Lose Weight Permanently Without Dieting
How To Lose Weight And Keep Fat Off Forever Without Strict Diet How many times have you heard a friend say, “I am on a diet”? Then what happens is your friend would lose some weight for a while before putting them all back on again. I’ll bet you have also seen someone say that “Cardio is the best for losing weight”. This person would then religiously pound the treadmill but results are agonizingly slow. Soon, he gives up and gains back all the weight he had lost, and sometimes even gaining some extra kilos! Ah, so you thought you’ve finally found the answer to permanent weight loss. You went on a strict diet and ran your heart out. You dropped kilos real quickly. But somehow, something is wrong when you look into the mirror in your birthday suit. Yes you have lost some weight, but somehow your body shape isn’t as flattering as you would like it to be. And then suddenly, you hit a plateau. No matter how strict your diet and cardio workouts are, your weight just simply refuses to drop any further. Then horrors of horrors, you actually start to gain some weight! You get disillusioned because with the unrewarding program and soon you succumb to ‘guilt food’ more often, and the weight comes right back up once again. The program fails and you blame it on your bad genes. Why??? Here’s why. Firstly, take a good look at the title of this article. It’s to “Fend Off Fats” and not “lose weight”. My point is, by merely losing weight, you will also lose some muscle mass in the process. By losing muscles, you will lose body tone and thus your metabolism rate for burning calories will slow down. Therefore, you have got to build muscles while losing fats. You may even gain some weight because muscles are heavier than fats. To lose fats and keep them off permanently, you have to combine healthy eating habits, incorporate cardio exercises and lift weights to build muscles. For every kg of muscles you pack, you will burn an extra 70-100 calories per day even without doing anything. Can you imagine the benefits of building up 5kg of extra muscles? You will be burning 350 to 500 extra calories a day even if you just laze around. You’ll be burning a Big Mac everyday! To further illustrate my point, 1 kg = about 7,700 calories, thus if you burn 500 calories a day because of the extra muscles you have, you will be burning off about 1 kg every 2 weeks simply because of your higher metabolism rate! You’ll also look good, healthy and well-toned too! Is it any wonder why body builders eat so much but do not put on fat as easily? Everyone knows that intensive cardio and strict diets cause you to lose muscle mass along with fats. So while you will lose some weight at the beginning, you will look like, well, just a smaller version of you without any muscle tone. That’s not what we want is it? So, as you lose more and more muscles, your metabolism begins to slow down. On top of that, your body will start conserving fats and ‘eat’ your muscles for energy because it is reacting to your strict diet. What happens then is that you will hit a plateau and no matter what you do, you will not reduce anymore weight and your fats will start creeping up again. This, in a nutshell, is the ‘yo-yo’ dieting effect that we hear so much about. Losing fats is simple. And notice that I said ’simple’ but did not say that it is ‘easy’. My pointers will be simple to understand, but the execution will take determination and discipline on your part. It is a lifestyle change to keep the fats off permanently and you will be glad you did because you will get used to the changes in only a few weeks. By then, it will become a cultivated habit for you, especially when you are rewarded with a fitter, healthier, hunkier you, together with a glowing complexion to boot! Here is how you do it. Simply, losing fats just means you must burn more calories than you consume. Period. Lift weights with compound exercises - Forget those puny biceps curls and tricep push downs. Go for big muscle groups like legs, back and chest routines. Why? Because you are working with bigger parts with more mass, and that means more body parts are working, translating into more calories being expended. If you are fit, do giant sets (4 or more exercises or sets with no rest in between sets or exercises). Here’s an example. Do only one set of each exercise with no rest in between the exercises. Choose a weight of about 60%-70% of what you normally lift and go for at least 25 reps. Do more if you can or until your muscles are fatigued, then stop. Leave the gym. The whole routine should not take you more than 40 minutes. After thoroughly warming up, start with squats, then dip, bench press, barbell row and military press. Sounds simple? Not so. You will be huffing, puffing and sweating profusely. What is achieved? You will have combined a cardio workout with a lifting workout and your metabolism will burn for the next several hours. Do this 3 times a week with at least a day’s rest in between lifting days. After 4-8 weeks, change the sequence of the exercises. So if you usually squat first, then squat last. Then after another 4-8 weeks, change some of the exercises, like substituting squats with dead lift, or bar bell rows with lat pull down. This is to shock your muscles so that they continue to adapt and grow. For cardio, go for a run first thing in the morning before breakfast. If you are jogging at normal speed, sustain the jog for at least 45 minutes. If you are running at 65% to 80% of your maximum heart rate (you will be panting and unable to sing or complete a sentence while running), then 20-30 minutes will be enough. Anything more than that may cause muscle break down. You may intersperse the speed with slower jogs in between to catch your breath. Do these 5-6 times a week. Eating habits? Just eat less of what you normally eat. For example if you have 2 slices of bread with 2 eggs in the morning, now take just one slice and an egg. Just eat half of what you eat but eat more regularly. Have 5 to 6 meals a day if you can. This is to feed your body frequently so that it will not go into starvation mode and start to conserve fats. At the same time, it will boost metabolism because your body burns calories while digesting the food. Chuck away all soft drinks, sugared drinks and stop adding sugar into your coffee and tea. Just by abstaining from sugary drinks, you may already have gotten rid yourself of 200 calories per day. Drink plenty of water instead and double the amount if you can. Oh, by the way, all work and no play makes Jack a dull (and very tired) boy. Do choose a day to relax a week. No exercise on that day. Indulge in your favorite food if you must. Hey, pat yourself on the back and reward yourself for passing another grueling week. After all, your body needs to recover too. As you reach your fat loss goals and you are happy with your muscular development, you can then take things a little easier. Hit the gym less frequently, have shorter runs and even relax a little in your diet. Because of your greater musculature, your body is now a fat-burning machine. You have earned that luxury. Simple? Sure. But do you have the determination enough to lose those fats and keep them off permanently? Who said you must go on a strict diet to lose weight and keep the fat off forever? It’s your call folks! Chris Chew fitness personal trainer of actors, pageant winners, models and celebrities. See his websites <A HREF="http://www.sgfitness.com">Lose Fat Fast Build Muscles Quickly!</A> and <A HREF="http://www.sgfitnessonline.com">Singapore Fitness Personal Trainers</A> (more…)

