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From green tea capsules to green tea tablets, loose leaf green tea, green tea extract, organic green tea, green tea weight loss, green tea skin care, multivitamins with green tea, have you ever stopped for a moment and thought of the health benefits of green tea?
If like me you can’t name 10 benefits of green tea, which by the way have been validated by recent studies and scientific researches, then click here to read it all and test your knowledge. This information could change your life. It did change mine.
If you’re trying to lose weight you may want to reach for a cup of green tea instead of a diet beverage. Compared to the placebo and caffeine, green tea extract consumption produced a significant 4% increase in 24-hour energy expenditure. If you consume 2,000 calories per day and don’t gain or lose weight, an increase of 4% would translate roughly into an 80-calorie daily difference. Over a year, this could result in nine pounds of weight loss.
Recent evidence shows that in the battle of fat loss, the benefits of green tea may be superior to plain caffeine. According to a new study, green tea appears to accelerate calorie burning - including fat calories. Researchers suggest compounds in green tea called flavonoids may change how the body uses a hormone called norepinephrine, which then speeds the rate calories are burned.
A study shows that people who drink about 4 cups of green tea a day seem to get less cancer. Now we may know why. In recent test-tube studies, a compound called EGCG, a powerful antioxidant in tea, inhibited an enzyme that cancer cells need in order to grow. The cancer cells that couldn’t grow big enough to divide self-destructed. It would take about 4 cups of green tea a day to get the blood levels of EGCG that inhibited cancer in the study. Black tea also contains EGCG, but at much lower concentrations.