Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Super Food Ingredients of Wu Yi Tea

By Thomas J. Slater

If you've tried out a few weight loss diets, you are well aware that it can be tough to lose weight. However, it?s even tougher to keep those excess pounds off once you lose them. You may have been able to reach your target weight through a diet, but unless you have the time for a daily workout routine, maintaining this weight can be a real struggle. What you need to achieve and maintain a healthy weight is a safe, all natural and inexpensive weight loss aid.

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.

Perhaps not so surprisingly, clinical research has now established that the ingredients in Wu Yi tea will promote weight loss and may also provide significant other health benefits. As the aging Baby Boomer population becomes more and more concerned with terms like, "free radical damage," "carcinogens," and "environmental toxins," they are turning more and more to natural substances as they seek protection from all of these things.

Because of the drying and fermenting of the tea leaves, Wu Yi tea is rich in polyphenols which help to burn off excess energy stored as fat in the body.

Scientists in countries around the globe, including China, Japan, Europe, and the United States, have established how different substances contained in Wu Yi tea function to benefit your health. Polyphenols are compounds which stimulate your body's ability to break down fats so that they are burned as energy. Japanese scientists performed a clinical study which indicated that people who drank Oolong tea burned energy, for a period of two hours, at a level 10% higher than those who did not drink the tea..

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, 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! - 15343

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