Weight loss: Green tea extract can help in losing weight

During Christmas time, people tend to indulge, with weight loss becoming a New Year’s resolution. While diet and exercise play a big part in weight loss, supplements can also help boost the process, and a new report reveals a certain kind of tea extract can help.

Over this festive season, people everywhere are indulging in rich meals more than usual in the spirit of celebrating that come the new year, people make a resolution to lose weight, or at least maintain their weight throughout the rest of the year or for the first several months. Diet plays a very big part in losing weight, with exercise helping it along. Supplements are also known to help losing weight along as well, and Express reports that green tea extract can be a good supplement for weight loss.

Green tea is famously known for aiding in weight loss among those who want to lose weight and those who want to maintain their weight. Many weight loss products have green tea extract as one of the ingredients or active ingredients. But green tea extract, its very concentrated form, makes a good weight loss supplement. One capsule of this extract contains all the antioxidants and other active ingredients that are good for the body as a single cup of green tea.

This is because of the catechins found in green tea along with a caffeine content commonly found in all types of teas, when combined, aid in weight loss. Catechins and caffeine promote weight loss by regulating the hormones responsible for thermogenesis, or the process of burning calories to digest food and produce heat.

But green tea extract is not the only kind of supplement that can help in weight loss. Healthline reveals the other kinds of tea, regardless of whether they are concentrated or not, that can help in weight loss. Puerh tea or Chinese black tea has also been known to help in weight loss and some animal studies have shown that it may also help lower blood sugar levels.

Black tea is another incredibly popular type of tea, and also has weight loss properties. This is due to the high flavone content, which is a pigment found in plants and has antioxidant properties. Other kinds of tea that have shown to help in weight loss are oolong tea, white tea, and herbal tea.