drinking green tea?

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• 1 Safi // May, 2008

  I have heard this and i believe it does help speed up your metabolism. It also a good source of anti-oxidants. Only down side is it can stain your teeth and the caffeine, but you can get caffeine-free, but taste a bit ordinary. I drink Tetley - Emperor's garden. It has a nice light taste. I'm in Australia though so not sure if this is available to everyone.

• 2 sirdraco7 // May, 2008

  Yes, green tea can boost metabolism. But only slightly.
  There is no documented proof(currently) of using Green tea to aid in weight loss. So it does, but nothing major.

  The brand is basically up to preference.
  However ideally fresh tea or loose tea usually have the most flavor, and nutrient value compared to store bought boxed bags.
  As for what kind? that all depends as there are several hundred different kinds of tea(maybe many more than that)
  And they all differ in taste and what they do.

  I've been told that using a ceramic kettle to brew your tea in can help with long term nutrient gain from tea as well.

  Pros is that tea has been long used to aid in many different health related symptoms. Green tea aids in digestion. Mint tea can help clear stuffy noses and ginger tea helps to heal hangovers.
  Cons? many have caffeine. That is really the only con to drinking it. Other than that tea has no cons.

  As for iced or hot? that is personal preference. However mint tea is best served hot, to make best use of it's vaper.

  I like both. hot or iced. There is no difference between the two for taste or what it offers, so how you have it is however you decide.

  Time of day.. depends on you. Anytime. Though drinking it late might cause mid night potty breaks and inability to sleep due to the caffeine in it. lol

  I hope this helps!

• 3 here_nor_there // May, 2008

  I exercise 2 hours a day at least. I was more interested in muscle building than weight loss. I decided to start drinking green tea to help boost immunity (because it was found green tea drastically reduces sepsis and I have an upcoming surgery and prone to infection). After two weeks of drinking a quart of green tea (no sugar added) throughout the day, I dropped 5 pounds. I don't know that if you had poor habits that it'd be realistic to expect miracles in weight loss, but I do think the green tea may have given me a push.

  I drink cold green tea that brew I myself. Also, I put the teabag in the hot water for a minute to reduce the oxalates, caffeine, etc and throw out that first batch because tea bothers my stomach. Then I use the pre-steeped bags to steep again in the next batch of water which I actually end up drinking. I never drink the first brew tea. I also believe Japanese and Chinese tea rituals involve the same process, they throw out the first brew.

  The amount I drink is 2 green tea bags for quart of water. Drink this quart throughout the period of the day if you can. What you will first notice is that you have to urinate what seems a lot extra for the amount of green tea you're taking in. What green tea does is help push out retained water. You won't start losing weight right away. After a couple of weeks of this process and having to go to the bathroom a lot, you'll begin to see the weight loss. Also, the need to urinate so frequently tapers off and goes back to normal. Like I said after a couple of weeks, I dropped 5 pounds and hadn't changed anything.

  What happens is that water retention interferes with weight loss. Meaning, it seems that people who have an extra hard time losing weight (I never had a hard time with weight) also seem likely to retain water. If the body has a hard time releasing water, it also has a hard time pushing fat metabolism. And so green tea pushes the process with the water first.

  http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/6/1040

  P.S. I drink it cold out of preference.

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