Do The Health Benefits of Green Tea Include Weight Loss?

Green tea is good for you, there’s no doubt about that. It contains antioxidants, Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), fluoride and many vitamins. It also has caffeine, many people’s drug of choice. One of the many benefits of green tea is said to be weight loss.

In a short answer, yes it will. Green tea can actually seed up our metabolism causing us to burn more calories then we normally would. Any sustained calorie loss will make a person loose weight.

Three to five cups a day for a year will amount to 8 pounds lost. That’s not to much, but that’s just drinking green tea without any changes in exercise or diet. Many of us want that miracle solution that’s going to make us loose weight while flipping channels or sitting at our desk. The truth is, when it comes to weight loss, nothing works better than good eating habits and exercises, and some of the chemicals in green tea can help us exercise longer by increasing our endurance and giving us energy. The longer someone is able to exercise, the more calories they will burn. This can lead to quite a bit of weight loss.

If the weight loss angle is not enough to make you drink more tea, then consider the other health benefits of drinking green tea.

• EGCG in green tea can help protect against certain diseases as well as ultraviolet light (sunburn).
• Green tea contains fluoride which can help prevent gum disease.
• Green tea contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C and Vitamin K.
• Green tea contains caffeine.