Long grueling workouts and restrictive diets suck. Instead of driving yourself crazy, sip something that fries flab for you.
Whether it be cuddling up on the couch or relaxing by the fire, there’s something about a steaming cup of tea that makes all of life’s simple things seem all the more relaxing. While tea is indeed soothing, it’s also unassumingly strong. Some brews can help you stop snacking while others can boost your calorie burn. However, others varieties are so mighty that they can even melt the flab right off your frame. Yes, we realize that may sound like an opening line for a cheesy weight loss pill advertisement, but you can’t argue with science. We’ve scoured the research journals to bring you the best fat-frying brews on supermarket shelves—so just sit back, start sipping and watch your fat melt away!
Will Drinking Green Tea Help You Get a Flat Stomach?
If you’re trying to shed the jiggle around your waistline, green tea may be a smart addition to your diet and exercise program. Although drinking tea won’t make the fat magically melt away, it may help enhance your results. Don’t go overboard, however; MedlinePlus recommends drinking no more than 5 cups of green tea per day to avoid caffeine-related side effects.
Green Tea Basics
Like all teas, green tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. Green tea is less processed than black or oolong tea, however, and therefore has higher concentrations of antioxidants called polyphenols. In particular, green tea’s catechin polyphenols are credited for the beverage’s possible role in increasing fat burning. Catechins appear to work synergistically with caffeine, so drinking decaffeinated green tea may not produce the same effect. Read More…
5 Types of Tea That Help You Lose Weight
A steaming cup of tea is the perfect drink for soothing a sore throat, warming up after a dip in the pool, or binge-watching Downton Abbey. But certain teas are also perfect for doing something else—helping you shed extra pounds.
I first learned about the weight-loss power of tea when my mother fell victim to diabetes. A former nurse back in Korea, she urged me to look into Eastern remedies when it became clear that Western science couldn’t help her. And time and again, as I pored through the studies, the same answer kept popping up: tea. What I learned in my research, and collected in my new book, The 7-Day Flat Belly Tea Cleanse, in which test panelists lost up to 10 pounds in just one week, was that certain teas not only melt fat by boosting metabolism, but can actually prevent our bodies from forming new fat cells.
Each of these 5 Best Teas for Weight Loss has its own individual, magic properties, from dimming your hunger hormones to upping your calorie burn to—literally—melting the fat that’s stored in your fat cells. Oh, and they can also help reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes too. (Stick to 3-4 cups—or tea bags—of tea per day, and choose brewed varieties over bottled to avoid extra calories and sweeteners.) Read More…
Stress-Busting Tea for Weight Loss
A recent study at Penn State found that people who react badly to stressful situations have increased levels of inflammation in their bodies—and inflammation is directly tied to obesity, as well as diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. When anxiety rides high, you’re also at the mercy of stress hormones such as cortisol—known as “the belly fat hormone” for its ability to pull lipids from the bloodstream and store them in our fat cells. And a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that when stress prevents people from sleeping well, they are more likely to make bad food choices, snack late at night, and choose high-carb snacks.
These are just three of the reasons people tend to suffer weight gain and health crises when they’re under pressure. In fact, it was shortly after the death of my father that my mom, a former nurse in Korea, suffered a dramatic increase in her diabetes symptoms—a health emergency that sent me in search of traditional Eastern remedies. What I learned in my research, and collected in my new book, The 7-Day Flat Belly Tea Cleanse, in which test panelists lost up to 10 pounds in just one week, was that different teas help our bodies manage stress in different ways—and that can make all the difference in our weight and our health. Read More…
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