Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Amazing All Natural 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 should be looking for is Wu Yi tea. Wu Yi tea is a type of oolong tea which is grown and processed at Mount Wu Yi, in China?s Fujian province. For centuries, the Chinese have been enjoying Wu Yi tea, prizing it for its health benefits and it?s rich, robust taste, The Chinese are famed for their long life spans and good health ? something which it is believed that drinking oolong teas may contribute to.

It should come as little surprise then that clinical research has borne out this theory. The compounds found in Wu Yi tea can help to promote weight loss along with other benefits. A large and aging baby boomer population is increasingly turning to natural products to help them age in a healthy way ? which the antioxidant content of Wu Yi tea helps them do.

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.

Research in the US, Asia and Europe have shown that Wu Yi tea has numerous health benefits. There are polyphenols, which help your body break down fat and use this stored energy. Wu Yi and other oolong teas have also been proven in Japanese studies to increase the energy expenditure of people ewho drink it. There is a 10% increase in the amount of energy burned off by people who drink oolong tea in the two hours following consumption.

Wu Yi tea also helps to keep cholesterol levels healthy, by raising the levels of HDL (good cholesterol) while lowering LDL (bad cholesterol) levels. Additional research from King?s College in London has shown that the polyphenol content of Wu Yi tea also helps to protect the body from certain cancers and heart disease. There is also a significant calcium content, which helps the health of the skeletal system and teeth.

While you might first learn about Wu Yi tea because of its weight loss and fat burning benefits, the many other health benefits the tea provides will keep you drinking this healthy beverage every day although the flavor alone might also convince you.

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