Making Lifestyle Changes For Permanent Weight Loss
So you want to lose some weight. Almost all of us have felt this way at some time or another. Maybe it’s some holiday weight you want to work off, or maybe you’ve just decided that you would feel and look better with a little less bulk. Whatever the reason, losing weight can sometimes be difficult. It’s often the case that you find yourself dealing with a very restrictive diet that is difficult to stick to, or other inconveniences. You can avoid much of this, however, by making some lifestyle changes that incorporate more healthy activities into your daily routine.
Although everyone will likely be tempted to try and lose weight as quickly as possible, unless you feel for some reason that this is absolutely necessary, it’s better to take a long term approach. If you want to lose weight quickly, it’s likely that you’re going to have to make a restrictive and drastic diet change that will be hard to implement. This also means there’s a good chance you will simply put the weight back on when you diet is over, or when you (inevitably) lapse from it.
A far better long term solution is making some lifestyle changes. Not only will this be an easier way to lose weight, but those pounds you lose will stay lost. The reason that lifestyle changes are an effective way to lose weight is that you don’t have to alter your daily routine too much. Many people find the exercise regimens and diet changes involved in quick weight loss unrealistic - you never have enough hours in the day as it is, so it’s hard to make more for exercise.
The best place to start in your attempt to lose weight is to look at things you do every day. First and foremost for most people is going to work. Many people live close enough to their employers to bike, but choose instead to drive. By biking to work you will not only be getting exercise and working towards your goal of losing weight, you will be saving money and doing a good thing for the environment. Try and think of other small changes in a similar vein: take the stairs instead of the elevator, go for a walk on your lunch break instead of sitting at your desk. Although these chances may seem small and suspiciously convenient, they will go along way towards losing weight.
The other more pro-active way to lose weight through a lifestyle change is to engage in more athletic activities. Take up a sport, or go hiking on weekends. The beauty of this is that these things are entirely recreational: you’re having fun at the same time that you’re losing weight. It’s much easier and more enjoyable to commit to going on a hike every weekend or playing tennis with a friend than it is to sit alone in gym: after all, there’s a reason they call it “work”ing out.
Lifestyle changes go a long way towards losing weight, and anyone who incorporates some of the changes listed above should find themselves able to lose weight permanently.By Abbas Abedi—To make weight loss easy visit my blog <a href=http://weight–loss–hypnosis.blogspot.com/ title="weight loss hypnosis”>Weight Loss Hypnosis</a> (more…)

