Tea Time Can Mean Weight Loss If You Drink The Right Tea

Tea Drinkers Lose Weight. Yes we have known for a while that green tea is effective in weight control, both in the drinking and/or green tea supplements. Now something new! Researchers have found that simply drinking a glass of tea with a meal increases the amount of fat excreted in bowel movements and reduces the absorption of cholesterol through the digestive tract. The 12 subjects in one study were divided into two groups. The first group received about 24 ounces of oolong tea with each of three meals a day, then 19 grams of fat twice a day, about half an hour after lunch and dinner. The second group received a placebo drink instead of the tea, but still ate the fat. Each group continued on this regimen for ten days, then after a seven-day washout period the two groups were reversed.

Blood samples were acquired from each patient four times during the trial, and BM samples were taken on the last three days of each trial period. Those drinking the tea eliminated about twice as much fat as those on the placebo, and about 50 percent more cholesterol. Much of the fat you eat passes through the stomach pretty much unchanged. Once it gets to the intestines, some of it is slowly absorbed through the intestinal wall. The researchers didn’t speculate on tea’s mechanism of action, but I’d bet it has something to do with changing the rate of fat absorption in the digestive tract.

Oolong tea is created using the same oxidation process that turns green tea into black, but the process isn’t allowed to continue as long. The resulting drink has some of the characteristics of both green and black teas with moderately high levels of polyphenol antioxidants, but a more full-bodied taste.