Our Lady of Weight Loss | motivation: the kick in the tush club

Tea Time

Our Lady of Green Tea

The Cheshire Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
Alice: "How do you know I'm mad?"
The Cheshire Cat: "You're here, aren't you?"

~ The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Chapter 7, Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Green tea, used for thousands of years in Asia, as both beverage and herbal medicine is now the subject of numerous scientific studies in the U.S. and abroad.

Research shows that green tea helps to prevent cancer and heart disease. Green tea slows the aging process and may even reduce harmful blood cholesterol and blood sugar levels. It has been known to prevent and reduce the pain of rheumatoid arthritis.

Miraculous health benefits, indeed, but not enough to move me to brew a pot. But when I heard that scientists in the United States and Switzerland had published a study in the December 1999 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition5 and Urology6 showing that green tea extract contained a substance that may help burn fat, it was all burners aflame.

The Linus Pauling Institute explains that the weight loss is "apparently due to increased fat oxidation and thermogenesis."

Dear OLofWL, I put down my weights and turned to e-mail to catch my breath between exercises. Seeing the beautiful arms on OL in this weeks "Kick" has given me incentive to add a few more repetitions to my workout. Do you think that at age 71, I could ever hope for anything that even comes close? - GBK from Illinois (though currently in Palm Springs, Ca. enjoying the sunshine.)

Dear She who Soaks up the Rays in C.A.,. How wonderful that you lift weights - at any age and in particular at age 71. Did you know that our bodies decrease in strength, flexibility, cardiovascular and respiratory endurance more from inactivity than aging? Thank you for reminding us all to keep moving, lifting and living. You are a beautiful inspiration, inside and out, including your arms, which I am sure are even more beautiful than Our Lady's! ~ OLofWL

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