Is Green Tea a Fat burner

Green Tea is much of a buzzword in the world of health & fitness and as beverage or in supplemental form is widely used these days. The tea has been hailed from time-to-time as a health boosting elixir that can keep you fit & fine for long by keeping deadly diseases like heart attacks and cancers at bay.

Also, green tea enjoys much exposure in the weight loss industry and has been touted by celebrities and renowned dietitians for its amazing fat burning power. There are many tales of successful weight loss through Green Tea doing the rounds in the industry. Green Tea is often considered by weight watchers as the best natural weight loss solution for obesity…But is Green Tea really a fat burner? How true are the claims made? To get answers to these questions, read on…

Well, Green Tea does help in weight loss. Here are the various ways in which Green Tea supports weight loss:

1     Water-soluble bioactive components present in Green Tea can speed up your body’s metabolic rate and stimulate the process of fat burning or fat combustion. Metabolism is an important biological process that goes on within our body converting nutrients from foods we consume into energy. If the energy made is much more than what we use, the unused energy is stored in our body as fat. But when the metabolic rate is high, you’ll use more energy than usual and thus will have little left to be converted to fat. By expediting metabolism, Green Tea can help in increased fat burning and the process through which it occurs is referred to as ‘lipolysis’.

2     Green Tea contains a special kind of antioxidant; EGCG. EGCG boosts the levels of norepinephrine hormone in the body. This hormone makes the nervous system send signals for fat breakdown to the fat cells in our body. As a result, fat burning is set in motion…

3     The caffeine content in green tea acts as a stimulant during workouts and maximizes workout performance as well as results. This supports your weight loss efforts and helps you burn more calories through weight loss workouts.

4     Furthermore, the caffeine as well as EGCG compound present in Green Tea can expedite resting metabolism rate to as per latest researches. Thus, you’ll burn fat even you aren’t exercising. In other words, Green Tea can make you burn nearly 4% extra calories each day compared to other forms of natural remedies for weight loss.

Drinking 3 cups of this Green brew on regular basis can help you achieve the desired weight loss results as per the research published in the Journal of Nutrition.  It is best to drink Green Tea in between 2 meals or half an hour prior to workouts.

No matter how beneficial is Green Tea for weight loss, you should not consider it as a quick fix for obesity. Green Tea cannot make you slim overnight and it results will be more evident only if you follow a healthy diet and healthy lifestyle pattern.