Weight loss tea takes dedication and usually a change to diet and exercise.
However, there are little tips and tricks that can aid dieters in the journey towards their weight loss goals, including drinking teas.
While medical experts advise staying clear of branded slimming teas that can often work as a laxative for a whole host of health issues, other natural teas have been found to have some health benefits.
What do scientific studies reveal about weight loss teas?
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Green tea
Green tea has long been considered a great tea for weight loss and a number of studies have shown a strong link between the tea and a slimmer waistline.
A green tea weight loss trial found that green tea had a big effect on weight loss of the patients in the study.
Moderately overweight people were given two drinks each a day.
For one group all were placebos, the other had one serving of green tea while the other had two.
Scientists who carried out the research, in Shanghai, China, found: “We observed a decrease in estimated intra-abdominal fat in the GT3 group,” or the group with two servings of green tea.
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Weight loss: Green tea, black tea, Oolong tea and puerh tea can all aid weight loss
Black Tea
Drinking black tea may help you lose weight, according to studies. Scientists claim the tea encourages a bacteria to grow in the gut, which helps with slimming.
Study co-author Dr Zhaoping Li, from the University of California Los Angeles, said the findings suggest that the health benefits of both green tea and black tea go beyond their antioxidant benefits.
Mice who were given green and black tea extracts and ate a normal diet lost the same amount of weight as mice on a low fat diet in one study.
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Weight loss: What do scientific studies reveal about weight loss teas?
Oolong Tea
This tea, which is half way between green and black tea can help with fat burning.
A study of the tea called “Beneficial effects of oolong tea consumption on diet-induced overweight and obese subjects” found that 70 per cent of 102 obese people who drank 8g of oolang a day lost over a kilogram.
Twenty-two per cent lost over three kilograms.
Researchers said: “Oolong tea could decrease body fat content and reduce body weight through improving lipid metabolism.
“Chronic consumption of oolong tea may prevent obesity.”
Puerh Tea
This is a tea that has been fermented. The tea was shown to help with weight loss in a study in which 70 men took the extract.
The men lost approximately a kilogram more than those taking a placebo.
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