Can Green Tea And Caffeine Help You Maintain Weight Loss?

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Can Green Tea And Caffeine Help You Maintain Weight Loss?

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Weight loss and maintenance is no laughing matter. Today, 60

percent of American adults need to lose weight, and many of them

feel defeated by their struggles. In addition, for many people,

keeping weight off after weight loss is even more difficult than

losing it in the first place.

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Can Green Tea And Caffeine Help You Maintain Weight Loss?

Copyright © 2007 Marcus Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

Weight loss and maintenance is no laughing matter. Today, 60% of

American adults need to lose weight, and many of them feel

defeated by their struggles. In addition, for many people,

keeping weight off after weight loss is even more difficult than

losing it in the first place.

These difficulties are the reason that sales of diet aids are so

consistently high. People who are trying to lose weight are

constantly looking for any help they can find to increase their

weight loss and maintenance success.

If you need to lose weight, it's critical that you make changes

to your diet and your physical activity level. The following

suggestions can help you to begin shedding pounds without

resorting to extreme dieting measures:

* Substitute fish and chicken for beef and pork most days of the

week.

* Eliminate white flour from your diet. Eat whole grains, such

as 100% whole wheat bread instead.

* Eliminate refined sugar from your diet. Use artificial

sweeteners and natural sweeteners like honey instead.

* Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. Fresh fruits and

vegetables will provide more anti-oxidants and fiber, along with

fewer calories than processed vegetables, particularly those in

sauce.

* Increase your fiber intake – Extra fiber will help you feel

full longer, helping you to reduce the number of calories you're

eating without feeling deprived.

* Watch the fat- Reduce the saturated fat in your diet. Avoid

any food with hydrogenated fats or trans fats. Get your fats from

olive oil, canola oil, fish and nuts.

* Get 30 minutes of aerobic exercise most days of the week.

Walking is a great way to get in your exercise, and it's

convenient because you can do it anywhere. You should also get in

strength training 3 times a week for 30 minutes each session.

Strength training will help you build muscle, which will help you

burn more calories even when resting.

Making these changes should allow you to lose weight gradually

without feeling hungry. Only when you make changes that you can

sustain for the long term will you be able to take off the weight

and keep it off.

However, while it's critical to understand that diet and

exercise will always be the keys to maintaining a healthy weight,

it's always nice to find little tricks that make losing weight

and keeping it off just a bit easier.

One substance that does seem to hold promise in weight loss is

green tea. Many studies have shown that the consumption of green

tea along with a healthy diet can help you lose more weight than

dieting alone.

It is believed that green tea's potent anti-oxidants combined

with the caffeine in the tea help speed up the metabolism and

burn fat. In addition, some studies have even shown that green

tea can inhibit the absorption of dietary fat, meaning that less

of the fat you eat ends up as body fat.

However, one interesting study suggests that green tea's

effectiveness may be negated if you consume too much other

caffeine in your diet. A study conducted by Maastricht University

in The Netherlands attempted to show how green tea would affect

participants attempting to maintain a recent weight loss. It

showed less promising results regarding the consumption of green

tea, particularly when the participants were high consumers of

caffeine overall.

In this study, 104 overweight and moderately obese men and women

were put on a low calorie diet for 4 weeks. During the four week

period, the participants lost an average of 7.5% of their body

weight. During the 13 week maintenance period, the participants

were fed either green tea or a placebo. The participants did not

show statistically different results between the group receiving

green tea and the group receiving the placebo.

However, the study did show that participants who had overall

high caffeine consumption regained more of the weight they lost

than those who had a lower overall caffeine consumption.* When

you consider these results compared with other studies where

additional caffeine consumption was restricted, and a correlation

between the use of green tea and weight loss was observed, it

suggests that excess caffeine use may negate green tea's

possible positive effects.

If you look at the entire body of research on green tea's

ability to enhance weight loss, it seems very promising, in spite

of the results of this particular study. And, the good news is,

that even if green tea doesn't help you lose weight, it's very

healthy for you and has no side effects.

So, you have nothing to lose by trying green tea as a weight loss

supplement. Green tea's anti-oxidants may hold significant power

in helping you avoid diseases like cancer, heart disease and

Alzheimer's. In addition, regular consumption of green tea may

reduce the signs of aging and help you live a longer and

healthier life. And, in addition, you may find your weight loss

efforts easier and more effective than ever.

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Marcus Stout is President 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