Overweight? Have You Given Away Your Power?
Are you unhappily overweight? Do you despair of getting to the right size and shape for you? Is it because you?ve given away your power? Do you let others decide on your portion size? When you eat in a restaurant, buy a ready meal, buy chocolate or an ice cream, do you let the producer decide what is the amount you should eat by finishing whatever the portion size happens to be? Next time you?re in a restaurant take back your power and decide for yourself when you?ve had enough. Do you let inanimate objects decide whether or not you?re a good person that day? Do you weigh yourself, and feel bad if you haven?t lost weight, letting the scales determine how you feel about yourself? You know your weight will fluctuate from day to day anyway. What?s important is the overall trend. What?s even more important is what type of person you are, not how much you weigh. Do you let others decide what your weight should be? Do you look in the magazines and on the TV, and accept what the media say is an ideal weight? Think about the cost of being that slim. Remember that many of the pictures are digitally enhanced and that the photos are taken by experts who know how to flatter. Do you let your parents decide what you are now? Did your parents show you love through food? Were you made to eat up all the food on your plate? Do you still behave in the same way around food, even though you?re a grown up and allowed so many other things to change? Think of all the things that have changed in your life since you were a child, and decide to write your own programme around food. Do you let your age determine what you weigh? Do you believe that ?all women? put weight on when they have babies, or when they reach the menopause? Do you believe that ?all men? get fatter as they get older? Weight gain as you get older is often because you do less. Get more exercise, take up a new sport ? there?s lots of other benefits than simply weight-management. Do you let science decide why you?re overweight? Do you believe that it?s ?genetic? and that there?s nothing you can do about it? If you believe that, then that is what will happen: you?ll come to look like the rest of your family. Remember that genes only set the framework of what you are ? the rest is up to you. Take back your power, and the control over what you weigh. Jane Thurnell-Read is a well respected writer on health and well-being. Visit her web site for more practical ideas on how you can <a href="http://healthandgoodness.com/weightshape/index.htm"> gain control over your weight and shape.</a> (more…)

If you need to lose weight
Today there’re lots of widely advertised methods to narrow your waist (and other problem places) on 2-3 cm almost in a moment. It’s quite another matter that you can also loose your fresh complexion, hair and even teeth. If you have a good intention not just to fit your plumped body to some “European” standard, but to improve your health, don’t put yourself on a fashionable diet or buy a miracle fat burning medicine. It’s really better for you to put on a couple of old jogging shoes, buy stylish sports suit and go to an autumn park.
When the weather is good, you can start from cycling, jogging along and, of course, walking �” the cheapest kind of sport, requiring minimum of your time and equipment. Remember: on average, walking 1 km for 10 minutes, you burn 6 kilocalories in a minute. How to determine an optimal distance for your level of training? It’s not too interesting to walk along a stadium, it’s not useful to walk along the highway, and it’s not economically to walk with a pedometer in a pocket. It’s better to listen to your organism: if you are gasping a little, but feel wonderful at the same time �” this means you’ve chosen a right speed, and now you should constantly increase time of intensive walking till 40-45 minutes every day. Calculate your usual route to work and back home and try to walk although a part of it. Results of investigations say that a course of such exercises during 30 minutes a day will be enough for a constant weight loss and vital energy improvement. And 45 minutes a day will completely guarantee you’ll become slender and healthy by the future spring.
If you cannot afford yourself to waste almost ah hour a day on walking, and have no opportunity to combine it with your business movements, then reduce time of exercises without reducing the loud. This means you should change walking to running. You shouldn’t be galloping, even if you’re full of energy in the beginning of training: your calories won’t burn quicker this way. Choose a steady speed that doesn’t put your breathe out and make your heart thumping since very beginning.

