Chinese green tea for slimming: what are the benefits and risks?

According to the research, the frequent consumption of chinese green tea helps to clear blood vessels, increase their elasticity, prevent premature aging and resist fatty liver. It also contributes to the removal of salts from the body, reduces weight, normalizes blood pressure.

What benefits gives us green tea drinking? Green tea has nice and unusual for the European taste, it is good thirst quencher. It posesses a lot of medicinal properties, it is rich in antioxidants, minerals and helps to be young, slim and active. Green tea contains iodine, potassium, copper, vitamins C, B1, B2, PP, K, which strengthen the walls of blood vessels and have a strong antibacterial effect.

Drinking green tea is a way of correction the weight, which is due to the activation of metabolism in the body and to get rid of excess accumulation of toxins, heavy metals, various kinds of intestinal toxins. Tea activates removing them from the body and processing them by the liver. Green tea has another great feature for losing weight – it mildly suppresses appetite.

Chinese green tea has almost no calories, it reduces the weight gently and smoothly due to the activation costs and irrepressible appetite suppression. And green tea soothes the nerves, lowers blood pressure and normalizes the functioning of the heart, has a stimulating effect on the immune system and improves overall mood and feeling.

Green tea for weight loss: where is the myth, and where is the reality?

Green tea for the weight loss was drunk even during the reign of the first Chinese emperors. Of course, we are not talking about the use of only the tea (as many believe) with complete renunciation of food – such mono-diet to lose weight rather than help, can get you to a hospital bed.

An illustrative example – among the Japanese or Chinese who drink green tea, fat man must be sought in the afternoon with fire. How green tea helps to lose weight?

We are talking about the replacement by the time all the other drinks that you are accustomed to use, and drink green tea without sugar. That is the way to achieve the weight loss: an average of about 5 kg for 3-4 weeks. Perhaps not as much as you would like, but note – your diet at the same time does not change!

To make green tea help to lose weight  better, remember a few rules:

• The tea should be drunk without sugar at all. Even without the sweetener, which is based on aspartame, it is known as a very dangerous chemical.
• To make the drink taste, you can add a piece of lemon to the cup of green tea, a slice of lemon or mint or some dried fruit.
• To enhance the effect, you can add to the tea a bit of cinnamon or powdered ginger. This will help to reduce caloric intake.

• If you consume cold green tea, your body will expend more energy to heat a drink. On average, then, to raise the temperature of one cup of tea, the body spends about 50 calories.
• Drink green tea instead of the majority of drinks during the day. It tones better than coffee, it is a good thirst quencher, because has no calories, and usually it does not provoke allergies. Refrain from alcohol consumption and, at the same time do not forget to drink at least a liter of water.
• During the day drink at least 4 cups of tea, most – during the daylight hours. Do not drink tea at night, because you can wake up in the morning with bags under your eyes. If the evening you are feeling very thirsty, it is better to eat a cucumber or an apple.
• Do not buy the cheapest tea, it may be of poor quality, and instead of losing weight, it can only hurt your body.

Some tips about right way of consuming chinese green tea

To make the green tea have a maximum fat burning effect, it is necessary to brew it correctly. This is best done in a porcelain dish, in any case do not use plastic. Green tea can not be poured with boiling water so it loses all its useful properties, and it deteriorats its taste. Pour the tea with hot water (80 degrees), and cover with the plate. Use leaf tea, not in bags, so you can avoid possible forgeries. Tea can be drunk both warm and cold.

If you want to try fasting days on green tea, it is advisable to consult a gastroenterologist, because such a diet is not allowed to people with ulcers or gastritis. What is the essence of fasting days with the green tea: for three days, drink 6 cups of tea, that is one cup every two hours. There can be dried fruit and a little rice. All the rest – for three days is under the ban. Such rapid diet helps lose 2 to 5 kg. A successful weight loss!