Does Green Tea Really Help You Lose Weight?
There is really no dispute that green tea, as well as other types of natural teas, are extremely healthy for the human body. They contain multiple different TYPES of antioxidants, and the tea itself is completely free of calories.
It has also been hailed as an excellent and healthier alternative to America’s favorite energy drink – coffee. However, you still should really try to drink green tea only if it is organic, as, just like coffee beans, tea leaves contain pesticides and other chemicals if they are not certified organic – making your hot drink into a steaming cup of chemicals!
The debate about whether green tea can also help the body with weiht loss has raged for a while. Some said that green tea, while healthy, really didn’t improve odds of weight loss much when taken for weight loss specifically. Others claimed that green tea was excellent for weight loss, helping to spur weight loss and speed fat loss.
Apparently there is now some more definitive proof that green tea is, in fact as useful tool for those who want to lose weight. A compound that is found in green tea called Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) has shown to be effective at slowing weight gain in mice when tested.
Another interesting point of the study was that the mice that took green tea every day and started off obese showed fecal evidence of less bodily fat absorption. This strongly suggests that some how green tea consumptions helps our bodies to limit the amount of dietary fat that we absorb (which of course leads to weight gain and fat storage).
The mice that took the green tea every day appeared to gain weight about 45% slower than the mice that did not have the green tea. That’s quite a nice difference! Think I might have to add green tea into my diet again!
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The Juicing Diet
Consuming more fruits and vegetables is definitely beneficial to your overall health. Most of us don’t eat enough of this food group proportionately to the rest of our diet. These two facts are well established and well publicized in many health articles.
Fruit and vegetable smoothies increase our intake of this food group in a quick and palatable manner and that is a wonderful thing. Juicing your fruits and vegetables, according to television and internet advertisements, makes the body better absorb larger amounts of the nutrients.
They state that you will get more beneficial enzymes, better immune boosting, more antioxidants and even boost your metabolism by juicing your fruits and vegetables.
Smoothies and juices made from fresh fruits and vegetables are certainly a healthy drink. The juicer enthusiasts state that juices are healthier than the solid form of these foods. According to a newspaper article written by Michael Rozein, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D., juicing your fruits and vegetables actually reduces the fiber of these foods and boosts the sugar content.
The doctors’ article states that juicing traps the pulpy fiber that is so beneficial to us when the juice is extracted. They recommend just eating your fruits and vegetables whole, as a solid food.
The sugar content of these healthy fruits and vegetables is increased by the juicing process, according to their article. This would be a concern for anyone on a carbohydrate restricted diet for weight loss. More importantly, for a diabetic, who has to really modify their sugar intake or they will have serious health consequences, juicing their fruits and vegetables is not the way to eat them.
This doctors’ article refutes the claim that juicing fruits and vegetables gives them any special powers to absorb more readily in your digestive system or boosts their nutritional value in any way.
They recommend enjoying a good smoothie in moderation. For the majority of the time, they recommend eating these same foods whole to get the optimal benefit for your health. This way, you get all the fiber and the filling nature of the entire fruit itself, without the heavy calories that can sometimes come with smoothies.
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