I have lately read much on the subject of Green Tea and its aid to losing weight. Most researchers give credence to the fact that drinking Green Tea increases the metabolic rate and there fore can be a help in a weight loss programme. However, most experts disagree over the amount of help that Green Tea gives. The experts findings range from ?insignificant? to ?major breakthrough? status.
Celebrity personalities are known to drink Green Tea to help weight loss (Victoria Beckham supposedly being one of the most prominent) and now giant pharmaceutical companies such as Boots plc in the UK are putting Green Tea extract in to their latest dietary products. All these things are giving us the signal that consumption of Green Tea will help us easily shed those extra pounds!
But what if the goodness in Green Tea is not the biggest benefit the brew gives to weight watchers, but the most help actually comes from the actual act of drinking the tea?
Over the last few years I have personally suffered with my weight, mainly because I had a lousy diet and a fairly sedentary lifestyle. I have now taken to drinking Green Tea when under normal circumstances I would have eaten something which would probably have been bad for me. (French fries or a chocolate bar)
The result of this is that drinking the Green Tea genuinely gives a feeling of filling the stomach and the ?hunger pains? go away at least for a little while.
The outcome of drinking Green Tea (at least half a dozen large cups a day) has been a reasonable weight loss, which if I only got into a regular exercise regime could, I feel, become a significant loss.
The bottom line in this is that on its own Green Tea has great benefits and includes ingredients which go some of the way towards helping the weight loss many of us crave, but it is not a cure-all on its own. It certainly, however, helps in more than one way, and I think we need all the help we can get.
Mike Linder
