Green Tea Weight Loss, Does It Work?


by Mercy Maranga - Date: 2009-04-20 - Word Count: 264 Share This!

Whether using green tea for weight loss or any other method, in order to lose one pound of fat
over the period of a week, you must maintain a calorie deficit of 3500 below your normal
"set point".That "set point" being the amount of calories consumed in one's diet where a person
neither loses nor gains fat. This calorie deficit can come through the modification of diet,
through exercise, or through a combination of both. In the case of a pound per week weight loss,
that works out to a needed calorie deficit of 500 calories per day.

Research by Japanese and other researchers suggest that if the average person were to drink five
cups of green tea a day, they would burn an extra 70 to 80 extra calories through an effect known
as thermogenesis - the process of heat production in organisms. While much of the thermogenesis
effect in green tea is derived from caffeine, studies also suggest that thermogenesis in green
tea occurs to some degree beyond its caffeine content.

According to the research, if a person were to change nothing outside of adding five cups of green
tea to their diet per day, then over the course of 43 days one could expect to lose 1 pound. Over
the period of one year, one could expect a loss of about 8 pounds. There is some correlation
between green tea and weight loss, unfortunately it's not on the level many would have you believe.

Clearly, drinking green tea alone is not going to be satisfactory for significant weight loss.
Still, green tea can still be quite useful as a weight loss aid.

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