Drink Green Tea to Lose Weight

There are many ways to increase the effectiveness of a weight loss strategy. By drinking green tea to lose weight, you are enlisting the aid of a powerful ingredient in the process.

Here is a clever way of maintaining a healthy weight that has been known to the Chinese and other Far eastern countries for millennia but is only recently catching on in the West.

Green tea is becoming known as a super food and ever more new health benefits keep on popping up in trials and scientific experiments.

green tea weight lossHowever, did you know that it can also be considered as a green tea fat burner?

Burning Fat

Well, in essence the green tea itself does not burn the fat, but it stimulates your body to. One of its more recently discovered health properties is that it suppresses the insulin response to eating high GI carbohydrates, refined processed foods or drinking sugary drinks.

It is the insulin response to consuming these things that causes the excess sugars to be converted into fat. This is then stored for some time in the future when your body may need them for energy.

That is assuming there will be a time in the future when you will be so restricted in your diet that you will not be able to consume sufficient sugar bearing food to provide your muscles with the energy they need to keep working.

Too Much Food to Eat

What really happens in our modern, Western society is that because we have such a surplus of food, we are highly unlikely to ever have to go without nutritious food to eat.

So as we continue to eat so much processed or high sugar-forming foods, all that fat that gets stored up just stays there. To make matters worse, the fat store is being constantly added to every time we eat more of the above foods or drink more sugary soda and other drinks.

This is what leads to excessive weight gain and the problems associated with this epidemic of becoming overweight and the many problems with obesity that is affecting our society.

A Natural Beverage to the Rescue?

Drinking green tea regularly will help to cut down on the fat storage part. It does that by reducing the amount of insulin that is released into the bloodstream to counter the effects of consuming too much bad food.

This action reduces the amount of fat that becomes stored and therefore cuts down on the amount of weight that is gained.

It's Not Foolproof

Of course, if you are really determined, you will still gain weight, get fat and eventually obese.

However, the drinking of green tea as part of a calorie controlled, low carb diet and combined with a healthy fitness and exercise program can really boost your ability to lose weight.

What's more, it also helps to then keep the weight off once you've lost it.

Antioxidant Properties

As an additional benefit of the inhibition of fat storage, the well known antioxidant properties of green tea means there will be less cellular damage done by free radicals, leading to a potential slowdown in aging.

This makes it all the more important to keep fit and healthy. That's because you will age better when you are fitter and having good health well into old age is a highly desirable situation.

Mood Enhancement

Believe it or not, there are even more beneficial properties to drinking green tea when it comes to maintaining a healthy weight. It contains properties that boost our own production of mood enhancing hormone serotonin.

So another benefit is that it lifts our mood and makes us feel good.

It's a well known fact that when you feel good, you are more likely to want to get busy with some exercises because they seem more enjoyable than when you're in a bad or depressed mood.

So let's hear it for green tea, weight loss and fat burner extraordinaire!

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