Green tea has recently become very popular in the western hemisphere of the world. Green tea has been used in Asian for a very long time and now people here in the United States are starting to use it for weight loss and are having a lot of success with it. The green tea diet has been featured on Oprah and other TV talk shows and has been proven to be a healthy, fast way to shed those extra pounds.
What The Heck is The Green Tea Diet?
The green tea diet is basically just consuming green tea on a regular basis. It comes in pill form and as patch but the most popular is the powder that you can actually mix with any drink you want be it water, juice or coffee. It also comes in the form of regular tea bags. The green tea diet works by speeding up the body's metabolism while at the same time decreasing your appetite.
The Green Tea Diet for Health
Green tea has been used in China for thousands of years for treating certain diseases and body ailments and recent western scientific research has proven a wide variety of health benefits. Here is a list:
- lower levels of cholesterol
- keeps your teeth clean and healthy
- makes you feel upbeat and alert
- minimize the chances of growing cancer cells
- thins blood and helps protects against heart attacks
- treats high blood pressure
- minimizes the aging process
- helps improve cardiovascular system
- help improve or prevent arthritis
- help prevent diabetes
- protect against viruses like colds by toughing up the immune system
- prevent Alzheimer's disease
And the best of all :
- help you lose weight and stay trim!
How does the green tea diet work?
Green tea works by producing an antioxidant effect, speeding up metabolism and decreasing your appetite which in turn speeds up the process of fat burning immensely. Green tea extract is one of the best natural antioxidants in the world which makes it great for weight loss. The antioxidant effect of green tea is produced by bio-flavonoids that are designed to protect your bodies cells from harmful radicals. These harmful radicals are because the metabolism has a bad oxidative effect that can cause great harm to your body's cells.
All in all the green tea diet is a very smart and healthy option for most people who hate very strict rules on what types of food you can eat and how many calories to consume each day. Everyday exercising can also get old which makes the green tea diet extremely attractive. There is no side effects to staying healthy the green tea way so drink green tea and start reaping the benefits.
Check out my neighbors recent posting of her green tea diet weight loss experiment, the results are simply amazing.
by Brett Brinkley
