Friday, January 2, 2009

Losing weight with green tea is fast and easy

By Dave Rodgers

Green tea is a very inexpensive, natural beverage that has many great weight loss benefits. It is a simple addition to your weight loss. It tastes good, so you don't have to add the artificial sweeteners, milk or cream. Green tea extract can be used if you don't like the taste of green tea.

You can reduce body weight by stimulating the body's thermogenesis process drinking greet tea. This thermogenesis process helps to increase the expenditure of energy. It also helps to oxidize fat in the body. Many of the compounds found in the plants have this effect. You can get the same effects of diet pills such as ephidrine, but without all the dangerous side affects.

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.

There are many ways to lose weight. The only real way to lose weight is by consuming less calories and by exercising more. With the use of green tea along with a sensible eating plan and exercise one can increase there energy output by aproximately 4%. It is said that catechin found in green tea is the factor that increases this energy output.

The powerful antioxidants contained in green tea have found to be very beneficial to your health. This includes improving the immune system, by stengthening it, it allows your body to protect itself against disease processes.

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.

At the same time you will need to exercise control in what you eat. If you eat more to compensate for the calories that are burnt by the tea, you will not lose any weight. Keeping to the same calorific intake that you have now and taking green tea should result in gradual weight loss and better energy levels over a few weeks. You can of course increase the speed of this by reducing calorie consumption and/or increasing exercise.

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. - 16003

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