Weight Loss Tip: no.1695
Energy drinks aren’t the most effective way to lose weight.
Care to guess why?
Yup, energy drinks aren’t as beneficial for weight loss as you would assume mostly because of their calorie content. As an explanation, energy drinks typically contain caffeine, a stimulant that helps increase the amount of calories and fat the body burns. Another common ingredient is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is derived from green tea and may also boost fat and calorie burning. Now, as special as those scientifically proven ingredients are on their own, any of their metabolic rewards are virtually canceled out by the high amount of calories and sugar that are endemic of the most popular energy drinks.
As for sugar-free energy drinks, the artificial sweeteners may make weight loss difficult or even lead to the gaining of it in a few ways. One is by causing the pancreas to produce insulin in anticipation of sugar that never comes, which can confuse the metabolic process. With that repeated enough over time, it can eventually lead to insulin resistance and the storage of calories as fat. Second, because sugar substitutes are sometimes 100-700 times sweeter than real sugar and contain few to no calories, they can cause you to crave more sweet foods and beverages, which can drive you to consume more calories. What may also contribute to cravings and hunger is the fact that artificial sweeteners don’t activate regions of the brain involved in food reward like table sugar does. That in turn can result in overeating in an attempt to achieve a positive feeling of satisfaction. All those things and more that are associated with the current findings on artificial sweeteners are also why sugar-free energy drinks may not be better sources of caffeine and EGCG than black coffee or tea.
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