Green tea & low caffeine life style is the key to successful weight loss and maintenance

Green Tea helps you lose weight and maintain the weight.

Green tea antioxidants are known as "fat burners." Green tea boosts metabolism and speeds up the burning of body fat.

Now how about after you lose some weight? Does green tea help to maintain the loss you made? Here's the great news for millions of people watching their weight: "Green tea intake with habitual low caffeine intake promotes weight loss and reduces the risk of weight regain," according to a study, "Caffeine and green tea effects on body weight"** published in "Obesity Research Vol. 13 No. 7 July 2005."

In this study, the subjects were divided into habitually low caffeine consumers (<300 mg/day) and habitually high caffeine consumers (>300 mg/day). Each group was again divided to 2 groups, one was given green tea supplementation, the other was given placebo. Each group was observed for their weight loss and weight maintenance over the time.

No more 'rebound' effect with green tea and low caffeine life style!

The result of the study shows:
"During the weight maintenance period (after successful weight loss), the percentage of body weight regained was significantly smaller in the low caffeine intake group that received green tea, and in fact, that group continued to lose weight, compared with the low caffeine group receiving placebo. This was also the case when the low caffeine intake group that received green tea was compared with the high caffeine group receiving green tea. In fact, in the former group, body weight was still reduced, whereas in the latter groups, regain took place."

"In the low caffeine intake group who consumed green tea, body weight maintenance after body weight loss was considerably greater. Weight loss was prolonged in the low caffeine intake group that received green tea, whereas in the placebo group, body weight regain over time was significant. Also, in the successful weight maintenance group, FFM (fat-free mass) was still increased during weight maintenance; body weight loss was loss of only FM (fat mass), caused by a higher fat oxidation."

"It is remarkable that the high caffeine intake group receiving green tea did not show greater body weight maintenance after body weight loss than the high caffeine intake group that received placebo. Here the sensitivity to caffeine may be lost, perhaps because of saturation of the enzyme system. The high caffeine intake group had become nonresponders to green tea, probably because of a ceiling effect. Also, the very low leptin concentrations may have caused a homeostatic restoration of body weight regain."
 

Only 5% weight loss will do!

Successful weight loss and weight maintenance are the main issue of most of the health problems recognized in developed countries. The mechanism of successful weight loss is simply put, "increase physical activity and decrease energy intake." Even modest weight loss, 5% to 10% of the initial body weight, leads to beneficial health effects.*

Stick to 3 simple rules to achieve successful weight loss!

So why don't you make "modest weight loss" your realistic goal this year?  Adopt these 3 simple rules:

1. Do not drink sports drink or bottled green tea after your exercise.  They will cancel the benefits you gained from exercise.  Drink Edible Green® to boost metabolism before and after exercise.  Edible Green® is sencha powder, which offers you the highest amount of antioxidants among all the types of green tea.

2. Eat balanced meals in modest portion (Use one size smaller plate might do the trick for you) and drink lots of Edible Green® and less coffee (drink Unforgettable™ gluten free coffee alternative; it's completely caffeine free!).

3. Focus on "feeling better" rather than on the scale, and stick to your plan for at least 3 months

Switch from caffeinated coffee to "Unforgettable™ gluten free coffee alternative" and drink "Edible Green® ground green tea, Sencha green tea powder"!

Unforgettable™ is the most delicious coffee substitute, made from 100% brown rice. While brown rice drink contains no caffine, no gluten, it offers high fiber, hard to get trace minerals, polyphenol antioxidants, and mild detox effect. It is the number one coffee substitute for macrobiotists in Japan.

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Edible Green® is Japanese Sencha green tea powder, so it offers you naturally more antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins than steeped tea. Its soothing, deep flavor has won the hearts of green tea drinkers. Millions of cups of Edible Green® have been enjoyed since it became available to American green tea fans.

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sources:  *Goldstein DJ "Beneficial effects of modest weight loss." Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1992; 16:397-415
Wing RR, Jeffery RW, Burton LR, Thorson C, Kuller LH, Folsom AR. "Change in waist-hip ratio with weight loss and its association with change in cardiovascular risk factors." Am J Clin Nutr. 1992; 55:1086-92
Gaal LF van, Wauters MA, de Leeuw IH. "The beneficial effects of modest weight loss on cardiovascular risk factors." Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1997; 21 (Suppl 1):S5-S9.
**Margriet S. Westerterp-Plantenga, Manuela P.G.M. Lejeune, and Eva M. R. Kovacs "Body weight loss and weight maintenance in relation