Lose Weight with Green Tea:A Safe Weight-Loss Method That Works
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Lose Weight with Green Tea tells you what Asian and Indian cultures have know for centuries: just by drinking green tea you can burn fat and increase your metabolism while reaping the benefits of green tea's antioxidants, which help prevent heart disease, some cancers and a host of other ailments.
Patricia Rouner
Patricia Rouner, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, is co-author of the New Business Values for Success in the Twenty-first Century and has edited a wide range of publications: medical textbooks, children’s books and sailing magazines. She used green tea to lose the 30 pounds that had mysteriously appeared over the last 30 years
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Lose Weight with Green Tea:A Safe Weight-Loss Method That Works - Patricia Rouner
Lose Weight with Green Tea
A Safe Weight-Loss Method that Works
Patricia Rouner
Smith House Press
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Copyright 2005 © by Patricia Rouner.
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Rouner, Patricia
Lose weight with green tea: a safe, sensible way toward weight management / Patricia Rouner.p. : ill. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0-9615221-7-8
1. Reducing diets. 2. Weight Loss. 3. Green tea -- Health aspects. I. Title. RM222.2 .R68 2005 613.2/5Printed in the United States of America
Cover by Mayapriva Long
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To my aunt, Goldie Miller, for her continual support and her example of a well-lived life.
Acknowledgments
Every book is a team effort, both in front of and behind the computer screen. Steve, Stephanie and Kiera deserve thanks for traversing piles and piles of papers and books without injury and without comment (at least within my hearing range). A special thanks to my son, Patrick, who, in addition to the above, kept the tea cupboard full and the teakettle hot.
Thanks also to my favorite uncle, Merle Miller, for continuing to be.
Special thanks to my sister, Verlene, who helped beyond measure when needed. Bill Waddington, the Tea Guy, was incredibly nice and very patient to a rookie tea drinker. His knowledge and love of tea provided energy to the book and his TeaSource stores provided sustenance.
Thanks to Beth Upton for her enthusiasm, insightful comments and great abilities in fine tuning the manuscript, and to Mayapriya Long for her amazingcover design abilities.
Finally, she-who-has-no-asterisk, the amazing Sybil Smith, friend and publisher, I thank you for your patience, your confidence, your care and concern and, most of all, your wacky sense of humor.
Introduction
Curb your appetite! *
Speed up your fat burning! *
Lose weight and not be hungry! *
Lose ten pounds in five days! *
Forget calories! Forget carbs! *
The claims are enticing. When I see them on television or in a magazine or newspaper ad, it’s sometimes tempting to think that just by taking a pill or a few capsules a day I could lose those extra pounds. The ads often imply I won’t have to give up my favorite foods and won’t even have to look at a treadmill. Better yet, some ads hint that I can lose weight while sleeping. I could deal with that. But then I see the asterisk.
There’s always an asterisk. It’s usually quite small and easy to miss. The asterisks after the claims refer to additional information that can be found in the ad, usually at the bottom in very small type. They’re almost always accompanied by the words When used with our diet and exercise program
or a similar statement.
Darn.
Sometimes the ads show a beautiful woman who tells us that she lost 20 pounds while still eating all the chocolate she wanted. She too has an asterisk somewhere or a disclaimer that runs quickly along the bottom of the screen and says, Results not typical.
Double darn, especially since sometimes the before
and after
photos seem to imply that while losing the weight your teeth will be whiter and straighter, your hair will look thicker and shinier and somehow, despite the weight loss, your bust size will increase. It’s especially intriguing when the woman is at least two inches taller in the after
picture.
So when a friend claimed she had lost several pounds without changing her diet, but simply by drinking green tea, I was skeptical to say the least. I looked her up and down but couldn’t find the asterisk. I did notice she had indeed lost weight; she looked better and seemed to have more energy. Over the next few weeks we had some meals together and I could see her appetite hadn’t diminished, nor had her helpings; she ate like she wasn’t dieting. I could also see that she had lost even more weight. I asked more questions about green tea and her answers intrigued me enough to do some research.
The more I researched the more interested I got. Green tea had not been part of my vocabulary, much less my diet. My whole life has been spent with coffee drinkers. When I was a child coffee was an occasional treat in which to dunk a cinnamon roll. Like so many, I started drinking coffee on a regular basis in college. Tea was something I saw only in a Chinese restaurant or politely sipped when nothing else was offered at a friend’s house. I tried herbal teas once in a while after reading their health benefits, but always preferred coffee. I even went to a formal afternoon tea at a restaurant with friends, but have to admit I enjoyed the sandwiches, the scones and the ceremony more than the tea.
The last several years I have had a small box of Earl Grey tea on hand because I knew some friends preferred it, but I didn’t know there was such a thing as green tea, much less oolong, white or red tea. Through my research I have been introduced to a tea world I didn’t know existed. I have found it to be fascinating, surprising and amazingly promising—fascinating because of the history and traditions associated with tea, surprising because of the findings of the many studies I read, and promising because the ongoing research indicates we are getting closer to finding the answers for many of the health issues we face today, including obesity. Green tea may be an important component of those answers.
Let me be clear. I am not an expert. I’m a writer and editor who has edited enough medical books and articles to have a pretty good medical vocabulary and a really good chance at spelling words correctly. More important, I have a library of medical reference books and if I’m not totally sure of a term, I’ll find it and keep reading until I understand it.
It’s harder to figure out which reports are true and which ones are guesses or opinions, what research is flawed, or who has a vested interest in the results, i.e., a cereal company sponsoring research with results saying cereal is good for you. There’s