A super powerful way to drink coffee to lose fat and lose weight: adding green tea will double the effect? Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan said...

Coffee is considered by office workers to be a must-have drink that can refresh the mind and help burn fat and lose weight. In order to enhance the strength of coffee, there was even a media report a few days ago that according to a Japanese weight loss doctor, green tea and coffee together can enhance the weight loss effect to 1+1>2, which means that "coffee and green tea for weight loss" is more effective than drinking either alone. Is this true? Let’s hear what Chinese medicine practitioners have to say.

Is coffee a "divine drink"? Common benefits are as follows

Coffee, which is accompanied by a strong "black gold force", is as good as a "god-like drink" to the human body. Zhou Zonghan, attending physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Ren'ai Branch of Taipei Municipal United Hospital, said that coffee contains caffeine, which can promote metabolism and accelerate fat decomposition, so it is possible to drink black coffee to help lose weight. In addition, coffee is a stimulant beverage and a central nervous system stimulant. It has a refreshing and invigorating effect, can promote brain activity, and make the mind clearer.

In addition, coffee can stimulate the sympathetic nerves and stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to secrete gastric acid, which helps promote digestion and defecation. In addition, coffee has a diuretic effect, which makes it easy for the body to lose water, so coffee has a temporary effect of reducing edema. As a result, many office workers are "coffee addicts" who cannot live without coffee every day.

To enjoy the benefits of coffee, you need to pay attention to these details!

However, to get the benefits of coffee, there are still some things to pay attention to! If you want to boost your metabolism by drinking coffee, don't add sugar or use sweeteners. Many people choose to use calorie-free sugar substitutes for fear of getting fat. In fact, consuming sugar substitutes will increase the body's desire for food, indirectly making you eat more. Some people like to add some additives to coffee to make it taste like milk, in order to increase the flavor. For example, adding almonds makes it almond milk, adding coconut makes it coconut milk, etc. In fact, the more additives there are, the more calories will increase, and you should pay special attention to the sugar content.

If you want to add other tastes and aromas to coffee but don't want to increase the calories, and at the same time want to enhance the effect of promoting metabolism, Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan recommends adding spices such as cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, etc. to coffee in moderation. These spices can replace sugar and increase the aroma of coffee. Among them, cinnamon has the most benefits. Cinnamon can control blood sugar balance, reduce the desire for hunger, and is also a great helper for weight loss and health. Therefore, whether drinking coffee will make you gain weight or lose weight is decided the moment you pick up the spoon and add it.

Coffee plus green tea, weight loss effect 1+1>2?

As for, some Japanese experts have proposed that the caffeine in green tea and coffee can stimulate the sympathetic nerves, increase satiety, and break down fat, which helps with weight loss. Can coffee and green tea really achieve the weight loss effect of 1+1>2?

The key to coffee's fat burning effect comes from caffeine, which inhibits phosphodiesterase, stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, and enhances the effects of neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine, thereby promoting the body's energy consumption and fat oxidation, achieving a fat burning effect. However, the key ingredient of green tea that helps burn fat is catechins, which can affect the sympathetic nervous system in the body, stimulate and prolong the effects of norepinephrine, increase energy consumption and promote fat oxidation.

Excessive intake of espresso caffeine is not conducive to weight loss

Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan said that since both coffee and green tea contain caffeine, it is still not advisable to consume them in excess. If you consume more than 500 mg a day, which is equivalent to about 4 cups of 150c.c. drip-ground coffee each, you may have symptoms of mild caffeine poisoning such as anxiety, irritability, and palpitations. If you want to lose weight successfully, it is difficult to achieve the effect by drinking black coffee alone. At most, it will only make the body excrete more water. In addition, many people think that if they want to lose weight by drinking coffee, they must drink a lot and the coffee must be concentrated. In fact, this is a wrong concept, because excessive caffeine intake can easily cause excessive contraction of blood vessels, which in turn leads to poor blood circulation. Food energy cannot be effectively used in the body and will be converted into fat accumulation.

Drinking coffee one hour before exercise helps consume energy and accelerate fat burning

Healthy weight loss is the best strategy! It is recommended to start by adjusting daily living habits, combining diet control and exercise. When calorie consumption exceeds calorie intake, weight loss can be achieved. Therefore, drinking coffee together with exercise is more effective. To reap the health benefits of coffee, you should also pay attention to the time of drinking. It is recommended to drink coffee one hour before exercise and take in about 200 mg of caffeine. This can increase the excitement of the nervous system, promote energy consumption, accelerate fat burning, and make you more focused during exercise. It is beneficial for increasing muscle strength and endurance, and can also reduce symptoms of muscle soreness.

However, since coffee is a diuretic, it will accelerate dehydration of the body, so you must always replenish water during exercise; for patients with hypertension, they should also avoid caffeine as it may cause a temporary increase in blood pressure. At this time, strenuous exercise can easily cause emergencies such as myocardial infarction or cerebral stroke.

People with Yin deficiency and spleen and stomach dampness and heat should be careful when drinking coffee

In addition, some people are more sensitive to caffeine, so they should never drink coffee as a way to lose weight. Chinese medicine practitioner Zhou Zonghan said that from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, drinking too much coffee every day may lead to addiction, reduce sensitivity to coffee, and cause people to drink more in a vicious cycle. If you drink too much, you may easily become a coffee addict, especially if you have a yin deficiency due to staying up late, irregular work and rest, and high stress. People with damp-heat spleen and stomach constitution are prone to excessive stomach acid. Drinking coffee will make it more stimulating and make them prone to gastroesophageal reflux. If you use coffee to lose weight at this time, not only will you easily become addicted to coffee, but the weight loss effect will also decrease over time.

In addition to paying attention to your physical condition when drinking coffee, if you want to promote metabolism by drinking coffee, the prerequisite is that your body should not be at risk of potential chronic diseases. It is recommended that diabetic patients switch to low-caffeine coffee, and patients with hypertension should avoid drinking coffee as soon as they wake up in the morning to prevent their blood pressure from rising too high. Pregnant women should not drink more than two cups (about 200 mg of caffeine) a day to avoid increasing the risk of miscarriage, premature birth, or low birth weight.