Drink Green Tea to Trim Your Tummy

Green tea is natures little wonder herb.  Numerous studies have indicated that regular green tea drinkers may have lower chances of heart disease and lower chances of developing certain types of  cancer.  Many people also believe that green tea can help with weight loss.  Perhaps this is because the even levels of energy from the natural caffeine found in this drink can give you the extra zip you may need to get through your workout.  But now there is new research showing that green tea actually targets the hard to get rid of belly fat when added as a supplement to an exercise-induced weight loss program.

How does it blast belly fat and help to trim your tummy?
Scientist are not exactly sure, but believe that it increases the rate that fat is broken down in they body and that tummy fat is the first to go.

What’s the skinny?
Researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University as well as research centers in Florida and Japan conducted a study on 132 overweight adults for a period of 12 weeks.  All participants consumed a diet consistent in daily calories and performed 180 minutes a week of moderate/intense exercise.  Each participant drank a daily beverage containing caffeine, but one group was given 625 mg of catechins.  Catechins sounds like something I wouldn’t want to have, but it’s actually an antioxidant found in green tea.  The group who drank the green tea lost twice as much weight (4.4 lbs compared to just over 2 lbs) and more loss in abdominal fat.

Brew it to lose it!  About 7 cups a day is what you need to consume to get the same benefits as the participants in the study.