There isn’t a lot you can drink when you’re on the HCG protocol. Dieters are limited to coffee, tea, and drinks flavored with Stevia. However, the health benefits of these drinks are becoming more and more apparent. It turns out drinking green tea can actually help you when you’re slimming down in more ways than just giving you a little variety.
What Makes Green Tea Different?
Instead of other tea leaves, which can be heavily processed before they can be used to steep tea, green tea is simply green tea leaves that are steamed. This helps the tea leaves keep a healthy compound intact – epigallocatechin gallate – and keeps that compound able to deliver its health benefits. Even though the process of making green tea by steaming leaves is fairly consistent among the different types of green tea, there are several varieties of green tea that vary based on where they originate.
What Are the Health Benefits of Green Tea?
Green tea has long been regarded as a natural health booster, and new research is supporting some of the claims traditional medicine has made for years. From decreasing stress to reducing cholesterol, there’s a wide variety of good things that can come from a daily cup of green tea. Here’s a list of benefits claimed by green tea supporters:
- Helping impaired or damaged immune system function
- Increasing heart health and reducing risk of cardiovascular problems
- Helping balance the body’s levels of good and bad cholesterol while reducing cholesterol overall
- Preventing tooth decay
- Reducing cancer risk for many types of cancers
As you can see, even if you’re not trying to lose weight, green tea has many benefits. However, this is a site dedicated to weight loss! You’re probably wondering how green tea can help you slim down.
How Does Green Tea Affect Weight Loss?
While everyone’s results will vary a bit, some studies have shown green tea has a positive affect on weight loss in addition to overall health. Green tea has been shown to boost metabolism and affect the ability of our body to burn fat. With an increase of calories consumed during the day through an increased metabolism and more fat burned due to greater fat oxidation, combining green tea with the HCG diet is a perfect way to give your diet a little more help.
Is Green Tea Right for Me?
Most people can drink green tea without any problems. However, a few individuals may have a health condition where drinking green tea isn’t the optimal choice. The good news is that if your health allows you to try the HCG Diet, you’ll generally have no problem with green tea unless you’re sensitive to caffeine.
If you want to start seeing and feeling the health benefits of green tea, you can pick it up at your local grocery store and steep it at home.
