Every year we hear about a miracle diet that helps you loose pounds like you cannot imagine. But what you usually find is some small print at the bottom of the page including the words: “only effective when used in conjunction with a calorie controlled diet” or something along those lines. This at the end of the day only ads up to more money spent on temporary weight loss.

What’s your goal?
Before starting a diet, decide what your purpose or goal is. Do you want a healthier lifestyle or is it mainly for weight loss? This could influence your choice of diet immensely.

Of course both of these reasons should have healthy basics, but if it’s mainly a change of lifestyle, a diet may not be as prescriptive compared to a weight loss diet. In both cases, moderation should be the key, as the proverb goes: "You eat to live, you don’t live to eat".

Keep this in mind...
There are many benefits of eating regular meals. According to most nutritional professionals the three basics to a good healthy diet include: balance, variation and moderation.

In order to have balance in your diet you would need to include different food groups in proportion to one another, for example, your carbohydrate intake in comparison to protein intake and so forth. This should include balancing out the amount of healthy food compared to amount of unhealthy food you consume.

Variation includes adding food as part of your diet from various food-types. Apart from the health benefits of getting all the nutrients and vitamins your body needs, it also lessons the boredom of dieting.

Moderation is one of the fastest growing problems in today’s society. The size of portions consumed is larger than what our body requires. You need to balance the amount of food you consume appropriately. It takes your brain and stomach about 20 minutes to register fullness, which often leads to overindulgence. If you moderate your diet, you will learn the difference between hunger, satisfaction and fullness very quickly. For portion control we recommend The Diet Plate®
One of the biggest problems for many people is that when on a diet, they always feel hungry and due to unrealistic goals, which leave them disheartened and likely to lose interest, they quit the diet before they have even reached half of their goal. This is where a natural product like Pu-erh Tea can be a great help

Pu-erh Tea

Pu-erh tea has always enjoyed the good reputation of Weight-loss tea.

It can cut fat, help digestion, warm stomach, help produce saliva, dispel the effects of alcohol and refresh one’s mind.

According to research, Yunnan Pu-erh tea can increase blood flow through the brain and heart, reduce the obstruction of cerebral blood vessels and lower the blood pressure. It has obvious effects against hypertension, high fat in blood, Anti-carcinogenic etc.

It is good for:

removing body toxins, is anti-bacterial, facial nourishment, anti-aging, controls hormone, controls body weights and removes body fat, strengthens immune system, reduces inflammation, cultivates blood circulation, etc.

Yunnan Pu-erh tea is a naturally refreshing drink and taken on its own it has no calories, so it's the perfect drink to keep you looking good and feeling fit. Four cups of tea a day can provide you with significant amounts of the following nutrients: approximately 17% of the recommended intake for calcium, 5% for zinc, 22% for Vitamin B2, 5% for folic acid, and Vitamins B1 and B6.

A cup of Yunnan tea is also a good source of manganese, which is essential for general physical development, and potassium which helps to maintain your body's fluid balance.

Yunnan PU-ERH Tea

WHAT THE PRESS HAVE BEEN SAYING:

'Best for Slimming: Pu'erh tea....it's a chinese large-leafed tea that contains compounds to boost metabolism and decrease fat absorption' Celebs on Sunday, March 2008

"The celebrity drink of choice for the new year is tea, but perish the thought that it's good old workman's brew. Instead, it's rather oddly named Pu'erh tea...it's fans include Victoria Beckham, Jerry Hall and Joss Stone, who have converted to a drink that for centuries has been known as a "wonder tea" in China" The Press & Journal, January 2008

"Victoria Beckham's latest diet secret is a metabolism-boosting tea that also helps keep her wrinkle free...Posh is supposedly drinking it everyday to keep her figure pin thin....Jerry Hall and Joss Stone are also fans of Pu'erh Tea..." Now magazine, October 2007

"First drunk in ancient china to ease digestion, Pu'erh Tea is making a comeback thanks to celebrity fans, who reportedly include Victoria Beckham. It helps the body digest fatty food - three cups a day was found to reduce cholestrol by 25 per cent - plus it's packed with antioxidants" Marie Clare magazine, April 2008 2008

“…Pu’erh tea is said to boost the metabolism and contains anti-wrinkle properties…” The Daily Star, November 2007

Pu-erh Tea Info

Pu-erh Tea