10 Interesting Trivia Regarding Green Tea

Hey there! Here I present to you some of the interesting trivia that we have regarding our favorite plant, Green Tea!

Though it is now common knowledge to many, I would still like to reiterate this first trivia as an obligatory introduction:

Trivia #1: Drinking Green Tea Helps You Lose Weight

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If you are a fan of losing weight the natural way, then, green tea might just be your long-lost best friend!

Green tea has been known to carry medical and health benefits. It cures wounds, provides immune system boost, etc., to those who drink it but who knew that it also burns belly fat?

Green tea is not just a hot beverage made from tea leaves. The actual leaves dissolved into the water that helps create flavour carry important biomolecules with them that helps in various mechanics of the human body.

One of these substances found in the tea is caffeine. A cup of green tea has around 24-40mg of caffeine. Although much lesser than coffee, it provides a mild effect. And studies have shown that caffeine is an effective fat-burner stimulant. Aside from that, it also boosts and improves the performance of a person when it comes to exercising, further amplifying it’s effect as a natural way of losing weight.

But the real deal is not about the substance caffeine which is found in green tea. In that small cup, undetectable by the naked human eye, are small biomolecules than when ingested into the body and enter the bloodstream, works it magic to make the human body healthier and improve it’s bodily functions.

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A huge majority of those biomolecules that are loaded into green tea are called antioxidants, specifically called catechins. The most important of these catechins are a substance called EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate), which helps boost the metabolism of the human body.

And what does metabolism have to do with weight loss? Well, the bottom line that there is, is that the faster your metabolism is, the faster your body’s ability to burn fat is. Therefore, having an enhances metabolism processes greatly helps with weight loss.

Keep in mind that these effects can both be achieved by drinking green tea as a beverage and taking green tea extract as supplements. Of course, coupled with green tea, regular exercise and a healthy diet will also greatly improve your progress with weight loss.

Good luck on your weight loss journey! 

P.S. Here is Trivia number 2! click here: http://greenteaphilippines.blogspot.com/p/cont-10-interesting-trivia-regarding.html

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