Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Super Food Ingredients of Wu Yi Tea

By Thomas J. Slater

If you've already try one or more weight-loss diets, you know that weight loss is never easy. Even though you may actually drop enough pounds to get you to your target weight through your efforts, keeping those pounds off is even harder work than losing them was. You can try to keep the way from creeping back on with a program of regular exercise, but that will only work if your lifestyle permits regular trips to the gym. What you could really use is a weight-loss aid which is natural, affordable, and above all safe.

What you could really use, in other words, is Wu Yu tea, a strain of Oolong tea grown on the slopes of sacred Mount Wu Yi in China's Fujiang province. The Chinese have grown Oolong tea for countless centuries, thriving on its robust, almost coffee-like flavor. The Chinese are also a people known for their slender physiques, long life spans, and radiantly clear complexions. Is there a connection between their good health and their consumption of Wu Yi tea?

Therefore, it wasn't too much of a surprise that numerous clinical studies have shown that this may well be the case. There are ingredients in Wu Yi tea which promote healthy, natural weight loss and also provide many other health benefits. The baby boom generation is aging ? and they are in search of natural ways to stay healthy as they grow older. Wu Yi tea seems to be the answer for them, thanks to its polyphenol and antioxidant content.

The dying and fermenting process undergone by the Wu Yi tea leaves make the tea full of polyphenols, a compound which helps you body to break down fat and burn it as energy.

Studies in Asia, Europe and the US have all shown the many health benefits of Wu Yi tea. There are the polyphenols that help your body to burn fat, of course ? and a Japanese study found that the tea can increase the rate of energy expenditure by 10% in the two hours after drinking the tea, helping you to burn fat even faster!

Another benefit of Wu Yi tea is that it lowers your levels of LDL (bad cholesterol) and raises your HDL (good cholesterol) levels. A study done at London?s King?s College also demonstrated that Wu Yi tea can help prevent some cancers and heart disease as well as strengthening bones and teeth thanks to its calcium content.

While you, like millions of other people, may be initially attracted to Wu Yi tea because of its weight-loss properties, think about all the other health benefits you'll get simply by drinking too cause of this delicious, natural, safe beverage each day!

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