Tea - Best Weight Loss Drink

When it comes to drinks, one can say, due to study and mere talk, that there are three who dominate the tastes: tea, coffee and chocolate. Chocolate being the least of the three can be set aside and so now two is left. Which of the two, however, is the one? It is said that tea ranks the highest as the most consumed beverage in the world, from ancient times, from China, up to the present day which is now.

Why tea over coffee? Simple. Though coffee can do a bit of benefit to an avid drinker, tea does a better job. Tea can actually make you lose weight more. Coffee has caffeine and all but tea has caffeine too. The good thing about tea is that it has caffeine to a lesser amount with some other added stuff. The antioxidants found in coffee are nothing compared tea. With tea, you know you're getting a lot.

Overall, what's in coffee can be found in tea. Though, in general, coffee has more caffeine than most tea, tea has more antioxidants over coffee. So, with antioxidants doing more benefit than caffeine, one can already choose the better drink. Choose what's best for you. Choose tea.

Caffeine versus Antioxidants

As said, tea contains caffeine. Green Tea, of the tea types, contains the least caffeine as compared to Oolong and Black Tea. It is true that caffeine can boost up your mood almost immediately with its amount about double to more in each cup, but it is also true that the side effects can be mild to tremendous. Caffeine, in coffee, can increase your alertness but can also cause headaches and dizziness. With Tea, you might not have the much alertness level as you might have in coffee, but you are sure enough not to get much headaches and dizziness caused by it and, in fact, rather, you would have better sleep and relaxation state. In relation to weight loss, caffeine does much to help you but not as much as tea does.

Coffee has caffeine to enhance your endurance, delay your fatigue and keep you alert in the most strenuous of exercises. Take note, however, that it can also cause you to have increased urination, stomach upset, trouble sleeping, trembling and others related. Too much caffeine is dangerous to your health. What's good thing about tea is that tea has about only half of the caffeine contained in coffee. Moreover, said previously, tea contains antioxidants that can help you with your whole exercise and diet.

Antioxidants can be preventive, curative and supportive all in all, meaning it is beneficial and only to your advantage. Tea has more antioxidants compared to coffee, in amount and type. Tea has the antioxidants, catechin and polyphenol, known to assist in the weight loss process.

How Is Losing Weight Possible?

To understand how to lose weight, one must first understand weight gain because with weight gain all efforts will be useless. Gaining weight is one of the problems you must face when you want to lose weight.

• Weight gain is made possible with energy accumulation due to unutilized energy or excessive energy intake. When you eat more than what your body needs, you gain weight. When you don't use the energy that you consume, it tends to stack up. With the much deposit of stored energy, you gain weight. Fat is a form of stored energy.

• How is fat produced? Easy. When you eat carbohydrates and proteins and you don't use them, it's when fat is produced. Likewise, fat can be obtained from the fatty foods you eat. You might be familiar with them as they are, more often than not, somewhat greasy in appearance.

Now that that's cleared up, we're now onto the actual weight loss. Weight gain is inevitable as it is an innate requirement. In order to lose weight, you have to lose weight more than you gain. That's everything there is to it.

• Weight loss is possible if your energy intake is not more than enough or less than the average and energy utilization is more than energy intake. This is it. As people tend to eat more than what their body requires, they become fat. When this fat is made use of, so is weight loss possible.

• To understand it further, the explanation would be that you lose weight when you use up more calories than your body requirements and, moreover, when it exceeds the calories contained in a pound of body weight. One pound would equal about three thousand five hundred calories. The minimum daily requirement of calorie would be about two thousand two hundred to two thousand eight hundred. In order to lose weight, you would have to exercise or do any other strenuous activity to come up with more calorie expenditure.

A more concrete explanation will give you an idea on how tea works which makes it better than coffee with weight loss.

1) Tea has antioxidants, catechins and polyphenols, that proves to let you lose weight by increasing your metabolism, inhibiting fat intake, letting you have lesser appetite and support you through the weight loss process by supplying you with your needed energy requirements.

2) With an increased metabolism, so follows thermogenesis. Thermogenesis means the body's heat production. Thus, of course, the burning of fat, cholesterol and calories. With antioxidants, energy consumption is promoted.

3) Polyphenols have been known to provide one with the much immunity support so that you won't get sick in the process of losing weight. With these antioxidants, you can be sure that you are losing weight safely.

4) Cathecins have also been proven to suppress one's appetite by stopping the enzyme that promotes inhibition of catecholamines, dopamine and norepinephrine, which causes a pleasure sense and lesser appetite.

5) Tea has also this property that inhibits fat absorption. With this, having no added fat, it is clear to take note that there is no other way to go but to lose weight.

Huang Jiung,
Chinese Weight Loss Tea for BEGINNERS