'diet' teas

Orla K

I'm just wondering about these for diet, is there any actual evidence to support this.

Just so people know I'm not planning on drinking loads of it and eating like crap, I'm not even planning on drinking loads of it.

I do love these tea, I've a load of it white tea, green tea, mint tea, gunpowder tea, loose leaf green tea(brought over from china), japanese twig tea(which I'm saving as a treat, it was pricey) are afew I have but, for a while I have been keeping a look out for oolong tea and it's gone from people in shops not even hearing about it to it being stocked in a few places. I started to wonder why it went from obscurity to being stocked (I don't think it was me asking either) I did a little bit of looking around and I saw in a few places that oolong tea is now the tea for weight loss.

I trust that someone on here will already know, I'd trust people on here more than a random website I could read. Now I'm not going to stop drinking these teas and I'm not going to drink any more of them either. I'm just wondering where the truth lies and what's the bs.


Also on a bit of a side note, there's also green tea icecream

EileenG

There is research to show that green tea and green tea extract may play a role in fat loss, and that tea in general, drunk without sugar and chocolate biscuits, is a good addition to a fat loss diet. Certainly much better than wine or coke.

But tea is not going to magically shrink the size of your bum or the number on your scales.

Having said that, I've spoken to some people who have been getting some sort of slimming tea from Chinese shops, and they say they are losing weight, mostly because it works as a mega-laxative. Seriously, they are all afraid to be more than five minutes away from a toilet for fear of accidents. I don't know what it is, because they don't know what it is, but it doesn't sound worth it.

Orla K

EileenG wrote: »

There is research to show that green tea and green tea extract may play a role in fat loss, and that tea in general, drunk without sugar and chocolate biscuits, is a good addition to a fat loss diet. Certainly much better than wine or coke.

But tea is not going to magically shrink the size of your bum or the number on your scales.

Having said that, I've spoken to some people who have been getting some sort of slimming tea from Chinese shops, and they say they are losing weight, mostly because it works as a mega-laxative. Seriously, they are all afraid to be more than five minutes away from a toilet for fear of accidents. I don't know what it is, because they don't know what it is, but it doesn't sound worth it.

Do you know how green tea plays a role?

Mostly I just think it does f all, I mean if it does help in some way I doubt it's going to be much. And I doubt it matters if its green, white, black or oolong tea as long as what you said it's without the milk, sugar and biscuits.

Also lol at the mystery laxative tea, I don't know why people do things like that, how does the laxative effect not want them to stop.

EileenG

www.ajcn.org/content/70/6/1040.short

As for the mystery tea, I think they were so pleased to see a lower number on the bathroom scales that they didn't worry about anti-social effects of the tea. I've never understood why people obsess over that number, rather than how tight your jeans are.