Green Tea Weight Loss
9 Important Facts To Avoid
Being Ripped Off!

During spring 2007, just 6 months after I started this site, my loyal customer Ellen told me that drinking green tea has helped her shed 25 pounds in 6 months. I was astonished. You can read how she did it here...

Green Tea Burn Calories - How I Lose 25 Pounds In 6 Months

Doesn’t that sound too easy? Or was it just a one off success? I was skeptical about its slimming effects. So I delved into it, reading all the scientific studies that I could lay my hands on.

Here are my findings.

As you explore this article in full, you will discover the most effective way to utilise green tea's amazing benefits - without being ripped off by clever marketers!

"Drinking tea for a long time makes one thin," says ancient Chinese medicinal classic Bencao Shiyi. Fast forward 1,300 years, and that is exactly what scientists have found today.

Researcher Swen Wolfram listed 74 studies in his excellent review paper Anti-obesity effects of green tea. He concluded that green tea weight loss has been demonstrated in laboratory studies involving cells culture and animals.

In addition, he reviewed 9 human studies, with "most of these studies reporting decreased body weight and fat mass." There is still a need for well-designed human studies to better understand the underlying mechanisms, but there is no question that it works!

What is wrong with conventional dieting?

When you eat less calories, your body begins to feed on itself. Although some fats may be used as energy, the most readily available source is protein i.e. muscle.

Your natural metabolism rate is largely determined by the amount of muscles you carry. Most diets fail because they help you lose the wrong kind of weight!

Losing muscles cause your metabolism to slow down. When you finally start eating, you find yourself piling on fats more easily.

Want to be a happier, healthier person, living out a more active lifestyle? Successful weight loss depends on fat loss, not muscles loss. The two compounds responsible for green tea slimming effects are caffeine and EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate).

Most people think that tea helps lose weight by increasing metabolism. It is more complex than that. Caffeine and EGCG do the following mission impossible, day-in, day-out:

• Raise your energy level.

• Regulate your blood sugar levels and reduce food cravings.

• Burn fat.

• Block conversion of energy into fat.

• Help your body absorb less dietary fat.

Unlike other herbal teas, green tea does not curb the appetite or cause toilet runs

The list of green tea health benefits is endless.

The beauty is that while helping you slim down, it also cuts your risk of obesity related diseases:

• Reduce your blood level cholesterols and triglycerides, the chemical form in which most fat exists in your body.

• Reduce your LDL (the bad cholesterol) but leave the HDL (the good cholesterol) alone.

• Protect your cholesterols from damage by free radicals, thereby reducing the heart disease risk.

Fat Metabolism - Twin Wonders

It doesn't stop here.

• Green tea is good at burning visceral fat, a particular harmful type of fat that is linked to type 2 diabetes.

Green Tea Burn Fat - Visceral Fat

What would you do if, like me, you are having problems getting into the gym regularly?

Drinking green tea makes you fitter. Two studies conducted by the Kao Corporation found that it increases stamina by up to 24%. 

Green tea and exercise act in synergy. They are like husband and wife - the sum is worth more than the individual parts.

Researchers found that mice that exercised regularly lost 24% of additional weight gain introduced by the high fat diet.

Mice that drank green tea lost 47%. Mice that exercised AND drank green tea lost 89%!

Green tea Diet and Exercise

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that green tea acts fast!

Researchers Dulloo and Rumpler used state-of-the-art metabolic chamber to measure the energy expenditure of their study subjects over 24 hours.

They found that green tea increases metabolism by 2.9% and 4% and fat oxidation by 12% and 35% respectively.

Green Tea Thermogenesis

Although 2.9% and 4% may not sound like a lot, it adds up over time. How quickly you lose weight depends on your diets and lifestyle. No one can guarantee how many pounds you can shed in a week!

The beauty of green tea is that, unlike other herbs and supplements, you can drink 3 to 6 cups daily for the rest of your life without having any side effects.

Scientists found that it is not just about how much you drink, but how long you drink that is important.

A Taiwanese population study found that green tea drinkers for more than 10 years have 20% less body fat compared to non tea drinkers.

Green Tea Burn Fat - A Population Study

Another study found that caffeinated green tea can help you stay slim and limits initial weight gain by 5 to 10%.

Green Tea and Weight Control

Don't pay over the odds for supplement products, no matter what they say! Scientific studies have consistently found natural tea to be better than supplements.

Tea compounds act in synergy i.e. the sum is more powerful than the individual parts. Many tea extract supplements contain only the major constituents of questionable concentration.

It is also best to avoid artificial tea i.e. bottled tea produced from tea extracts. For further analysis, check out

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How To Buy A Perfect Tea Extract

My recommendation is loose green tea.

Green tea is supposed to be a "bud tea", not "leaf tea."

A high grade green tea is naturally flavourful. It is not like any branded supermarket tea. You don't have to add any lemon or sugar.

It tastes exquisitely sweet with a long lasting, pleasant aftertaste.

It is also most effective for losing weight.

Why? Because scientific study has shown that these high grades contain the highest concentration of EGCG and caffeine, the magic ingredients that promote weight loss and other health benefits.

And as a bonus, they contain the most theanine.

Theanine has been shown to reduce anxiety in young women. It promotes a relaxed awareness and negates the caffeine side effects.

Wolfram S, Wang Y, Thielecke F (2006). Anti-obesity effects of green tea: from bedside to bench. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2006 Feb;50(2):176-87.

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