Tea's Potential For Weight Loss

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Tea's Potential For Weight Loss

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Losing weight is a topic on the mind of many. It's no secret

that long term weight loss and maintenance require long term life

changes. In order to successfully lose weight and keep it off you

must consume fewer calories each day than your body uses. This

allows your body to use stored fat as energy, rather than food.

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Tea's Potential For Weight Loss

Copyright © 2007 Marcus Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

Losing weight is a topic on the mind of many. It's no secret

that long term weight loss and maintenance require long term life

changes. In order to successfully lose weight and keep it off you

must consume fewer calories each day than your body uses. This

allows your body to use stored fat as energy, rather than food.

So, eating less is just half the equation. Since you can only

reduce your calorie intake by so much, it's critical to also

increase the amount of calories your body uses each day. This is

why exercise is so important. Exercise burns calories while

you're exercising, but also increases your metabolic rate for

several hours after you finish.

Exercising by lifting weights can also help increase your

metabolic rate in the long term. Because muscle requires more

calories to maintain, even when resting, building muscle is a

great way to help ensure that you burn more calories all the

time.

So, as you're attempting to lose weight, it's important to pay

attention to increasing your metabolism. Part of this equation

includes not decreasing your caloric intake too drastically. When

you significantly reduce the number of calories you're

consuming, your body begins to go into starvation mode, actually

conserving calories and fat. This can stall your weight loss

progress.

A better way to lose weight is to reduce your calorie intake

somewhat, but to put the bulk of your effort into increasing the

number of calories you burn each day. Exercise is the most

important way to do this, but there is another way that you can

increase your metabolic rate that many people don't know about.

The secret is tea. Several studies have shown tea to have the

ability to aid in weight loss by raising your metabolic rate. In

addition, tea seems to inhibit the absorption of the fat in your

diet, which may help you lose weight, as well.

This ability to limit fat absorption may also be one of the

reasons that tea consumption seems to lower cholesterol. When

triglycerides (a form of fat) rise, cholesterol rises, too.

However, it is likely that the most important quality that tea

possesses for aiding weight loss is its ability to impact

metabolism. It has long been believed by the Chinese that tea

helps with weight control, but there has not been a great deal of

research on the subject.

However, with all the recent attention that tea has garnered for

its ability to reduce aging and prevent disease, more research is

being done on all of tea's potential.

For example, there have been many studies that suggest that tea,

particularly green tea, can prevent heart disease and cancer. Tea

is a potent source of anti-oxidants, which scientists have

discovered are keys to health.

Anti-oxidants are important because they fight the free radicals

created as a by-product of the digestive process. Free radicals

are oxygen containing molecules that damage cells and DNA if left

unchecked. However, a regular diet of anti-oxidants can stop the

free radicals from damaging our bodies.

Anti-oxidants are found in many plant sources, including fruits

and vegetables, but none are more potent than those in tea. For

this reason, tea has gained a great deal of attention for being a

healthy beverage.

One study, conducted by the University of Tokushima in Japan,

attempted to verify tea's effect on the body's energy

expenditure, or the number of calories burned. The study was

conducted on men, who did not consume any caffeine or flavonoids

(the anti-oxidants in tea) for four days prior to beginning the

study.

The study lasted for three days, during which the subjects

consumed a typical American diet. Each subject was evaluated

prior to the study to get a measure of his normal daily energy

expenditure. The subjects were divided into four groups. The

groups were given one of four regimens:

* Water

* Full strength tea

* Half strength tea

* Water containing 270 mg of caffeine (approximately the same

amount found in the full strength tea)

The study found that, compared to the men who drank water, the

men who drank full strength tea showed an energy expenditure

increase of 2.9%, and the men who drank caffeinated water had an

increased energy expenditure of 3.4%.

However, the men who drank full strength tea also had an

increased fat oxidation of 12% over the water drinkers. This fat

oxidation increase was not shown in the men who drank caffeinated

water.

So, this study suggests to us that caffeine does help speed up

the metabolism. However, it also tells us that it is not just the

caffeine alone that makes tea an effective weight loss aid. Other

components in tea, likely the anti-oxidants, are responsible for

tea's ability to oxidize fat in a way that caffeine alone

cannot.

Tea is a healthy drink, and, worldwide, is the second most

consumed beverage, after water. So, using tea as a weight loss

aid is a safe way to help increase your chances of losing those

excess pounds. If tea isn't already part of your weight loss

plan, why not add it today?

* http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/131/11/2848

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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