If you want to boost your metabolism, watch your weight drop away, and improve your health & wellbeing – the answer might be easier than you think. One simple, painless, and inexpensive change to your lifestyle could be transformative: Just try replacing your sugary soft drink habit with tea and see what happens.
In the East they have been drinking varieties of tea for thousands of years; we are late to the party and are only now waking up to its many benefits. Tea drinking has been associated with lower rates of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes thanks to the antioxidants known as flavonoids that it contains. Tea also helps with weight loss, improved cholesterol levels, and mental agility. What’s not to like?
Given the backdrop of deteriorating health in the US and many Western countries, we would do well to look East for some wisdom. We are getting plenty of things wrong in terms of lifestyle choices – primarily a poor diet and lack of exercise. This is contributing to the obesity epidemic and countless other health problems.
Your Beverage Can Be Causing Weight Gain
Consumption of sugary sodas and fruit juices is a particular issue with many Americans apparently addicted to soda. A staggering 56% of young adults in the US admit to drinking soda daily and these drinks are the largest source of sugar consumption among children and adolescents. Two in three adults and one in three children in America are now classified as overweight or obese with sodas contributing in a major way to this weight epidemic.
How to Be Effortlessly Slim
What we need to do is exercise more, eat better and consider taking supplements to ensure optimum nutrition. Drinking tea is an extremely easy way to make a positive change and take a step towards a slimmer, healthier you. Whether you choose to drink black, green, or white tea; you’ll be benefiting from the antioxidant properties of the flavonoids found in tea. These antioxidants can cause temporary thermogenesis: A metabolic process that speeds up the metabolism and increases fat burning. (Supplements that accelerate this process are available.)
Purists may choose to research the culture and history of Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies and – for the full zen experience – even indulge in some elegant teaware. But even those who keep things simple and brew up in a standard mug will reap the benefits. It’s as easy as one, two, TEA.
This was the exact reason that I started T Ching in 2006 – to help steer people away from high sugar beverages and fruit juices toward TEA. I had read at that time that the current children being born were the first who were expected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Prior generations saw an increase in life expectancy of about 5-10 years from their parents. Not so any more. People need to stop drinking sodas and only consume whole fruit drinks – with the pulp included to avoid the negative affects of fruit. Eating the whole fruit, in a smoothie, for example, does not cause weight gain. Juices alone do. This message needs to get out to the general public. Adding tea, the healthiest beverage on the planet, is an excellent way to improve ones general health.
I totally agree drinking tea is an easy way to make a positive change and to slim down quick. I’ve been drinking green tea for years now and it has helped, I recently started with a new tea that taste great.