Coffee lovers, look here! Mixing lemon, cinnamon, matcha and coffee can help you lose weight faster?

The aroma of coffee is always irresistible. It is said on the Internet that adding lemon, turmeric, cinnamon or matcha powder to flavor coffee can make the weight loss effect appear faster and change your body size from XL to M? But is flavored coffee really better? Which one is better for weight loss, adding lemon or adding cinnamon? Guess what!

Whether at home or abroad, weight loss has always been a hot topic. In order to lose weight faster, many people turn their attention to coffee. Some even believe that lemon, turmeric, cinnamon and matcha are all ingredients that help lose weight. When mixed with black coffee, they can produce a "1+1>2" weight loss effect. But are these practices really credible?

Can you lose weight just by drinking coffee?

Before discussing whether flavored coffee can enhance weight loss results, we must first clarify, "Can drinking coffee really help lose weight?" Ni Manting, a nutritionist at Changhua Christian Hospital, explained that the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, heat-producing and diuretic abilities of coffee are believed to be related to weight loss and the reduction of some chronic diseases (such as diabetes), but can coffee alone achieve the goal of weight loss? Actually, it is not.

If you want to lose weight successfully, it is difficult to achieve the effect with black coffee alone. At best, it will just make the body excrete more water. It is recommended to start with adjusting daily living habits, combined with diet control and exercise. Only when calorie consumption is greater than calorie intake can weight loss be achieved. In addition, if you are overly superstitious about the weight-loss effect of black coffee, you may also suffer from symptoms such as palpitations, rapid heartbeat, insomnia, anxiety, abdominal pain, etc. due to long-term excessive caffeine intake, which may make you more likely to fall into an uncomfortable state.

Lemon + coffee, matcha + coffee, upgraded weight loss effect?

In this case, lemon coffee, turmeric coffee, cinnamon coffee and matcha coffee also have no effect on helping to lose weight? Nutritionist Ni Manting explained that lemon is believed to enhance metabolism and burn fat; turmeric is believed to promote metabolism and heat production; cinnamon can speed up metabolism, aid digestion and regulate blood sugar; matcha promotes gastrointestinal motility, inhibits fat absorption and accelerates fat burning, and therefore they are all extended to "help lose weight."

However, evidence-based medicine prevails, and there is currently not enough research to show that adding a small amount of natural lemon, turmeric, cinnamon or matcha powder to coffee can help with weight loss, so people might as well just treat it as a taste change for different coffees!

Instead of focusing on the weight loss effects of flavored coffee such as lemon coffee and matcha coffee, people who are trying to lose weight should pay attention to the amount of sugar and creamer added. Many people don't like black coffee and are used to adding some sugar and creamer to make the coffee taste smoother and easier to drink. However, both sugar and creamer contain a lot of calories, and adding them will make it more difficult to achieve the goal of losing weight.

Does drinking coffee cause osteoporosis? Watch your caffeine and calcium intake

In addition to the much-discussed effect on weight loss, many people also worry that drinking coffee may lead to calcium loss and osteoporosis. In this regard, nutritionist Ni Manting said that most research reviews support that daily caffeine intake of less than 400 mg has no significant effect on fracture risk, bone density and osteoporosis in healthy adults, especially when calcium intake is adequate. From this, it can be inferred that, under the premise of adequate calcium intake, daily caffeine intake of less than 400 mg will not increase the risk of osteoporosis.

Although this result is good news for those who cannot live without coffee, don’t forget to still calculate your daily coffee intake based on your usual coffee drinking habits to avoid excessive caffeine intake! How to calculate it? If it is a packaged product, the total caffeine content of the product can be calculated from the "caffeine content per 100 ml" indicated on the outer packaging.

If it is freshly brewed coffee, the caffeine content will be distinguished by a "red/yellow/green" label. The red label means that "each cup" contains more than 200 mg of caffeine, the yellow label contains 100 to 200 mg, and the green label contains less than 100 mg of caffeine.