1. Increases Energy Expenditure And Metabolic Rate. By burning more calories per day, you improve your chances of weight loss – especially if you cut down on your dietary intake of calories overall. Oolong tea can help strike at the root of the matter and amp up your metabolic rate. As one study found, men who took full strength oolong tea had a significantly higher energy expenditure than those who just had plain water they burned about 281 kJ more every day. The tea, in this case, was brewed from 15 gm of tea leaves in all, drunk in five 300 ml servings through the day. The fat oxidation for this group was also higher than those who drank water by 12%.
2. Helps Reduce Weight And Burn Fat. If you’re someone who is carrying around extra weight, oolong tea might help with weight loss. As one piece of research found, 70% of severely obese individuals in the study who had 8 gm of oolong tea daily for a period of 6 weeks saw their body weight drop by over 1 kg, while 22% actually saw weight loss in excess of 3 kg! About 66% of those who were overweight and 64% of those who were obese saw weight loss of over 1 kg during this time, and 12% of all test subjects also saw their subcutaneous fat content decrease.4 As seen in the other study above, the oxidation or burning of fat was 12% higher for subjects who drank oolong tea every day.
3. May Reduce Dietary Fat Absorption. Oolong not only helps cut fat that has accumulated in your body but may also modulate the way it is absorbed and processed. In other words, having oolong tea may even reduce how much fat you absorb and retain in your body from a meal. As one piece of research found, when healthy subjects had polyphenol-enriched oolong tea while on a high-fat diet, it helped increase the amount of lipids excreted by the body into feces.
4. Has Hypolipidemic Properties. Oolong tea’s favorable impact on lipid metabolism also has benefits if you have high cholesterol or triglyceride levels. Hyperlipidemia is a problem many obese people struggle with and this, in turn, can be a risk factor for cardiovascular problems. Oolong tea may be able to help on this front as well. Animal studies show that when test animals were fed oolong tea leaves, as well as the leaves of other kinds of tea (green, black, and pu-erh), it not only helped reduce body weight but also their total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and triglyceride levels significantly.
5. Is A Better Option Than Other Calorie-Laden Drinks. The simplest math when it comes to weight loss is to ensure that the calories you burn exceed the calories you consume every day. Called a calorie deficit, this can help you knock off weight bit by bit every day. If you manage a calorie deficit of say 500 calories a day, you can expect a weight loss of anywhere from 0.5kg to 1kg (1lb to 2lb) in a week.
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