Drinking Tea May Help with the Battle of the Bulge

There is preliminary research that suggests that drinking tea may have positive effects on your body weight, fat accumulation, and insulin activity. I have spoken to quite a few people in the past couple of weeks and losing weight appears to be the number one New Year’s Resolution. What year hasn’t been in America?

Some of you have been calling the toll free numbers to diet programs so that you can look like one of your favorite stars that has lost 50 lbs eating prepared meals or have signed up for support groups that you join every year about this time. However, all weight loss professionals, psychologists, and therapists will tell you that making small life style changes can have big implications. There is no “big bang” theory for sustained weight loss. There is a common sense approach to living a healthier life and ultimately fighting the “Battle of the Bulge”.

Tea doesn’t have calories, unless you add sweetener and/or milk. So with some self control on how you prepare your tea can result in a healthy, great tasting weight loss drink. Consuming 250 or fewer calories from your drink consumption can result in losing one pound per week. That is if you are not compensating by eating more goodies.

Lot’s of people complain of having a slow metabolism as the reason they cannot lose weight and for some this is true. Tea increases your metabolism. Green tea has been shown to increase your metabolic rate so that you can burn 70 to 80 additional calories by drinking five cups of green tea per day. Over a five year period you could actually lose eight pounds by drinking green tea.  Add a 15 minute walk everyday and you can only imagine the results.

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