After you choose a well-known and even road, take a “modest” speed and… think of something pleasant. 15-20 minutes of running will fly away insensibly while you’re thinking. And this will be quite enough to set a “mechanism of growing thin” going. You know, our organism passes to an automatic mode of calories burning after 20 minutes of training, and then shakes out store-rooms of fat for another 20 minutes. Even if you have already taken shower and now are lying on the sofa.
When the weather is bad, start exercising with dumb-bells at home or with trainer in a gym (for 25 minutes 3 times a week). Weight-lifting exercises drive fat away slowly, but truly, you’ll feel the result by the end of the first week already. If you’re training without coach, remember that you need light dumb-bells and loud on a trainer, but frequent (till 20-25) repetitions. And work with big loud and small quantity of repetitions (7-10) is necessary to build up muscles. Every month of weight-lifting exercises (even without running, walking and cardinal change of nutrition) you’ll loose a kilogram of fat that will be changed by muscle mass. Weight loss, probably, will be not so great, but your shapes will become more graceful and smarter, and the volumes of problem places �” smaller.

Undoubtedly, aerobics is of benefit when you exercise regularly. However, not every person, who has never done this before, will be able to start doing aerobics in a group. And you know, such exercises exactly bring appreciable use, while exercises alone before TV, as a rule, bring only perspiration. As, in spite of encouraging remarks of a couch, your motions are far from correct and don’t reach the purpose to load some certain groups of muscles.

If you’re still quite sure in your natural gracefulness, you can go in for aerobics successfully. And if you like dancing, replace training in gym by exercises in a dance club, equivalent in time and “perspiration”. Dancing is a wonderful method to make your heart and lungs work dynamically, fix your backbone and “squander” gravel in your kidneys. And, strangely enough, such active way of spending time not only burns your calories efficiently, but also distracts your appetite.

In general, make your life interesting, so that a tasty sandwich wouldn’t become your main pleasure for the day. Books, music, premieres of films, exhibitions �” afford you some pleasure by all available intellectual and secular means. Absence of depression and good mood are necessary factors for psychological tuning of your organism on an appropriate rhythm for you.

However, don’t be carried away by good scale reading gained in the result of simple dehydration. During and after walking, running, dancing or weight-lifting exercises quench your thirst with water (mineral in desired), you can also squeeze a lemon or orange in it.

Still, you shouldn’t think that your way of life and eating won’t “suffer” at all, if you sweat while running or dancing religiously. It’s worth to take control also of thoughtless absorption of buns and sweets during evening hours before TV. You’ll have to quit eating ice-cream, even if the label says it’s “dietetic”. Try to replace butter by vegetable oils. Cook meals using fruits, vegetables, legumes and cereals that are rich in cellulose. And… drink more often. In many cases, your “awaked” stomach hungers for drink, not food. Drink a couple of glasses of mineral water and wait for 5-10 minutes. Probably, thoughts of having an immediate snack will fly away from you and superfluous centimeters of limp fat �” from your waist.Yana Mikheeva is the creator of <a href="http://www.baby-health.net">Baby Health Directory</a> - Pregnancy, Birth, Parenting and Baby Care resources. Are you going to get pregnant? Visit our friendly resource and read information on pregnancy and parenting, painless childbirth, growth and development of a baby, baby health, safety, signs of pregnancy.
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Weight Loss Organizations
Losing and maintaining weight is a difficult and intimately personal struggle, but it is not one that anyone needs to go through alone. There are literally millions of people forging their own paths to their better selves, and together, they offer support, advice, and inspiration to one another. (more…)

