How effective is green tea to lose weight?

This has been a question propped up be health experts investigating how beneficial green tea could be in helping obese people achieve weight loss easily. Most effective weight loss has been associated with increased body calorie expenditure. Exercises have the best results in such programs. However, obese people have been unable to take up exercising as their choice of weight loss formulas. Using this type tea has been famed as a possible slow weight loss formula. This context has been doubtful in terms of its capacity to effectively bring about weight loss.


Most herbal medicine experts have over the recent years given the green tea a clean bill of health in its effectiveness towards achieving weight loss. As such tea is instrumental in weight loss programs if used well. The guiding principles of how this tea contributes or leads to weight loss are through its sheer ability to increase body metabolism and oxidation of cholesterol in the body.

How does this tea become effective in weight loss? The context of metabolism has been inter-related with this type of tea. The context is explained by the taxonomic definitions of body calorie burning and this type of tea facilitating in extra calorie burning. What happens is that a green tea user can burn additional calories by increasing his tea consumption. Consuming about 5 cups of this tea every day results to the burning of an extra 80 calories. Burning calories is all about reducing the fats and body fat expenditure. As such increasing your tea consumption to a dietary level would result to an increased calorie burning hence gradual weight loss.

This is the argument of researchers though 80 calories is not sufficient to make up effective weight loss. However experts researching about how effective green tea consumption would be in weight loss suggest that, dietary consumption of this tea would lead to a pound loss weekly. The context further associates green tea consumption to increased metabolism.