Friday, December 26, 2008

Want to lose weight safely? Drink Green Tea

By Loralie Hardy

Green tea seems to be the newest weapon to use with your weight control battles. Like other herbal teas you shouldn't nees milk or sweetners to help with the taste. It is just so simple to make, and if you replace your coffee with the green tea, you are replacing one bad with one really good beverage. Don't like green tea? Why not get the same benefits with green tea extract?

Reducing your weight by drinking green tea is a very safe and healthy way to trimming down. Forget about all those dangerous diet pills such as ephedra, which have the same thermogenesis properties, but have dangerous side affects. Many of the compounds in the plants have the thermogenesis proterties that help you get more energy and burn fat.

You could be at risk of cardiovascular problems and even developing hypertension if you are not careful. Drinking green tea daily, which doesn't put a lot of pressure on your heart will help preven this. Drinking green tea while slowly increasing your exercise levels will help to build a stronger heart. Cleansing your body at the same time will totally increase strengthing your heart ten fold. One main hint is to stay away from those dangerous diet pills and weightloss pills that contain ephedra.

The easiest and most efficient way to lose weight is by consuming less calories, by eating less and by expending more energy, by exercising or moving more. Green tea works by revving up our metabolism which creates an increase output by aproximately 5%. Scientists believe that catechin found in green tea is the causitive factor in increasing the energy output.

Green tea is a powerful antioxidant. Antioxidants have been proven to fight free radicals that fight against our immune system. By improving our immune system which happens with the regular use of green tea, will assist out bodies in protecting ourselves from diseases.

Keep in mind that green tea does contain caffeine so you should cut out coffee and other forms of tea while you are taking it. Decaffeinated green tea is not recommended because the chemical processes that are used to remove the caffeine may destroy the beneficial properties of the plant.

Along with the use of green tea to support your weight loss efforts. It is also important to watch your calorie intake and also try to exercise at least 20 minutes per day. Green tea will assist by increasing the metabolism and a gradual weight loss will result. To have a greater effect then further restricting calories and increasing exercise will also speed up weight loss.

Green tea is a simple, easy and inexpensive weight control aid that can easily be incorporated into any weight loss program. The choice of tea or extract offers something for everybody. Natural and safe, green tea weight loss should feature in your program if you want to keep the weight off permanently. - 15359

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