Green Tea And Weight Loss

All of us are ready to shed a few calories and you know that the amount of calories consumed is far more than the calories that are burnt by your body in order to lose weight. This losing weight process takes a lot of your time and you are always on a look out to lose weight faster and rather more easily.

The only one weight loss program that has proved beneficial to all is the use of green tea. Green tea has shown to have a lot of effect on the insulin level of your body and is also known to control and regulate this and helps to control and lower the bad cholesterol of LDL cholesterol in the body along with triglycerides which are known to cause heart ailments. Green tea also helps increase the metabolic activities of the body thus helping faster burning of fats and calories of the body by sending out signals that the stomach is full thus preventing your urge to eat food.

Green tea is high in nutrient values and contains potential antioxidants that helps keep the body fit and healthy and at the same time prevents diseases thus fighting against the free radicals that are known to cause various diseases. Green tea has also proved to prevent not only heart ailments but also reduces the risk of cancer simultaneously. Green tea not only keeps you healthy it also helps you remain slim and trim.

How does green tea work?

Green tea contains Caffeine, Catechins and Theanine. All these three have their own role to play.

Caffeine: Green tea contains far lesser quantity of caffeine in comparison to coffee or even Black tea. Green tea does not cause any kind of heart palpitation nor does it give you any jitters or shakes but helps speedup your metabolic activities thus helping you lose weight at a faster rate.

Theanine: A rich source of amino acids, theanine contains all the natural qualities to help calm and alter your mood swings and help balance your body as it is known to release dopamine a chemical that which is produced in your brain which provides the much needed tranquillity to your body. Theanine is known to reduce the effects of caffeine in your body. Theanine on its own does not have any weight losing properties but as it helps de-stress yourself it prevents you to over eat when you are stressed out.

Catechins: Green tea contains antioxidants and Catechins are the polyphenol antioxidants containing flavan-3ols. These are found in many other plants like the cocoa plant, coffee plant etc but Catechins originally were found in tea plants of Camellia sinensis. Green tea has a higher content of Catechins compared to Black tea and as green tea does not ferment it retains Catechins in its original form thus proving more beneficial to people using green tea as it helps suppress lipid or fat absorption from your body to the blood. Catechins are known to reduce the cholesterol level in your body thus helping prevent many a heart ailments which are known to be associated with the high level of cholesterol in your body.