Recharge with Green Tea- Healthy Living
Drinking green tea offers the combined benefits of caffeine and catechins, substances shown to rev up the metabolism for a couple of hours. Several studies show that green tea can boost metabolism and help people burn about 3-4% more calories each day.
Green tea
helps convert some of the fat stored in your body into free fatty acids which may increase fat burning. As it is low in calories, drinking green tea may be good for both weight loss and weight maintenance.
It’s thought that metabolism-boosting properties may help prevent the dreaded weight loss plateau that occurs due to a decrease in metabolism. The main antioxidant in tea, EGCG, can help inhibit and enzyme that breaks down the hormone norepinephrine which firther helps in breaking more fat cells.
One can also opt for green coffee. Chlorogenic acid [resend in green coffee can reduce body weight, reduce fat absorbed from the diet, reduce fat stored in the liver and improve the function of fat burning hormone adiponectin.