Green tea on a keto diet
There are various types of nutritional plans and diets that can be found either online, or in many other sources. Many of them are based on a biological mechanism that is known as ketosis, in which ones body stops using carbs as the primary source of energy, and instead uses its own body fat, and fat that is taken with food, as the primary energy source. The mentioned mechanism of ketosis can be achieved by a ketogenic type of nutrition, which is actually nothing else but just another name for a low carb diet, because on the ketogenic diet, your goal is to eat food that is rich in fats and proteins, and low in carbs. There are many different meals and food you can eat in order to meet the mentioned criteria.
Unfortunately, most of the food that is high in fats and proteins, but low in carbs, means that there are low in sugars or don’t contain sugars, which than means that most of the meals that one eats on a ketogenic diet are usually salty. Over longer periods of time, for someone who used to eat lots of sweet food and meals, this may present a problem. Luckily, this can be solved by simply using articial sweeteners where they can be used.
Green tea is an excellent beverage that can be drinked throughout the entire diet. One can prepare a cup of this tea after each meal, and sweeten it with a few pellets of artificial sweetener in order to satisfy ones needs for sweets. Green tea is better than most other herbs that can be used to make tea, because of several reasons. It is known to increase avarage fat oxidation rates in humans by 15 to 20 percent when compared to a placebo. It has also been reported that green tea can improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in healthy young people. Another research showed that it doesn’t only help in body fat and weight reduction, but it also reduces blood pressure and cholesterol, thereby lowering the chance of many heart diseases.
There are many reasons why green tea should be drinked. When one is on a ketogenic kind of diet, there is one more reason – combined with exercise, it can significantly help in reduction of excessive body weight.