Coffee or Tea – Part 2 - Health Plus Digest

Once your sugar crashes and you start looking for carbs, you’ll also experience tiredness and fatigue. Coffee will mask the effect of your eating style and increase your calorie intake.

There are several studies which show that drinking up to 6 cups of coffee per day are not associated with health risk, but drinking that much coffee will increase your risk of gaining weight or reduce your potential to lose weight.

On the other hand, tea, and specifically green tea, has a number of health benefits, including help with weight loss. It’s the polyphenols in green tea that have these effects, but an overdose of these chemicals can damage your liver or kidneys.

Tea has a much lower amount of caffeine and doesn’t trigger addiction and doesn’t have enough to alter your mood. If you are pregnant or want to become pregnant, check with your doctor before adding green tea to your nutritional regimen. You should not attempt to lose weight during pregnancy.

Resources:

International Journal of Obesity: Coffee, Tea, and Diabetes: the role of weight loss and caffeine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15925959

Mirror: The Great Tea Vs Coffee Debate

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/tea-v-coffee-debate-which-is-healthiest-1271357

Harvard: Coffee and Health

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/coffee/

Drugs: Caffeine Side Effects

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/caffeine-side-effects.html

MensHealth: 15 Fired Up Foods that Burn Away Pounds

http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/abs_diet_foods/Green_Tea_Coffee.php

Mercola: Is Drinking Tea or Coffee the Smarter Choice