Everyone recognizes that exercise is crucial to losing weight. It
helps burn calories, increases your energy level, and helps build
muscle that in turn stimulates your metabolism even more. The catechin
polyphenols found in green tea seem to stimulate the liver's and muscle
cell's use of fatty acids. This in turn slows the rate that
carbohydrates are utilized which helps sustain endurance for longer
periods of exercise. Actually, a study that gave green tea extract to
lab rats enhanced the quantity of time that the rats could swim before
tiring out by as much as 24 percentage points. Greater endurance means
increased exercise, which leads to more calories being burned, and in
turn more pounds lost.
Research conducted by the Japanese and
scientists suggests that if the average individual drank five cups of
the tea each day, they would then burn an extra 70 or 80 extra calories
due to an effect known as thermogenesis. This is the process of the
production of heat in organisms. Although much of the thermogenesis
effect found in green tea is due to its caffeine content, studies also
imply that thermogenesis in green tea is beyond the level of caffeine
found in it and due to the presence of epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG.
No
matter what the cause, an extra 70 or 80 calories burned each day
doesn't come near the 500 calorie loss needed each day in order to drop a
pound a week. And it's not anywhere near the calorie deficit required
to drop "inches per week" from your waist that some sites promote. Based
on the research, if an individual did nothing different beside adding
five cups of green tea each day to their diet, then over a period of 43
days you could count on losing about a pound. Over a one year period,
you could anticipate about an 8 pound weight loss. So although there is a
correlation between weight loss and green tea consumption, it's not at
the level that some think
It is clear that drinking this tea alone
won't be enough for significant weight loss. Still, however, green tea
can be useful as an aid to weight loss. The extra 80 calories burned a
day may be just what you need to help tip the scales from too many
calories to a calorie deficit, particularly when you also eat a balanced
diet and exercise regularly.
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