How Tea And Caffeine Can Help You Control Your Waistline

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How Tea And Caffeine Can Help You Control Your Waistline

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Caffeine has often been shown to help speed up metabolism, giving

it possibilities as a weight loss supplement. However, the

problem with using caffeine as a weight loss supplement is that

most of our bodies are accustomed to some caffeine intake, so it

may require a significant amount to have any effect. And for

some, such a large dosage of caffeine can have side effects.

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How Tea And Caffeine Can Help You Control Your Waistline

Copyright © 2007 Jon M. Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

Caffeine has often been shown to help speed up metabolism, giving

it possibilities as a weight loss supplement. However, the

problem with using caffeine as a weight loss supplement is that

most of our bodies are accustomed to some caffeine intake, so it

may require a significant amount to have any effect. And for

some, such a large dosage of caffeine can have side effects.

Some supplement manufacturers attempted to get around this

problem by combining caffeine with other supplements purported to

enhance weight loss, such as ephedrine. With this particular

combination, users did experience weight loss, but the side

effects of ephedrine proved very dangerous, sometimes even

causing death by heart failure. So, ephedrine has since been

banned in the United States.

However, there may still be hope for using caffeine in

conjunction with other supplements to achieve weight loss. The

most promising is green tea's most potent anti-oxidant, EGCG.

Green tea alone has been shown to promote fat loss, speed up

metabolism and even inhibit the absorption of dietary fat.

However, it appears that when green tea is combined with

additional caffeine, it may have even more impact on your ability

to lose weight.

Green tea contains caffeine; however, its caffeine content is

significantly lower than that of black tea, coffee and colas. So,

most of green tea's weight loss effect is contributed to its

anti-oxidant level rather than its caffeine level.

Bearing that in mind, researchers decided to evaluate how green

tea might affect weight loss and weight maintenance if it was

combined with an additional dose of caffeine, similar to that in

coffee or cola. In addition, researchers evaluated how the

results differed between subjects who were already consuming

large amounts of caffeine compared to those who consumed small

amounts of caffeine.

The study evaluated 76 overweight and moderately obese people.

The participants were placed on a low calorie diet for 4 weeks.

Following the diet period, they were observed during a weight

maintenance period of 12 weeks. The participants were divided

into high caffeine consumers, low caffeine consumers and a

control group.

During the weight maintenance period, participants were either

given a supplement that contained green tea's anti-oxidant EGCG

plus caffeine, or a placebo.

During the study period, high caffeine consumers lost more weight

than those who consumed smaller amounts of weight. During the

weight maintenance period, the EGCG/caffeine supplement had a

significantly greater effect on the people who were low caffeine

consumers than on those who consumed larger amounts of caffeine.

The low caffeine consumers who took the EGCG/caffeine supplement

during weight maintenance continued to lose weight, lose body fat

and show an increased metabolism. However, in the high caffeine

consumers, the EGCG/caffeine supplement appeared to have no

effect during the weight maintenance period.

So, what does this mean to your diet? Well, it certainly means

that people who don't habitually consume large amounts of

caffeine could benefit, in terms of weight loss, from increasing

their caffeine consumption.

In addition, when you combine this research with results from

other studies on green tea's effect on weight loss, it suggests

that green tea may be the right way to increase your caffeine

intake, particularly if you're caffeine sensitive. Green tea's

caffeine does not appear to raise the heart rate and blood

pressure the way other caffeinated substances can, so it is

better tolerated by those who are sensitive to caffeine.

In addition, it's important to note that the EGCG/caffeine

supplement used in this study did not supply an inordinate amount

of caffeine. The caffeine supplement was just 150 mg of caffeine,

roughly equivalent to the amount you would find in a cup of green

tea.

Other studies have shown that green tea has the ability to

increase weight loss more than its mere caffeine content would

suggest. Some studies have compared the weight loss of those who

consumed green tea to those who consumed the same amount of

caffeine found in green tea through other beverages. In these

studies, the participants who consumed green tea lost more weight

than those who consumed the same amount of caffeine from other

beverages, suggesting that it's not just the caffeine in green

tea that makes it a good weight loss supplement.

Studies have shown that the EGCG in green tea can promote fat

oxidation and inhibit the absorption of fat from the diet. This

may be the reason that drinking green tea is more effective for

weight loss than drinking other caffeinated beverages.

If you're trying to lose weight, there's still no substitute

for a healthy diet and regular exercise plan. Eating right and

exercising will help you shed excess pounds and keep them off for

good. However, when you're trying to lose weight, any help is

appreciated – and it appears that increasing your caffeine

consumption, particularly through drinking more green tea, may be

just the jump start your metabolism needs.

* http://www.obesityresearch.org/cgi/reprint/13/7/1195

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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