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Obesity increases the risk of diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
For this reason, it is very important to prevent obesity in advance in order to have a healthy body.
In fact, drinking green tea is an effective way to prevent obesity.
In this article, I’m going to introduce the ingredients and how to drink green tea to prevent obesity.
The risk of obesity
Obesity increases the risk of the following diseases: high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, gout, and cholelithiasis.
They are all horrible diseases, but the causes of obesity are hereditary constitution, overeating and lack of exercise.
Although it is true that the “obesity gene” does exist, the ratio between environment and heredity is said to be “7: 3”.
In other words, there is a lot of potential to improve obesity through diet.
Green tea ingredients to prevent obesity
The catechins contained in green tea have the effect of suppressing obesity.
This is because catechins have a function to inhibit the production of “glucose” which is the cause of obesity.
For example, when obese men with a high BMI were asked to drink multiple green teas with different amounts of catechins, studies have shown that those who continued to drink the higher catechin green tea lost fat faster.
This means drinking green tea that is high in catechins can effectively prevent obesity.
It’s not just the catechins!
Catechins are effective in preventing obesity, but they do not have such a great effect on their own, and it is thought that the synergistic effect with caffeine improves the preventive effect.
Therefore, if you drink green tea to prevent obesity, be sure to choose a green tea that has caffeine in it.
How to drink green tea to prevent obesity
Here are three ways to drink green tea that can help prevent obesity.
Use hot water
The obesity-inhibiting catechins and caffeine are easily soluble in hot water.
Therefore, when drinking green tea to prevent obesity, it is a good idea to brew tea with hot water.
Choose Nibancha or Sanbancha.
Green tea leaves are classified as Ichibancha (first picked tea), Nibancha (second picked tea) and Sanbancha (third picked tea) depending upon the harvest time.
While Ichibancha is generally said to have good quality and aroma, it is the Nibancha and Sanbancha that provide a good dose of catechins.
This is because catechins, which are produced by the action of light, are abundant in Nibancha and Sanbancha that grows during long hours of sunlight.
Their astringency is stronger than that of Ichibancha, but it is recommended that you choose Nibancha or Sanbancha when drinking tea to prevent obesity.
Make use of FOSHU tea
Some teas that are designated as Food for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU) by the Secretary General of the Consumer Affairs Agency also have an effect on obesity.
Since FOSHU teas are only approved if they are scientifically recognized as having health benefits, they are only commercialized if they have already been proven to be effective.
When drinking FOSHU tea to combat obesity, it's a good idea to choose a product such as Lemon Tokucha (Suntory), which is described as “helping to reduce fat”.
Have green tea to prevent obesity
In this article, I have explained the ingredients of green tea to prevent obesity and how to drink it effectively.
If you are suffering from obesity, how about trying these healthy preventative measures.