Green Tea Weight Loss: The Truth That Grew From A Lie - By: Cornell Dayne

What ever you do, always avoid that bandwagon of fly by night passerby’s advocating the shiny new diet trend of the moment. That bandwagon is crowded, rickety, and a potential hazard to you soft backside and a hard head.

But when it’s something as natural as green tea, forget my bandwagon rule and jump on if there’s space because that there wagon’s going places.

Even a blind man once pointed out the obvious saying that over a billion Chinese people drink it, and they’re all thin, right? (I do think that he underestimates the role that manual labor plays in the equation) But what is the truth about the connection between green tea and weight loss?

Well, first of all, not all Chinese people are thin, obviously. So let’s take that kind of simplistic thinking off the table right now.

However, green tea has been around for thousands of years, and it plays a large role in Eastern medicine. Although the FDA has refused to study green tea, other studies worldwide have proven its health benefits.

* In England, studies showed that fat oxidation is 17 percent higher after drinking green tea than a placebo, and more if the test subject was participating in moderate exercise as well.

* Polyphenols, the main antioxidant in green tea, was shown to have kept brain cells from dying in mice that had both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

* Several areas of cancer research have findings showing that “a standardized green tea polyphenol preparation” limited tumor growth.

* Another study in Tennessee found that green tea extract lowered cholesterol in its test subjects.

* A nutritional study showed that drinking green tea daily reduced body fat levels over a period of 12 weeks.

* In Germany, the effects of green tea on damaged skin were studied, with overwhelmingly positive results.

From these, and other encouraging results, it looks like green tea certainly won’t kill you, and can even help in many cases. But that doesn’t mean that it’s the panacea of weight loss either.

The only way you’re going to lose weight is by combining green tea with little good ole dieting and exercise.

That’s it.

There’s no magic green tea solution to your weight problem.

You can start by replacing all the junk you drink during the day with green tea instead. This means no more sodas, fattening coffee concoctions, and strawberry smoothies. If you like iced tea, instead of making a sugary batch of Nestea from concentrate, give green tea a try.

There are green tea extract pills, and they won’t hurt you either. But again, no matter what the advertisements tell you, it’s not a cure-all weight loss plan that will magically melt the pounds away.

Drinking a cup of green tea every day will be a tremendous benefit to your health. This cannot be denied. But green tea weight loss has not been proven yet.

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