On Dr. Oz: Best Weight-Loss Teas
Looking to lose weight? Then it’s tea time. The benefits of drinking tea are well known. Both black and green teas are rich in antioxidants that help fight heart disease and cancer. Many experts also recommend green tea as a weight-loss aid. But don’t stop there. There are other teas that can help you shed the pounds, including one that worked for Jessica Simpson. Sharecare natural medicine expert Bryce Wylde, says drinking these four teas—at specific times of the day—can be an important part of your weight loss program.
Morning
Start your day with a mug (or two) of Pu-erh tea from eastern China. Pu-erh contains an enzyme-activating ingredient that actually shrinks fat tissue. It also contains high levels of gallic acid, which is believed to inhibit the body’s absorption of fat. The tea is fermented and offers a light, smooth and slightly earthy taste. It contains half the caffeine of coffee, so you can enjoy an extra cup without getting the jitters. Jessica Simpson drank this tea as part of her well-publicized weight loss regimen back in 2010.
Lunchtime
What should you drink at lunch to burn off the fat in that sandwich or fries? White tea. It has a smooth, delicate flavor that pairs well with just about anything, and it contains EGCG, which helps the body metabolize fat more efficiently and aids in blocking fat absorption. In addition to white tea’s weight loss benefits, it also contains L-theanine, which helps reduce stress while promoting concentration—just what you need as you gear up for a busy afternoon. Try two cups with your mid-day meal.
Afternoon
Take an afternoon break and enjoy a cup of chickweed tea. This herbal tea with a light fruit flavor contains magnesium and potassium and works as a mild diuretic, helping you drop a bit of water weight and combat afternoon bloating. Chickweed tea’s mild laxative effect can help remove toxins from the body. Sip one cup per day.
Evening
Bilberry tea should be your evening tea of choice. Bilberries—loaded with antioxidants—help reduce blood sugar levels and taste naturally sweet, so a cup in the evening may keep you from reaching for that box of cookies calling to you from the cabinet. There’s no caffeine, so it’s ideal as a nighttime beverage. Drink one cup each evening.
Think you know a thing or two about tea? Test your tea smarts by taking our Tea Time quiz.
Do you have a favorite tea that helps with a health problem? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Joy Johnston is a Senior Web Producer at Sharecare. She has been an online journalist since 2002, working for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, About.com and AOL CityGuide. She has become gluten-free savvy since being diagnosed as gluten-intolerant in 2005. Favorite exercise: long walks in the park. Health vice: soy lattes.
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6 days ago
Ina DeFelice
Where can I purchase these teas?
dorothy mccormick
Sleepy time tea for me and “smooth move” for “Mr.Wonderful”.
roxanne
where does my matcha green tea fit in all of that ???
Brandy
I like to drink Sweet Dreams tea at the end of the day. My kids enjoy it as well.
Kim
I enjoy licorice tea is the evening…where does it fit in?
Pat Jackson
Where can I buy the chickweed and bilberry tea?
Toni
Where can I purchase these tea’s??
Mary
I have chronic kidney disease..not on dialysis, but I have to watch Na, K & etc… Are the tea’s you listed safe for me?
Thanks
Jaymielee
For some reason I don’t care for tea is there anything to help me to like it?
Bernadette Legere
Where can I purchase these teas?
Lee
can any of these teas be consumed cold rather than hot? In 100 degree temperatures, it’s difficult to swallow the hot stuff.
Jeanette Schmitt
Where do I purchase these recommended teas? Could someone give that information out to “all” your readers? Thank you!
Diana Ross
I love tea and when I need a shot of energy, I drink Oolong tea. Love it and it’s organic:)
I also use organic sugar that has less calories than white sugar.
TLowe
I am so not a tea fan at all. It tastes like I’m drinking grass. My taste buds just don’t like tea. So what are some alternates to these weight loss boosting teas?
Mary-Lou Happy
All these teas look so delicious and would rather drink tea than coffee.
Where can I buy these teas……………..I’m assuming from a health food store and we do have one not too far from us.
Thank y ou and Dr. Oz. my husband and I LOVE your show every day and one of my friends tapes it every day so if I miss something, I can always get it from her.
Thank you kindly and we’ll be making some of that “pizza popcorn” as well, our favourite snack always.
Mary-Lou happy
jeri
I guess you would lose weight, doing all the tea drinking and making it
Jackie
where can I purchase these teas ?
Breanna
Peppermint tea helps you use the restroom. Make sure it’s the herbal kind and not the artificially flavored kind. I bought a box of Celestial tea at Walmart. J
It come in a box and only cost around $4.00.
Janice
Where can you buy the different kinds of tea?
shannon
i just started drinking Organic Ganoderma Green tea,Black Ice and or Red Tea products.I am hoping to see a differrence in my years of fighting pain from Fibromyalgia,stress,arthritis and Lupus. Comments? Also suggested taking spore powder pills.
Am I on the right track?
christy
most of these teas you can buy from the stores….publix has a bunch of different kind of hot teas…Bigelow carries a lot of tea too….Bigelowteas.com
alicia
I drink yerba mate tea
pam
Where can I buy all these teas?
shirley
I love LOVE Hibiscus tea. It not only tastes wonderfully tart it actually lowers my
blood pressure,
yumika
i was able to find some @ the vitamin shoppe. the rest i may have to go to whole foods. hope this helps.
Sandy Crenshaw
Where can I purchase these teas?
Donnary Huggett/Williams
Dr Oz is tapioka pudding healthy and where can I get these teas.? Also at the moment t I’m taking Radiation. Treatment for a brain tumor. Is there anything u can recommend that would make me feel better when I am sick from the radiation. Thank u
Eileen Wegmann
Where can I buy these teas
Bridget Hunter
where can I purchase these teas?
Joanne D
The Vitamin Shoppe carries the Bilberry tea as well as a very wide selection of other teas.
Amber G
I got all my teas, except the billberry, on amazon.
Jerrie R
Dr Oz,
Hello I really enjoy your show and I always seem to learn alot. aaaai guess you could say it is a dream of mine that some day to see you in person. Oh! how fun that would be. I would all so like to know where to purchase these teas? I really enjoy tea and would love to strat drinking these daily.
I have another question for you? My Mom has alot of back pain from scoliosis she is 77 years old. Is there anything that you know of that woul help her feel better so she didn’t
hurt so much?
Thank you,
joanne r.
dr. oz where can i buy the weight loss teas? thank you