Green Tea Helps Burn Fat in Your Body

Drinking green tea before exercise could help you burn more fat.

The University of Birmingham’s School of Sport and Exercise Sciences conducted a study on healthy young males. First they would take Green Tea Extract (GTE) or a placebo. Then they performed cycling trials. The average fat oxidation rates were higher and how much the fat oxidation provided to the total energy used was higher as well in the GTE group.

Fat oxidation is the rate at which you will find fat being broken down in your body during moderate exercises. This fat is then moved to the muscles where it is used as fuel during the exercise which is why the fat oxidation provided a greater chunk of the total energy used in the study. If I read the article correctly, then green tea, by inhibiting an enzyme, can help fat keep moving to your muscles to be used.

The amount of GTE in this study was equal to about 3 1/2 cups of green tea.

Time, and more studies, will tell if the green tea effect will help people with health problems such as obesity and diabetes through it’s ability to increase fat oxidation. The studies will also help determine the correct amount of green tea or green tea extract needed.

Source: http://www.huliq.com/52294/couple-cups-green-tea-exercise-could-help-burn-fat