The Green Tea Diet

If  you've been searching for a simple, easy to follow diet plan, this could be what you’re looking for.  Losing weight with the Green Tea Diet is like falling off a log.  All you need to do is drink Green Tea before and after meals.  It acts as an appetite suppressant before you eat and speeds up your metabolism afterwards so not only will you take in less calories, but those you do ingest will be burned off quickly with the additional energy released in your body.  It’s okay to drink it all day

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long, but if you’re sensitive to caffeine, don’t overdo it and don’t drink any before bed.  Hopefully you like the taste of tea, lemon adds a nice touch, but if not, there are capsules available at most grocery and drug stores.  By combining Green Tea drinking with another diet, like calorie counting or portion sizing, you should notice a quicker weight loss then you normally would.  If you are truly trying to lose weight, the Green Tea diet will probably be too slow, so you will definitely want to include your usual dietary methods and use the tea as an additional ‘secret weapon.’  After your weight loss, drinking Green Tea is a great way to maintain your new look, it’s painless and it’s been proven that it works.

Brewing a pot of tea isn't as simple as it would seem, the lower quality teas are brewed hotter and longer, the better quality tea cooler and shorter.  The longest brewing time is only two or three minutes and if it’s brewed too hot or too long, the results will be disappointing.  It can get quite bitter even if it is a high quality tea, so don’t overdo it.  The hottest temperatures you’ll need are below boiling at 180-190 dg.  For the top quality tea, only 140-150 dg. and just 30-60 seconds of brewing is needed.  That’s with one teaspoon of tea per 5 oz. cup, so if you’re pot holds 6 cups, that’s 6 teaspoons of tea.  Don’t throw the leaves out after one brewing, you can simply add more water and brew it over and over until the taste goes away, usually two to three times, so essentially you get 3 cups for 1 teaspoon of tea.

Being an appetite suppressant is just about the least important thing Green Tea provides if you make it a part of your daily diet.  It’s been used for thousands of years in China as a cure-all.  If you have an ailment, Green Tea will make you feel better.  Studies in England have shown it helps reduce blood pressure, cholesterol, body fat and weight.  So if you’re overweight, this is the drink for you, especially since extremely overweight people generally have heart and blood pressure problems as well.  In Israel there are studies being made with mice on it’s use with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.  It seems the main extract from green tea, EGCG, helps protect brain cells from dying and also helps damaged neurons in the brain.  It’s also been shown to help bad eyesight, oral hygiene and as a preventative of breast cancer.  So you see, the Chinese were right all along, it is a cure-all with more discoveries yet to come, I’m sure.

So perhaps drinking Green Tea as a dietary supplement isn’t really why we should drink it.  It’s just a terrific side effect of the real reason we’re drinking it, which is to keep ourselves healthy.   By watching how much we eat and what we’re eating, i.e. less sugar, no processed foods, (try fresh, organic or Kosher meats and vegetables).  Add in some exercising and the Green Tea and we may live forever.  To find out more about Green Tea chemistry and health benefits including weight loss, visit this site:  Green Tea