Starting each morning with a cup of green tea can help you lose weight.

  Green tea certainly isn't

the magic bullet of weight loss, but it is one of the healthiest and best diet food or drink you can
add to your daily routine.

Green tea helps boost your metabolism.  You can burn 80 extra calories a day simply by adding
green tea to your diet.  It is a substance called catechins that is responsible for the weight loss
effects of green tea.

In a Japanese study, men were split into two groups.  They were similar in body size and
instructed to eat the same meals.  One group drank oolong tea that had been fortified with green
tea extract.  This tea contained 690 milligrams of catechins.  The other group only had 22
milligrams of catechins in their non-fortified oolong tea.

This study went on for three months.  At the end, the group who drank the oolong tea with the
extract lost an average of 5.3 pounds and decreased their LDL cholesterol.  Those who drank the
regular oolong tea only lost an average of 2.9 pounds.