Top Three Drinks to Consider, and One to Avoid When Losing Weight
Similar to coffee and water, unsweetened green tea is guaranteed low in calories and thus, making it a healthy beverage.
When attempting to lose weight, most people frequently obsess over what they eat but tend to forget about what they drink.
A 2017 study on Obesity indicates that American adults are drinking roughly "340 calories" on average each day. Meaning, the number of calories one drinks in a week is almost 2,400, a number which is way beyond the suggested calorie intake per day for the majority of the adults.
Most adult people, regardless of their gender and nationality, sip, more often than not on, soda, tea, and coffee with creamer and sugar, juice, milk, and even alcoholic beverage.
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Top 3 Beverages for Weight Loss
If you're drinking too much of those as mentioned earlier, or at least, any of them, don't feel so guilty. It does not mean that you should take the beverages out of your everyday diet.
Some can, in fact, be your perfect companions while you're on your weight loss regimen. Here are three of them:
Water
This is no longer a big surprise. Water has been the forever "best drink" choice for all ages, especially in terms of staying hydrated and losing weight.
Essentially, water does not contain any calorie, and thus, it is certainly not contributing to your total caloric intake.
Coffee
Coffee is indeed, almost free of any calorie, as well, which, according to experts, "makes it a smart sip" if you're in a weight loss regimen.
Just be sure though, you're consuming black coffee without creamer, and possibly no sugar, too. According to the USDA, black coffee contains two calories a cup.
You're probably wondering if coffee is indeed promoting weight loss. The truth is, studies are mixed. Some study authors have found, like the clinical test published in 2019, that 24 weeks after, drinking four cups of coffee each day resulted in "greater fat loss" than to not drinking the beverage at all.
The only drawback in this study, though, is that four cups of coffee possibly push one beyond his daily limit of caffeine consumption.
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Furthermore, other research studies cite the ways coffee is likely to hinder one from achieving weight loss. Additionally, caffeine may reportedly mess with the way a person tastes sweetness, making drinks taste "less sweet than they originally are.
Green Tea
Similar to coffee and water, unsweetened green tea is guaranteed low in calories and thus, making it a healthy beverage.
According to the USDA, a cup of green tea contains zero calories, and it can undeniably help one lose weight if he is switching for other sweetened drinks such as coffee, soda, and sugar.
However, there a study that shows, green tea may have "a modest impact on one's health." Eight weeks after, those who drank four cups of green tea, or an extract of it every day, lost considerably more weight compared to those who drank water.
Another study, on the other hand, shows, green tea does not have any significant effect on one's weight.
A Drink to Avoid
There are drinks promoted as contributors to weight loss. Indeed, diet soda has zero-calorie, but it does not necessarily mean, you should include it regularly in your weight loss program.
According to a 2018 research, more than one-third of the drinks people consume have "low-calorie sweeteners."
And, while these beverages may be considered contributors, there is considerable evidence citing the opposing impacts they may bring to one's health, study says.
While these types of beverages may help control your intake, there is significant evidence pointing to the opposing impact effects they may have on your health, per the study.
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