Thread: Fat-burning Tea

Found this from an article I pulled from men's health I think.

According to a recent study men burned more fat when they took s green tea supplement than when they took a caffeine pill or placebo. If you drink it iced, four glasses a day can burn more than a kilogram (3 pounds) a year because it takes 30 calories of body head to warm the tea to 37oc. As for honey, go easy; studies show that sweeter drinks may stimulate your appetite.

To prepare 3 litres(5 pints) of tea:
Bring 3 litres of water to the boil and then add 4 green tea bags. After a few minutes, stir in 2 tbsp of honey. Brew for an hour, remove the tea bags and chill. One glass of tea has 3 calories, 0 g protein, 1g carbohydrates, 0g fat and 0g fibre. It is nice served with fresh mint.

I've been drinking green tea with mint, cranberry and apple and pear from Twinings fro the past couple weeks.

On it's own it's horrible I think, really sharp, grassy taste. But flavoured it's actually quite nice. I am happy to drink 5 cups a day and genuinely fancy it as much as normal tea with milk now.

Not sure if it's helping me lose weight, but it's nice to think that every little helps.

Drinking tea with milk completely negates the antioxidant properties. All the polyphenols bind with calcium and aren't bioavailable. There's my tea input.

HerbaLife has a green tea concentrate that they market as a fat-burner and as an energy supplement. As a weight loss aid they recommend drinking two quarts per day, which I think would be about the same as shooting speed into your eyeballs because one 8oz glass keeps me here typing away for far too long.

What about Japanese orange tea ?

are you talking regular black tea that is flavoured with orange?

green tea, no sugar no milk, thats the way to do it.

taste like crap but after your 5th cup or so you get used to it and it becomes kind of enjoyable

JING is THE best place for tea. Not asda own brand green tea

Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy

are you talking regular black tea that is flavoured with orange?

Had a slew of Japanese mandarin Orange tea. Good stuff in the evening.

Now, tea can dehydrate you right? How much is too much? I drink a cup of green tea once a day to replace the habit of drinking 2 cups of coffee a day. I'm trying to cut back on caffeine. I am thinking of adding some different supplements to the mix. Has anyone tried silver colloids? I'm thinking of ordering some but I wanted to get some advice first.

Originally Posted by amiller

Now, tea can dehydrate you right? How much is too much? I drink a cup of green tea once a day to replace the habit of drinking 2 cups of coffee a day. I'm trying to cut back on caffeine.

Of course tea can't dehydrate you, it's just water! I drink about 6 to 8 cups of green tea a day. I switched from regular tea and only buy green now.

I'm not really a coffee drinker but two cups a day won't harm you. If the caffeine hit you got from drinking coffee was really that bad for you, a hard physical workout would kill you.

Just don't drink soft drinks like coke, lemonade, etc. They are bad for you. Green tea rules though.

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Just don't drink soft drinks like coke, lemonade, etc. They are bad for you. Green tea rules though.

And personally, home made cold green tea taste so much better than all of the above

You can manage the quantity/time you leave the tea in the pot and making a big quantity ain't really hard or long.

guys, really sorry to be the spoil sport here but this sounds a bit dodgey to me.
It doesn't sound like any acctual research was done onthe subject and judging by the looks of it around a kilo a year compared to a kilo every two to three weeks done with jogging reguleraly, sounds a bit expensive and redundent, unless you feel like preping for a fight around seven years in advance, then it's ok