Green Tea and Weight Loss - Nature's Perfect Fat Burner

I love green tea. Really, any kind of tea is great in my book but when it comes to simplicity and pure health benefits, especially when trying to get rid of a few extra pounds, it's hard to beat. Plus, it's a very easy and inexpensive way to kick up your metabolism and lose excess weight pretty quickly.

Increased Metabolism

Since I'd imagine you don't want to become an expert on tea, I'll skip over exactly how it (or more specifically EGCG, a polyphenol found in green tea) promotes weight loss, but simply it blocks an enzyme from breaking down noradrenaline in the brain. This ramps up the part of your nervous system which controls functions like muscle tension and the release of energy from fat so when your metabolism is increased, you burn more calories while you go about your day with no additional effort. Good stuff, right?

Lose 20 Pounds With No Additional Effort

According to a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2005, people who consumed 270mg of EGCG daily burned an average of 180 extra calories per day when compared to a placebo. That breaks down to losing approximately 22 pounds per year by simply sipping on green tea! Imagine losing over 20 pounds this year by substituting this great drink for sugar-laden, calorie dense pick-me-ups like a cafe' latte. Can you imagine anything easier?

The British study went on to say that the 270mg dose was the "optimal concentration" of EGCG since the results showed that higher doses of the tea extract didn't burn any additional calories or fat. What that means is you only need to drink about 3 cups of green tea (or take 270mg of green tea extract) per day to help kick up your body's fat-burning mechanism. Simple enough, right?

Exercise + Green Tea Extract = Knockout Punch For Fat

At least if you're a mouse, that is. There was another weight loss study where the researchers fed 3 groups of mice a high fat diet. Next, they put the mice on a weight loss regiment of pure exercise, green tea extract, and a combination of the two. The results?

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