There are some major benefits of being fit. You can do more, you live longer, you feel better, and more alive. There is no easy road to burning calories and the myth of drinking green tea as an alternative to burning calories has been put to shame. The old fashion way, keeping a fitness workout, prevails.

Sorry to put a damper on your tea time but green tea alone will not bring weight loss.

One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. You will burn some calories from green tea, 70 to 80 extra calories, from an effect called thermogenesis – which is the process of heat production from thermogenic substances in organisms, but this is from drinking four- seven cups a day. (more…)