Tea is the most popular drink. They enjoy rich and poor, middle class and intellectuals, regardless of their country of origin, culture or language. It’s the taste, the sweet aroma and the scent that have made tea the world’s most popular beverage for decades.
Invented in China, tea has made its journey around the world, largely due to trade with the British East India Company, which has established colonies everywhere. After their demise, tea has become a profitable trade in most countries. Traditional beliefs hold that tea has several beneficial health effects. It has several medicinal properties. However, recent research has actually confirmed the medicinal properties of tea.
What makes this drink useful?
Tea contains high amounts of antioxidants like polyphenols and catechins, which are much more powerful than other antioxidants like vitamin C or vitamin E. They prevent free radicals from damaging our body through harmful oxidation reactions. Tea is an important medicine that helps prevent cancer, blockages in the arteries and heals damaged hearts.
One of the most important properties of tea is its ability to support weight loss.
What is obesity?
It is a disease recognized by the World Health Organization as a disease of epidemic proportions. Poor lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits, lack of physical activity and unnecessary stress are the main causes of increase in obesity among people.
Tea has several properties that help in weight loss. Several types of tea such as white tea, green tea, and oolong tea have weight-loss properties. Caffeine is contained in tea in small amounts. It has been proven that caffeine along with the catechins helps in weight loss by consuming the extra calories and burning fat. Green tea is the most beneficial tea. It helps with weight loss and its drive goes far beyond white tea. Weight reduction is possible by increasing the consumption of stored fats and calories and preventing excess calories from entering. Green tea has the property of boosting the body’s metabolism. A higher metabolic level increases calorie consumption. Also, it prevents excess calories from entering the body. Green tea affects the digestive system. It reduces the absorption of calories by the intestines. This removes the calories through excretion. Oolong tea, which is a color between green tea and white tea, also has similar weight-loss properties.
It has been shown that people who regularly drink 7-10 cups of tea daily have better health, fitter bodies and are slimmer. It is advisable to follow this routine to lose excess weight:
- Drink a cup of tea every morning to start the day. There would be no harm in drinking too much tea in the morning.
- Eat a proper and nutritious breakfast
- This will ensure that your body has the necessary supplements. You won’t feel hungry and this will keep you from overeating
- Eat slowly and enjoy the taste. Most of the time we overeat because we eat too fast and don’t like to eat. Eating slowly will help you know when you’ve had enough.
- Go to exercise regularly. This is important to lose weight. You can drink almost 10 cups of tea daily. Aside from the weight loss, you will benefit from it in many ways.
Thanks to Henry Wershar
