At first glance, coffee and weight-loss don’t seem like words that belong together in the same sentence. But whether you love it hot or iced, coffee is about to become your go-to new diet drink. And if that sounds too good to be true — especially if you’re hooked on your daily coffee, like many of us — we have good news.
Inspired by exciting evidence that an ordinary cup of coffee can help increase a person’s life, 60 Minutes medical correspondent Bob Arnot, M.D., began experimenting with ways we can reap maximum benefits.
The result: a whole new way to detox, one built around special coffee (both regular and decaf, hot and iced) that boasts the highest doses of disease-and-fat-fighting antioxidants. To date, people testing Dr. Arnot’s “coffee cleanse” have cured everything from eczema to type-2 diabetes while speeding off upwards of 20 kgs in 50 days.
Dr. Arnot promises if you “drink coffee my way… you can trigger unparalleled weight loss while changing your entire life for the better.”
Mother Marney Rohda, 48, was among the first to volunteer for the coffee cleanse. Eight weeks later, she was 9kg lighter. “I never drank coffee regularly before. Now I’m hooked!” she says.
Then there’s Gloria Culmone, 47. Upping her coffee intake to five high-phenol cups a day, she dropped 7kg in 21 days. “I’m not sleepy in the afternoons anymore, my cravings for unhealthy foods went away, and maintaining my weight loss has been easy,” she says. “The right coffee can do amazing things.”
Does coffee help you lose weight?
After studies from the National Institutes of Health pointed to antioxidants in coffee called phenols as key to the drink’s many health benefits, Dr. Arnot was curious about which options were highest in phenols. He was shocked to find no comprehensive tests existed, and eventually hired chemists at a Vermont lab to systematically rank hundreds of beans and brews.
What he quickly learned: “Dark roasting destroys phenols,” says Dr. Arnot, who adds that he and his team took to calling the lightest roasts “lean roasts,” because they explode with slimming compounds and, unlike their dark counterparts, “are delicious without sugar.”
Whether you use Dr Arnot’s detox regimen or not, every cup of high-phenol coffee you sip will give you a fat-fighting edge.
How High-Phenol Coffee Slims
High-phenol coffee affects the body by giving you:
A faster metabolism. According to a preliminary Japanese study, phenols cause a short-term burst of faster calorie burning. Phenols also boost calorie burn long term by preventing a type of inflammation that not only stalls our thyroids but can also lead to loss of metabolism-boosting muscle. Bonus: Stimulants in even a single cup of caffeinated coffee “are proven to increase metabolism by an extra 75-100 calories a day,” says Dr. Arnot.
Faster fat burning. Phenols in coffee have been shown to lower levels of insulin, a very good thing, since the hormone blocks fat burning. The less insulin we make, the more readily fat burns! Phenols have also been shown to decrease the formation of new fat, says Dr. Arnot. Another caffeine bonus: the stimulant helps free fat from fat cells during activity, so the body can quickly incinerate it. “It’s a phenomenal boost to weight loss.”
Fat and calorie blocking. There are actually a few different types of phenols in coffee. One type, chlorogenic acid, has been shown to decrease our absorption of carbs, so some calories from, say, the bread we enjoy with coffee won’t count. Meanwhile, notes Dr. Arnot, another phenol called melanoidin decreases absorption of dietary fat.
Meaning even more calories don’t count. He adds: “I suspect it’s the reason people instinctively reach for coffee after a rich meal.”
Permission to order yourself a post-lunch latte, granted!
Via: Woman’s World
