The countless health benefits of green tea has been well documented for many years, and green tea weight loss pills have now appeared on the market claiming to not only give you more energy and help you lose weight but also to lower your bad cholesterol levels and help you fight heart and cardiovascular diseases, and even cancer.
In fact, did you know that most weight loss and diet pills contain green tea extract as a primary ingredient? The chances are that if you pick one up off a shelf you’ll find, along with caffeine and other “thermogenic” ingredients, green tea extract as one of the ingredients. However, are green tea weight loss pills all they’re made out to be, or just more hype?
One of the ingredients in green tea weight loss pills is a compound known as Epigallocatechin gallate, also referred to as EGCG. This has been shown to have anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, and anti-viral properties and is over 200 times more potent than vitamin E in fighting free radicals and pro-oxidants. [Continue reading...]
