Green tea is loaded with antioxidants and various substances that are good for your health. Green tea is known as the healthiest beverage on the planet and studies have proven that green tea can help you lose weight as well as raise your fat-burning process. The mechanism behind this great tea is that when you drink a cup of this amazing tea, you are also receiving a huge amount of beneficial substances with positive and effective biological effects.
Caffeine is a stimulant that aids fat burning and improves exercise performance and the most well known beverage is caffeine and although green tea contains less caffeine than the amount found in a cup of coffee, it is still enough to be effective. Below are a few ways that green tea can help you lose weight.
1. Mobilization of fat from fat cells
The active compound in green tea helps in burning fat, but first, the fat has to be broken down in the fat cell and moved into the bloodstream. The active compound aids by boosting the effects of few of the hormones responsible for fat burning. The fat cells breaks down more fat and then releases it into the bloodstream, which becomes available for use as energy by cells that need it. An example of this is the muscle cell.
2, Increases fat burn during exercise
Green tea has the ability to increase the the rate at which fat burns during an exercise. A study showed that men who drank green tea and exercised burned more fat than men who didn’t drink green tea. Well, from the study we can see that green tea can increase the fat burning effects during exercise.
3. Increase in metabolic rate
We all know that the human body is always burning calories and this could be anytime: when sleeping, walking or even when sitting down. The body cells requires energy for performing different functions and green tea can help you burn calories more even at rest.
4. Reduces appetite
Green tea can help you lose weight by reducing appetite. The risk of taking in more calories automatically reduces. Lastly, green tea can be taken anytime, but it is best taken in the morning for better effects.
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