Green Tea Extract Weight LossIIs green tea extract for weight loss the ultimate fat solution?
Can you really now have your cake (fat) and eat it? It seems so, as long as you have green tea extract to wash it down with? Without knowing about green tea extract weight loss and health benefits numerous nations around the world have grown and drank tea for centuries. As it turns out from research, these tea drinking cultures have lower cholesterol levels, obesity, diabetes and degenerative bone loss problems and generally speaking have overall higher levels of health. Although practitioners of Indian and Chinese traditional medicine have treated illness and disease with tea extracts for centuries, it is only now that western researchers are realizing that tea have preventative and restorative powers. Why does Green Tea Extract benefit Weight Loss? Green tea extract especially contributes to weight loss because although all teas come from the same base plant, Camellia sinensis, green tea leaves are left unfermented. All tea leaves contain a few beneficial polyphenols, about 3-10% in black tea and about 30-40% in green tea because green tea is not fermented and it seems the fermentation process destroys these polyphenols partially. These polyphenols are classified as catechins and they have very strong antioxidant properties and aid in losing weight as well as burning fat. Green tea contains six of these catechins, with the most active one being called “epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG. Proof that Green Tea Extract Weight Loss Works One 12 week study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition studied a 100 healthy adults and found that "Green Tea Catechin Consumption Enhances Exercise-Induced Abdominal Fat Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults". Participants were separated into groups and agreed to do 3 hours of moderate intensity exercise during each week. One group was given 625mg catechins (also present in green tea extract) daily and the other group was given a control beverage with caffeine added to match the levels of the catechin beverage. The study found that the group that consumed catechins lost more body weight, abdominal fat and subcutaneous fat than the control group that consumed caffeine. Another recent human study of 12 healthy adults in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2006 found that polyphenol-enriched oolong tea (a partially fermented tea) helps to excrete the lipid fats and cholesterol through faecal stools after fatty foods had been eaten. The study involved giving the participants fat lipids from potato chips after meals as well as either a placebo drink or polyphenol-rich tea . In the case of the participants that were given the polyphenol-rich tea their faecal stool excretion increased, suggesting that tea polyphenols protects against the dangers of excessive dietary fat absorption. Study that Proof Green Tea Extract Prevents Fat Digestion Another study conducted by The National Center for Biotechnology Information not within the human body but in test tubes, suggested that green tea extract prevent the digestion of fat by inhibiting fat-digesting enzymes. This is great news as it means that green tea extract likely reduces fat digestion and consumption of excess fat calories in people. Is it safe to use Green Tea Extract for Weight Loss? There are many synthetic or chemical weight loss methods, but tea therapies being all-natural are usually safe. If you are taking green tea extract pills or capsules please refer to the manufacturer’s dosage instructions and possible side effects as they may contain other ingredients |