Blood Test To Predict Risk of Heart Disease For Diabetics
Diabetes has long been regarded as a risk factor of heart disease. The specific relationship between the two was unclear although diabetes is known to double the risk of heart disease. As a result, many people living with diabetes have to monitor their health for well-known risk factors for heart disease, such as obesity, cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Despite the fact that the role of blood sugar levels in managing their risk of developing cardiovascular disease remains as a big unknown, diabetics are still advised to achieve a well-controlled level of blood sugar.
In 2004, researchers from United States revealed that a new blood test (at that time) can predict risk of developing heart disease for people with diabetes. (more…)

Think Thin
The following article presents the latest information on Dieting. If you have a particular interest in Dieting, then this informative article is required reading.See how much you can learn about Dieting when you take a little time to read a well researched article? Don’t miss out on the rest of this great information.Your struggle with weight might have begun while you were a child, as you attempted to find out just how many cookies you could eat at one sitting. Or it might have occurred shortly after you arrived on a college campus for the first time. Those late nights of studying might have led to late night binging sessions. Or you might have gained weight after the birth of your first child, and have been unable to shed the weight ever since. No matter what the cause, weight gain is a serious matter. It can affect your energy level, your stamina, and your overall health. Obesity has been linked to a number of diseases, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.Once you determine that you are overweight, you have to make a commitment to bring your weight under control. This can be a daunting venture. You have turned overeating into a habit, and reversing that habit can be difficult. In essence, you have taught yourself to “think like a fat person.” In order to reverse this trend, you need to learn to think like a thin person.What exactly does this mean? To begin with, it means that you must throw away your preconceived ideas about food and eating. Eating might have become a social event for you. As a result, you’ll need to learn to be sociable without food. This is similar to the struggle that alcoholics face when they must learn to socialize without beer or liquor. Just because this is hard lesson to learn doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Thinking like a thin person also means that you need to develop new coping strategies. You might be viewing food as your friend, the one you turn to when things are not going your way. You may even be eating in secret because you’re ashamed at how much you’re eating. You need to realize that your public persona needs to be the same as your private persona�”and your diet should match both.A number of thin people exercise without even noticing it. Activity has become a normal part of their day. The same thing needs to be true of you. You need to exercise as much as possible. It should ultimately become second nature for you. It should not be a chore�”it should be a fun part of your week. Take an inventory of your preferences. Whether you like tennis or bowling, badminton or running, choose the activity that best represents your style. Then exercise diligently�”preferably six times a week. This will speed up your metabolism so that you will burn fat more quickly. Also, you need to overcome any fear you have of exercising. As an overweight person, you might find exercise frustrating�”and you might fear what other people will think of you as they watch you exercising. You need to realize that chances are no one cares about your exercise routine. Don’t let fear get in the way of your progress.Thinking thin also means controlling portion sizes. This can be difficult, especially when eating out. However, the key to effective weight loss often lies in limiting your food intake, and that begins with portion control. You might try putting your dinner on a smaller plate in order to ensure that your portion sizes are not too large. You have to realize that thinking as a thin person does not happen overnight. You have had years to develop your thought patterns and changing them can be a challenge. The important thing to remember is to take one day at a time and keep in mind that your weight loss will not happen instantaneously. It will take months of hard work to reach your ideal weight. However, the good news is that once you get into the habit of thinking thin, it’s a trait you can carry with you for life. The difference between a fat person and a thin person is not just a matter of the body, but of the mind as well. Once you realize that, you will be well on your way to accomplishing your weight loss goals, both your immediate goals and your future goals.Take time to think about the points presented above. What you learn may help you overcome your hesitation to take action. <p>Author J. Brian Keith is a proud contributing author for
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Why Is Every One Calling Green Tea A Miracle ?
How do you fit a miracle in a cup?

