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It can be a challenge to burn fat and lose weight and even regular workouts may fail to get you the fast results you want. Maintaining a healthy diet filled with whole foods is the key to any weight loss program, but if there’s a natural fat-burning tea you can sip — that’s delicious and just happens to have proven weight loss benefits — why not, right?
Try this one fat-burning tea you should have every morning to lose weight fast.
Oolong Tea
If you’re like us, you’re up to your ears in information about the amazing fat-burning properties of green tea. As much as we love a cup of hot or cold green tea, when the urge comes to try something new, oolong tea is the perfect alternative and one that boasts plenty of its own weight loss benefits.
Oolong Tea Benefits
Oolong tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. It comes in green and black tea varieties and has a number of minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants. One cup of brewed oolong tea boasts manganese, potassium, magnesium, niacin, and 36 mg of caffeine. Its free radical destroying antioxidants include theaflavins and EGCG, which you may recognize as the same antioxidants found in abundance in green tea.
Oolong tea has been found to lower blood sugar levels and blood pressure, as well as your risk of getting Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Its health benefits are well documented, but its fat burning and weight loss benefits are what makes it stand out as a rival (or companion, maybe?) to green tea.
A study published in the Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine found that when oolong tea was given to 102 overweight or obese study participants on a daily basis, the vast majority lost weight. In fact, 70 percent of severely obese and 66 percent of overweight participants lost weight, while 12 percent experienced a reduction in belly fat.
The study’s conclusion was that regular consumption of oolong tea improved lipid metabolism and can result in weight loss and prevent obesity.
Kou Tea Slimming Tea ($5)
You don’t have to trade in your green tea for oolong tea — this slimming tea blends four varieties of fat-burning teas together: oolong, green, white, and pu-erh. Each cup has less than 50 mg of caffeine and is the perfect post-breakfast beverage to keep you energized and help suppress your appetite.
