More Evidence That Tea Helps With Weight Loss

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More Evidence That Tea Helps With Weight Loss

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Every little bit of help is useful when you're trying to lose

weight or keep your weight stable as you get older. Diet and

exercise are still the most important components of weight loss

and maintenance, but studies are showing that tea, particularly

green tea, may be able to provide some assistance in losing

weight and keeping it off.

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More Evidence That Tea Helps With Weight Loss

Copyright © 2007 Jon M. Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

Every little bit of help is useful when you're trying to lose

weight or keep your weight stable as you get older. Diet and

exercise are still the most important components of weight loss

and maintenance, but studies are showing that tea, particularly

green tea, may be able to provide some assistance in losing

weight and keeping it off.

For centuries, Asians have used green tea for health. In addition

to Asian cultures having a much lower incidence of serious

diseases such as cancer and heart disease, they also are far less

likely to be overweight.

Tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. While there are

several different types of tea, all true tea comes from this

plant. The differences occur from how the tea is processed. Green

tea is not fermented during processing, but black tea, which is

the most common outside Asia does go through a fermentation

process.

Tea leaves naturally contain catechins, which belong to the

flavan-3-ol class of flavonoids, which are anti-oxidants. EGCG is

one of the catechins contained in tea, and is one of the most

powerful anti-oxidants around.

Each day, as we convert food to energy, we create free radicals

in our body. These free radicals can damage our cells and our DNA

if we don't combat them. It is believed that unchecked free

radicals contribute to the development of many diseases,

including cancer. In addition, they speed up the aging process

and contribute to clogged arteries and other health problems.

Anti-oxidants are powerful at combating free radicals and are

linked with preventing cancer, as well as with decreasing your

risk of stroke and heart disease. and with lowering your

cholesterol. For this reason, drinking green tea is a simple and

effective way to slow down the aging process and prevent disease.

But, in addition to being a way to protect your health, drinking

tea seems to also be a way to help keep you slim.

There has been a fairly significant amount of research on tea and

its ability to help control your waistline. Tea seems to work on

two levels. The first is that it appears to speed up the

metabolism, so you use more calories each day. However, it also

seems to inhibit fat absorption, so that less of the fat in your

diet becomes fat on your body.

Tea has two ingredients that seem to help it work its magic. The

first is caffeine, which is known to help speed up the

metabolism. However, tea seems to work better than other

caffeinated beverages because of those powerful anti-oxidants we

were talking about earlier. The anti-oxidants, also known as

catechins, are the key to helping inhibit the absorption of fat

and keep the metabolism moving for hours.

One research study that evaluated the benefits of tea on weight

loss was conducted by the Osaka University of Foreign Studies.

This study was conducted on just under 200 healthy men and women

between the ages of 20 and 65. The subjects were divided into

three groups; the control group, low dose group and high dose

group.

The study lasted for 12 weeks. During the study period, the

control group was fed 3 bottles of placebo drink. The low dose

group consumed 2 bottles of a drink containing tea catechins and

one bottle of placebo drink and the high dose group consumed 3

bottles of the tea catechin drink.

At the end of the twelve week study, those subjects in the low

dose and high dose group showed a significant decrease in body

fat compared with the control group. Both body weight and BMI

were reduced in these two groups. In addition, abdominal fat was

significantly reduced.

This reduction in body fat around the abdominal area is

significant. Fat around the midsection is the fat that is most

dangerous to our health. Abdominal fat is the type that is most

likely to be an indicator of heart disease. Reducing your waist

size, and the fat around your midsection is the most important

weight to lose in order to protect your health.

Another interesting result of this study was that the subjects

who had slightly elevated cholesterol levels also experienced a

reduction in LDL cholesterol. LDL cholesterol is the " bad

cholesterol " . When too much of this type of cholesterol

circulates in the blood, it oxidizes into plaque that clogs the

arteries. This causes the arteries to narrow, increasing your

risk of heart attack and stroke.

When you combine this information with other studies that have

shown a positive relationship between the amount of tea consumed

in a day and the amount of overall body fat, it certainly

suggests that drinking tea can be an effective way to lose weight

and keep it off.

We all know that it's critical to eat well and get regular

exercise in order to maintain our health and keep our weight in

check. However, understanding how simple things like drinking tea

can provide assistance can make this challenge a little easier

and faster.

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Jon M. Stout is Chairman of the Golden Moon

Tea Company. For more information about tea,

(http://www.goldenmoontea.com/greentea)

green tea (http://www.goldenmoontea.com/blacktea)

and black tea go to http://www.goldenmoontea.com