Get your thin waist line back with Wulong tea (Oolong tea.) Studies have shown that Wulong tea keep carbohydrates from changing to fat and promotes a loss in BMI.
Is drinking Wu long tea a fad diet or a serious weight loss aid?
For a while because Oprah was promoting its use, the green tea diet became a fad, but that does not diminish its real properties, which are helpful in weight loss.
Wu long tea which has a soft fruity taste, is produced by drying the tea plant with just the right pressure to obtain full flavor and aroma in a tea that is somewhere between a green tea and a black tea.
Here are the facts in a nutshell
Drinking Wu long tea can help you in you weight loss efforts.
Asian countries like China and Japan, where most people drink a lot of green tea have a much lower incidence of obesity than do western countries.
Chinese wisdom and medicine has long accepted the fact that drinking Oolong tea “makes you thin.”
There is real scientific evidence that Oolong tea helps people lose weight because it
- increases metabolism
- burns fat through lipolysis
- blocks dietary fat absorption
- Drinking Oolong tea reduces cholesterol
- Wulong tea is safe
- Oolong tea will not suppress your appetite
Interestingly, due to its particular mode of fabrication, Oolong tea contains less tein than black tea and a little bit more than green tea, it is also less fermented than black tea.
Leaves are first hand picked to keep them as pristine as possible, then dried as soon as they are harvested and placed in bamboo baskets where they are stirred gently regularly. They never are crushed, nor broken in order to preserve the essential oils that give the Oolong tea its characteristic taste. After the drying process, the leaves are heated following a method that will stop the fermentation.
Wu-long tea assists in losing weight, and reduction in BMI, it also cleanse and detoxes the body. Drinking a cup of Wulong tea before every meal, will help you shed the pounds. It is not however a magic formula that will allow you to shed pounds effortlessly.
Studies have shown that the saturation of polyphenols is higher in Wu long tea than in other types of tea, and that this higher intake in polyphenols increases metabolic functions in the body. In the studies on metabolism it was found that the energy expenditure of people who drank the tea, increased by 10% for a period of two hours after consumption of the tea.
Wu long tea also helps to suppress lipid metabolism which in turns prevent the metabolization of fatty substances, thus preventing weight gain. Several Japanese studies, some of short duration, others as long as a five year period, all have established that a diet including Oolong tea is beneficial as a weight reduction aid, for obesity or excess weight that is diet induced.
If you intend on losing weight you will benefit from drinking Wulong tea every day, but you must also make a commitment to change some lifestyle habits, and eat foods that are healthy, as well as follow an exercise routine. Wulong tea can help you in the new healthy lifestyle but it cannot do it all alone.
Certainly the weight loss benefits of Wu long tea as well as its great taste would be sufficient to make the tea of choice of many, but to this we must add properties such as reducing cancer risks, hypertension problems, and its many antioxidants also gives it anti aging qualities.
