. When amylase breaks down food is causes your blood sugar levels to rise dramatically. Green tea aids in regulating these levels.

Green tea is a very powerful anti-oxidant. It is much more powerful (up to 200 times) than other anti-oxidants like vitamin C and E.


Drinking green tea also aids weight loss by increasing your metabolic rate. Your metabolic rate is that rate at which your body processes food. If you have a higher metabolic rate your body burns food faster and uses more calories doing so. Increasing your metabolic rate is an essential part of weight loss.


Now days, people who is on diet, realized the benefit of green tea in loose weight process. They was a researched found that by drinking 5 cups of green tea can boost up the metabolism rate by 5%. Green tea was proven to increase the fat burning process and result to loose weight.

The studies also found that be best time to drink green tea is either after a meal or before exercise and especially when you took high cholesterol meal. It will help to reduce the cholesterol intake.