Dating back 4,000 years, Chinese diet green tea has been long revered as a tasty drink that can ward off diseases and improve one’s well-being. Since its first recorded use during the period of Emperor Shen Nung, the bond between Chinese diet green tea and good health has not been severed. It’s been used as treatment for everything from headaches to depression. At present, various health benefits of green tea are constantly being reported and many scientists are now focusing their attention on the simple, yet elegantly profound beverage that is green tea.

Where It Comes From

Like all three of the major Asian teas in the market, green tea comes from the tree called Carmellia sinensis. Much of the health benefits of green tea diets owe to the steaming method of making it. As opposed to black and oolong tea which undergoes full oxidization, green tea diet is only gently steamed, preserving the natural antioxidants in its original form.

The antioxidants in green tea helps fight away free radicals. These free radicals are the major contributing factors to aging as well as the ensuing degeneration of cells as a result of it. Scientists have reason to believe that free radicals also play a role in various degenerative diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism, Alzheimer’s disease, and even cancer.

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A Drink Steeped With Tradition

According to tradition, Chinese diet green tea could cure anything from headaches, body aches, and pains to constipation and depression. Over the centuries, more health claims are made on account of Chinese diet green tea.
Chinese diet green tea is said to increase the blood flow throughout the body. Because Chinese diet green tea contains a little caffeine, ingesting this drink stimulates the heart and allows the blood to flow more freely through the blood vessels. For the same reason that Chinese diet green tea stimulates blood flow, it also stimulates mental clarity.

Chinese diet green tea detoxifies the body.

The presence of polyphenols, a naturally occurring antioxidant in Chinese diet green tea, the beverage is said to combat harmful free radicals and help keep the body free from diseases. In this regard, Chinese diet green tea helps maintain the overall well-being of the body. Antioxidants in Chinese diet green tea can boost immunity, preserve young-looking skin, and brighten the eyes.

Chinese diet green tea aids in digestion and banishes fatigue. Chinese diet green tea is also said to prolong the lifespan.

For many years, men of science remained skeptical about the health claims made by Chinese diet green tea enthusiasts. Their doubt was changed to a more positive reception when subsequent researchers proved the disease-preventing attributes of Chinese diet green tea and confirmed most of the health claims.

The Secret to Longevity’

That just might be. The role of Chinese green tea in promoting longevity has been investigated upon by many researchers. They found the premise of their study on observing that Japanese women who are greater-than-average Chinese diet green tea drinkers; have lower mortality rates compared to others. This led the researchers to believe that Chinese diet green tea has a protective factor against premature death.

The polyphenols found in Chinese diet green tea may be held accountable. With its high amount of polyphenols, Chinese green tea seems to have a stimulating effect on the immune system. Stronger immune system as a result of drinking Chinese diet green tea helps reduce risks of acquiring any illnesses.

HEALTH BENEFITS:

Fighting Cancer
There are many health benefits associated with having a green tea diet. One of these green tea diet benefits is preventing cancer. Certain substances present in green tea diets are said to help in destroying cancer cells without harming any neighboring tissues. This substance in green tea diets is called epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG.

In the 1994 edition of the Journal of National Cancer Institute, the results of an epidemiological study stated that one of the health benefits of drinking green tea is that it can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by up to 60%.
The University of Purdue has also recently concluded a research on how a certain compound present in green tea can stop cancer cells from growing.

A Healthy Drink to a Healthy Heart

Study after study has shown that drinking Chinese diet green tea and eating polyphenol-rich foods reduces the risk of any heart complications. Drinking Chinese diet green tea also helps strengthen the blood vessels that provide oxygen and valuable nutrients to the heart and brain. It has been shown that men who drink Chinese diet green tea have 75 percent less possibility of having a stroke than those who don’t drink Chinese diet green tea.

