Enviga Green Tea
Whilst many scientific studies have shown a connection between
green tea, caffeine and metabolism, WLR Dietitian, Juliette Kellow
reports on Enviga which is claimed is the only ready-to-drink
green tea that has been proven to increase calorie burning.
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Enviga - A Drink that Burns Calories
By WLR Dietitian
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Ask any health expert the best way to burn more calories and
they’ll tell you to be more active. But now, a new soft drink has
been launched in America that claims to burn calories.
Enviga is a range of different flavoured green teas created
jointly by The Coca-Cola Company and Nestle that’s been proven to
burn more calories than it provides. The drink combines an
antioxidant found in green tea called EGCG (epigallocatechin
gallate) and caffeine to boost metabolism.
In a study carried out by Nestle in collaboration with the
University of Lausanne in Switzerland, normal weight 18 to 35 year
olds who drank the equivalent of three cans of Enviga over the
course of a day burnt an extra 106 calories.
Four other clinical
studies have been carried out to evaluate the calorie burning
properties of EGCG and caffeine. When the levels of EGCG and
caffeine were comparable to that in three cans of Enviga, healthy
individuals burnt an extra 60 to 100 calories.
Enviga Green Tea comes in three flavours – regular Green Tea, Berry
and Peach – and provides just 5 calories per drink.
WLR says…
This is certainly an interesting product and it looks set to
start a new trend in the production of foods and drinks that boost
metabolism and burn more calories than they actually provide.
Currently, there are no plans to launch Enviga in the UK, but
if it’s successful in America, chances are it will eventually end
up hitting our supermarket shelves, too.
While burning an extra 100 calories a day could actually help
us lose up to 10lb in a year, it’s worth remembering that downing
three cans of drink a day won’t have all the other benefits that
calorie-burning aerobic exercise provides such as toning muscles
and improving cardiovascular fitness and lung capacity.
It would also be good to see some independent studies carried
out to confirm Enviga’s calorie-burning potential and to see if it
aids weight loss over time.
New products like this are always interesting, it’s important
to remember that they’re not a miracle cure. Bottom line: to lose
weight and keep it off for life, you need to change your eating
habits and take more exercise. So don’t give up your diet and
fitness plan just yet!
For more information visit
www.enviga.com |
