Different Kinds of Tea & Health Benefits

Different Kinds of Tea

Green, white and red teas contain antioxidants and have a number of health benefits like preventing degenerative conditions such as cancer and arthritis. For many of us, tea implies the regular black tea, but there are other varieties of tea.

The ones with the most benefits are the green, white and red varieties; the last two are lesser known varieties, while green tea is becoming increasingly popular. These varieties of tea have preventive and curative properties, due to the presence of antioxidants.

Foods That Burn Stomach Fat

Burn Your Stomach Fat

Foods That Burn Stomach Fat

Exercise, lifestyle choices and nutrition can help reduce stomach fat. Here are some foods that will help beat the bulge.

Eggs

Though eggs should be eaten in moderation, particularly in cases of high cholesterol, they are a power food and have many health benefits. They contain vitamin B12, which the body needs to metabolize or burn fat. Eggs also provide lean protein and increase energy for more activity and exercise to work the abdominal muscles and reduce fat.

Dairy Products

Calcium in dairy products helps to break down fat around the stomach and may even prevent it from forming. Try low fat milk and plenty of yogurt which also has probiotics for healthy digestion and to decrease bloating

Olive Oil

The right fats are healthy and help to reduce hunger. Olive oil and canola oil contain monounsaturated fats as well as omega-3 fatty acids. These help to lower cholesterol levels, prevent heart disease and they satisfy hunger cravings for carbohydrates which add to fat on the stomach.

Beans

Beans have low calories and high fiber and protein content. This helps to reduce weight around the waist and tone the body’s muscles. Add chickpeas, black, lima, kidney beans and all types of lentils to your weekly diet. To reduce gas and bloating after eating, soak beans in water for a few hours, discard water, then boil and discard water again before cooking is completed.

Vegetables

Vegetables are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants as well as fiber that reduce fat around the middle. Their high fiber content also causes feelings of fullness so overeating unhealthy food is avoided. Have a salad before your meal for best results.

Tea

Tea is rich in antioxidants, improves cardiovascular health and speeds up metabolism to burn more fat. Green tea and white tea are less processed and have higher levels of antioxidants. According to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1999;70:1040-5) tea-drinkers burn up to 266 more calories a day than those who do not drink tea. Be sure to use low-fat milk in chai lattes.

Oatmeal

Oatmeal contains the highest amount of protein of any grain. It also has more healthy soluble fiber than whole wheat, rice or corn. This provides energy and staves off hunger so that cravings for fatty snacks are avoided. Choose plain oats instead of the high sugar flavored variety and add fruit to keep stomach fat away.

Eating the right foods along with a regular fitness plan will help to reduce stomach flab and tone muscles.

5 Ways to Burn Your Fat

Burn Your Fat

Put Down the Heavy Weights

You don’t have to grunt and groan with heavy dumbbells to see results. A recent study from McMaster University found that lifting light weights (about 30% of maximum effort, or about 24 times until fatigue) was just as effective at building

Muscles as heaving heavier ones (up to 90% maximum load, or about 5 to 10 reps before fatigue), as long as the target muscle group was fully fatigued by the final rep.

Go Hard or Go Home

The more active you are, the more likely you are to push yourself during a workout. Researchers from New Zealand found that women who exercised regularly were more likely on their own to work at a heart rate near or above VT1 than their more sedentary counterparts.

Keep Your Feet on the Ground

When it comes to the amount of fat you’ll burn during a workout, you’ll torch more of it by going for a run than by hopping on a bike, according to a British study from the University of Birmingham.

Make Like a Hare

Slow and steady doesn’t always win the race for weight loss. New research shows that women who lost at least 1 1/2 pounds a week were more successful at achieving long-term significant weight loss than those who lost 1/2 pound or less a week. The fast-weight losers were 5 times more likely to have lost at least 10% of their body weight at 18 months than those who took off the pounds more gradually.

Keep at It for a Healthy Belly

Exercise is key to keeping off dangerous belly fat. Subjects in a study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham who had lost an average of 24 pounds and then kept up their fitness routines of either strength training or cardio for 40 minutes twice a week for 1 year, regained no visceral fat, even if they put on a little weight. Those who had stopped exercising weren’t so lucky: They averaged about a 33% increase in visceral fat.