Health & Fitness

KOU TEA: LOSE UP TO 5 POUNDS PER WEEK Tea is one of the most popular drinks for losing weight. There are many types of teas available in the market which helps in weight loss. The most popular being Green tea and the lesser ones known as White Tea, Oolong and Pu-erh. Green Tea and Oolong tea helps in losing weight to an average of 3.5 pounds in 15-18 weeks of time. You will have to take one of these teas for a longer period of time and at least 3-5 cups per day. The other teas like white and Pu-erh Tea are not that effective as Green and Oolong Teas. As long as your goal of 10-12 pounds weight loss is concerned than Green tea/Oolong Tea are OK, but what if your goal is losing weight up to 20-25 pounds in a shorter time? Then these teas won’t help and here you would need a special tea which can help you with this. This tea known as Kou Tea is a specialized tea developed for more weight loss and it contains the blend of  four different teas as mentioned below:...

Does Red Tea help in weight loss? Let us take a look as to how it helps: Detoxification: What is Detox and do we really need to do it? Detoxification is the removal of toxins from our system which we add when we drink water, eat poor food and breathe polluted air. Our body itself takes care of removing these toxins with the help of the liver. So Is it necessary that we should do it? Yes, why not as it will give our liver a small help all along the way. How does detoxification help in weight loss? Detoxifications mean the removal of toxins from the body which blocks you from losing the weight. Scientifically toxin causes inflammation leading to leptin resistance which helps in maintaining the excess weight. So in this way the detox helps. There are many detox drinks available in the market. But the one which we are talking is Red Tea detox programme and herein we are giving the full honest review of the programme which is created by Liz Swann Miller, who is a naturo...

Are you worried about your weight? Next time when you eat, pay attention to what you eat which would help you in not overeating. There is a proverb saying that when you are walking, walk and when eating, eat. But in this modern society, we have the habit of doing multitask like when eating we check our cell phone or watch TV, etc.  How does this affect our health?  Our food intake increases if we fail to focus on what we are eating while multitasking . A study carried out by a team from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom have concluded the above point that attention and memory affect food intake. These studies were carried out on two groups in which one group eat a meal while watching TV whereas the other ate the same meal without watching TV. The study concluded the following points: Not paying attention while eating the meal made the people eat more. Paying attention while eating meal lead to eating less later on. Focusing on eating wi...

Are you a chocolate lover? Cannot give up eating it? Weary of thinking that you would gain weight? Here is the good news that eating chocolates would help you lose extra weight. Yes, it is true. Eating chocolates can lose weight But the chocolate which we are talking about is not milk chocolates but dark chocolates. Now one would want to know the difference and how dark chocolates help us in reducing weight. Both the milk and dark chocolates contain cocoa content. The milk chocolates have cocoa content solids up to 10% which are diluted by milk and given a sweet taste as cocoa is bitter in taste. The dark chocolates don’t have milk in it but the cocoa content is more than 20%. The dark chocolates which have cocoa content more than 70% are the ones which help in losing weight. Dark chocolates of good quality have antioxidant epicatechin which helps in increasing the rate at which the fat in the body is burnt and also helps in suppressing the appetite. These two are the...

A good old cup of coffee in the morning not only boost up with energy but also enhance the workout effects, improve performance and delays fatigue. This is the reason why many workout supplements have caffeine as an ingredient, which is a substance monitored by the International Olympic Committee. Every system in our body is affected by Caffeine but its impact on our mood, alertness, exercise performance and metabolism are due to some interactions. Apart from Energy drinks, caffeine is received from coffee or some special gels or chewing gum. So does drinking coffee before doing workouts really make a difference?  Here’s how Caffeine works:        Fats are broken down from fat tissues. On an average of 11-15% caffeine improves physical performance and so also increases hormone epinephrine blood levels. Thus Epinephrine hormone travels to the fat tissues through blood and breaks down the fats into fatty acid in the blood which in turn is used as...