Weight
Loss from Green Tea Antioxidant
Basically, there are only two ways to lose weight. Either
you don’t eat; or you exercise like mad. Unfortunately,
doing either will likely lead you to end up in the hospital.
So, what to do, what to do?
Already lauded as a powerful health drink, green tea
antioxidant also helps dieters shed fat. How? Well, before
we answer that question, let us first delve a little bit
into the history of green tea antioxidant.
The History of Green Tea Antioxidant
Green tea antioxidant was first used in ancient China. It is
said that while the emperor’s servants were boiling water,
some leaves of a nearby plant fell on it. The scent was so
fragrant and the resulting tea was so delicious that the
emperor readily wanted his tea to be made of this plant.
That plant later came to be known in the scientific world as
Camellia sinensis, the plant where black tea, oolong tea,
and green tea antioxidants come from.
Weight Loss Benefits of Green Tea Antioxidant
Now, hundreds of thousands of years later, green tea
antioxidants have certainly come a long way, from a simple
health drink to something even medicinal. Cancer research
has paid much attention to the benefits of green tea
antioxidants for apparently, they have a preventive effect
on cancer cells, stopping them from growing and multiplying.
The free
radicals that cause most cancers are neutralized by
green tea antioxidants.
Green tea antioxidants have also been linked to several
other diseases for its apparent curative and preventive
effects. Green tea antioxidants are said to reduce the risk
of heart
disease and even degenerative disorders most associated
with aging, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s
disease, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, and more.
Yet for all its wondrous benefits, nothing could be more
surprising that green tea antioxidant’s apparent weight
loss benefits. In a study on the weight loss effects of
green tea antioxidants, scientists found out that the 24
hour energy expenditure of 10 healthy men receiving doses of
green tea antioxidants showed a significant increase of 4%.
To measure the exact weight loss benefits, the investigators
gave three doses of caffeine (50 mg), green tea extract, and
a dummy placebo every day. The weight loss team given green
tea appeared to lose more weight than the ones given only
placebo and caffeine.
Apparently, much of the weight loss benefits of green tea
lies in its thermogenic effects. Weight loss is promoted
when green tea antioxidants stimulate the cells to
metabolize fats faster, thus leading to more energy and
greater weight loss.
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