Tea

[DarthJuan]

I just started drinking green tea this week.

Do you really need to steep it in hot water?

Or can I just tear open the pouch and just dump the leaves into a pitcher of cold water? Which is what I'm doing now.

 

[Heart Break Kid]

Hot water. Plus the sweat and increase in metabolism will help you with your body fat %. Not to mention you're getting a lot of water. I love green tea. You can heat it then let it cool if you want.

 

[mrRuckus]

What? Why would hot water make you burn more calories?

Cold water needs heated by the body before it's absorbed so that's what would burn a very minimal amt of calories. Since when does sweating burn fat?

 

[Heart Break Kid]

I'm just saying unless it's brewed and steeped you won't derive all the benefits of green tea. I remember being told doesn't matter if you like it cold but you need all the chemicals to come out of the leaves otherwise you'll just have water and leaves. I also remember learning in chem class hotter water has a higher solubility. Anyway Green tea is a known boost to metabolism in addition to the water it makes you consume.

My apologies if I confused you by saying sweating. The best way I can put it is now that Ephedra has run into a couple problems with the FDA most of those supplements have added green tea extract which is said to be just a little less effective.