Green tea is one of the healthy beverages worldwide, especially for healthy weight loss purpose.  Studies show that green tea can help in few areas in our health, including help in boosting metabolism, increase fat burning ability, block fat absorption, raise your immune system, promote healthier skin as well as help in anti-aging process.

What is Green Tea
Although all teas are derived from the same plant (Camellia sinensis), they are basically grouped into three main types: Green tea, oolong tea and black tea based on their preparation.  For example, black tea is withered, rolled, fermented and dried for curing.  Through the flavor-enhancing fermentation process, the bioactive polyphenols of the fresh leaf are oxidized, causing the loss of its full complement of beneficial polyphenols.  Green tea, on the other hand, is prepared from lightly steamed and dried leaves.  This steaming process inactivates the enzymes responsible for oxidation, leaving the polyphenols content intact.
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Trans-fat is no longer a strange term for people who concern about health.  Anyway, it is still common that a lot of people who do not familiar with trans-fat, although they aware that there are ”good” fats and “bad” fats.  Normally, people believe that bad fats are saturated fat, and they will avoid consuming it especially when they are engaged in their program for weight loss.  Actually, this is too fast to be concluded that bad fats are saturated as there is a type of fat that far more dangerous than saturated fat and this is none other than trans-fat.

Virtually, all the data we have that link the saturated fats and heart disease does not distinguish between saturated fat and trans- fat.  This makes us hardly to know whether or not saturated fat got the blame for something that was really being done by trans-fat.

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If you understand the weight loss concept, eating smart always plays an important role in healthy weight loss besides performing right weight loss exercise.  In fact, you can have the optimal results for healthy weight loss purpose if you include both dieting and exercising in your weight loss plan.

Eating Smart Tip #1: Roast the vegetables

One of the great eating smart tips is roast the vegetables instead of steam them.  Even the most ardent anti-vegetable person is won over a plate of roasted vegetables.  Try it.  Take a bunch of vegetables, including all kind of peppers and root vegetables such as carrots, parsnips, beets and onions, cut them up and arrange them in a roasting pan.  Drizzle with olive oil and put them in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes.  You will be amazed with the sweetness and flavor you never know existed from the roasting.  Of course, you need to know that olive oil is oil, and it carries 120 calories per tablespoon.  Anyway, it is acceptable as long as your total daily calorie intake is within your consumption amount for healthy weight loss purpose.

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It is inevitable for you to come into contact with artificial sweetener if you drink diet sodas.  This is what my friend who is on her weight loss program doing.  She orders diet sodas rather than normal soda drinks since she is on her diet program for weight loss.  In fact, artificial sweetener is not so recommended for healthy weight loss, and overall health purpose.

Below are 6 common artificial sweeteners available on the market for your reference, even though it is not recommended their use over natural sweetener.

1) Aspartame
Aspartame (included in Equal brand artificial sweetener) is probably the most common used artificial sweetener nowadays and it is commonly used in most diet sodas.  Although it has been declared safe, analysis published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association reveals that FDA has received numerous reports of seizures and other issues that have been linked to it.

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