Chinese diet green tea helps lower total cholesterol levels and improve the ratio between LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol. Study shows that men who drink nine or more cups of Chinese diet green tea daily have lower cholesterol levels than those who drink fewer than two cups.

Lowering Down Cholesterol

Obesity has become one of the major health issues in our society today. In fact, more than half of the American population is overweight or obese. As a result, diet and weight loss plans have become increasingly popular. But not all diet plans work. And not all of them are necessarily risk-free. A safer alternative for people wanting to lose weight are green tea diets.

Green tea diets can be a potential cure to obesity. The catechin polyphenols present in green tea diets can delay the reaction of gastric and pancreatic lipases in the body. These enzymes are actually the ones responsible for converting calories in the body into fats. By delaying these enzymes, green tea diets can therefore stop fat from being stored and prevent obesity in people.

Green tea also has the ability to minimize cholesterol levels and improve the ratio between good (HDL) cholesterol and bad (LDL) cholesterol. The EGCG in green tea can stop blood from forming abnormal clots (thrombosis), a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes.

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Other Health Benefits

Green tea has always been known to have several health benefits, but who knew that it could contribute to weight loss as well’.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that green tea extract can increase metabolism and fat oxidation of the body. In theory, scientists believe that the weight loss benefits of green tea extracts are due to their caffeine content but the results of the study show otherwise as they discovered that green tea extracts have weight loss benefits beyond that of caffeine.

In their study, the researchers administered alone the same amount of caffeine as that in green tea extracts but found that it did not make any significant changes in the body’s overall energy expenditure. This led them to conclude that green tea extracts have ingredients in them that actively interact with each other, promoting increased metabolism and fat oxidation that lead to weight loss.

Further findings indicated that a certain compound found in green tea extracts might be the ingredient that causes weight loss. These green tea extract compounds, called Flavonoids, may alter the way the body uses norepinephrine, a hormone that monitors how calories are burned. When flavonoids interact with other green tea extract ingredients, more calories are burned thus contributing to weight loss.

Another element that actively contributes to the weight loss benefits of green tea extracts is the compound catechin polyphenols. These compounds also interact with other green tea extract ingredients in order to promote weight loss by fat burning and thermogenesis (a process of losing energy by daytime heat).

The great thing about the weight loss benefit of green tea extracts is that it does not have any adverse side-effects. Unlike other herbal products like ephedra and prescription drugs for obesity, green tea extract does not increase the speed of heart rates or raise blood pressure. Not only that, but it also appears that green tea diets may act as a mild appetite-suppressant because of the presence of caffeine.

Caffeine may be damaging for the body since an excess of it can cause heart palpitations, hypertension, and insomnia. However, because green tea diets contain only very low levels of caffeine, there is no danger of experiencing these side-effects.

In this regard, green tea extract is an effective and safer alternative to other weight loss products which may cause harm to the user.

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The study conducted by the University of Geneva on the weight loss benefit of green tea extract implicated that green tea extract can also help thyroid patients. According to dietitian Lynn Moss, M.S., R.D., green tea extract is a healthier choice for people with thyroid who may be too sensitive to stimulants. Green tea extract can promote weight loss by increasing metabolism without over stimulating the adrenal glands.

Green Tea and Weight Loss

Green tea is a great substitute for people who are on weight loss programs because it can help them lead a healthier lifestyle. For instance, instead of drinking coffee and cream which area high in calories, green tea weight loss programs can not only save you from taking in too much calories but also let you take in several energizing substances like polyphenols and flavonoids. Green tea also contains a small amount of caffeine, a key substance used in most weight loss programs because of its appetite-suppressant properties.

Other studies indicate that green tea in weight loss programs can help reduce fat by inhibiting the effects of insulin. Insulin is responsible for changing glucose into energy for the body to be stored into fat. By delaying insulin, green tea weight loss programs enable sugar to be sent directly to the muscles for instant use, thus preventing fats from being stored by the body.

The author, J FARRINGTON, has been writing articles for a number of years.

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