Green teas have been found to have positive effects in the arena of skin care. Two specific areas include acne and eczema. For acne, this tea makes a great, cheap alternative to expensive toners or astringents.
In addition to skin care, another benefit of green tea claimed by manufactuers is that it can be used as part of a homemade mouthwash.So what property of this light drink helps keep your teeth healthy? It’s the presence of fluoride that helps prevent tooth decay and strengthens your teeth and gums.
Green tea does help a person lose weight but do not expect green tea to be a magic cure-all or a single solution product, though. Studies show that drinking a moderate amount of green tea helps to burn 80 calories a day. This may not sound like much, but 80 calories a day translates to approximately 8 pounds per year. So green tea will help you lose some weight, and over several years time this can help you live a healthier life.
Green tea contains high concentrations of catechin polyphenols. These compounds work with other chemicals to intensify levels of fat oxidation and thermogenesis, where heat is created in the body by burning fuels such as fat. Green tea also causes carbohydrates to be released slowly, preventing sharp increases in blood-insulin levels. This promotes the burning of fat.
The thermogenic effect was originally attributed to its caffeine content. However, green tea stimulates brown fat thermogenesis far greater than a comparable amount of pure caffeine. It appears that the catechin-polyphenols, in particular epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), and caffeine that naturally occur in green tea work synergistically to stimulate thermogenesis and augment and prolong sympathetic stimulation of thermogenesis. It has been shown to increase 24-hour energy expenditure and fat oxidation (caffeine only increases metabolism during the time you take it).
There are also claims that green tea suppresses your appetite. This probably depends on what the green tea is replacing. Caffeine tends to cause an increase in appetite, so if green tea reduces your caffeine consumption, it might help your appetite. Also, sugar also increases appetite, because it causes insulin production, which in turn increases appetite. The sugar crash also leads people to seek more food for more energy. Therefore, if you are replacing high-caffeine, high-sugar drinks with green tea, it is likely to help decrease your appetite.
Don't assume that you can drink more green tea to help you lose more weight, though. There is a law of diminishing returns with any weight loss technique, and if you drink too much green tea, you might experience negative side effects of the caffeine you'll be drinking. In fact, studies show that caffeine drinkers (and even green tea drinkers) lose weight at about 5% or 10% reduced efficiency. Don't think green tea is bad for you in sum total, though.
Losing weight slower is better. If you drop all your weight at once, you probably went on a crash diet to do it. Much of your weight loss will be water weight, and you probably won't be able to sustain the effort you made to lose the weight in the first place. When you starve yourself, your body metabolism changes. Your body slows down its metabolism, trying to conserve energy. It thinks you are starving and therefore tries to protect you. When you start to eat again, that slow metabolism continues for weeks, and you experience the kind of rebound, where you put all that weight back on. That's horrible for your morale.
If you want to lose weight and stay healthy, though, green tea can be an important contributor to your weight loss program. Try following these green tea weight loss tips: Drink 3-6 cups of green tea per day and see if it relieves stress, decreases appetite and gives you more energy. Don't expect green tea will single-handedly end your weight gain problems.
Source : PowerfulRemedies.com
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