Its basic tenet is easy to remember: find the teas you love and drink them all day. One of the best things about the Ultimate Tea Diet is that tea comes in a huge variety of flavors and forms.

Once you Download the E-Book you'll learn to identify the types of teas that have the most weight-loss benefits, but within those categories you have literally hundreds of choices.

There are sweet teas, pungent teas, salty teas, light teas, and heavy teas. There are fruity teas and spicy teas. There are teas in bags and teas in tins. There are teas that are relatively expensive, and teas that are extremely economical. If there's one thing I can guarantee, it's that with all these choices, you will be able to find many teas that you will not only like, but that you will look forward to drinking every day.

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According to the Tea Association of America, the tea industry topped $6.2 billion in 2005 (and is expected to exceed $10 billion by 2010) with Americans drinking 2.2 billion gallons of tea each year.

Americans are wising up to the fact that they don't need a "grande" beverage from the local coffee establishment to get the extra boost they need to make it through their day. The health benefits of tea can provide the stimulation and kick without all the side effects of a highly caffeinated beverage. It's simply a cup of good health a day.

Do you know which beverage is the most consumed in the world? No, it's not coffee, or beer, or wine. It's water. And what comes next on the list? Still not coffee. Nor wine nor beer. It's tea. In the most populated countries in the world, the drink they consume most often after water is tea.

It's time for tea to be recognized in this country, not only for the health benefits most of the world have known about for centuries, but for its incredible ability to help stop one of the world's biggest health crises to date: obesity.

Americans, and American children and teenagers, are getting larger and larger every year and are paying the consequences in diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

Millions of Americans go on and off diets every day. You are probably one of those millions, and you are probably tired of your own yo-yo dieting experiences. We try to eat right, to make healthy choices, and to get off our addictions to sugar and caffeine, but it's just too hard.

So we turn to drugs; we buy supplements made from obscure plants found only in African deserts; we cut out entire food groups; and we get totally confused by what the latest diet guru is telling us to eat (which is just the opposite of what the previous guru espoused). What we don't know is that we don't need drugs, supplements, or slide rules to help us figure out how to shed the pounds.

What we do need to know is very simple: Drinking tea will help us lose weight. Yes, tea. Inexpensive. Good tasting. And available to everyone everywhere. Tea, with natural ingredients that will not only help us lose weight, but will reduce our cravings for sweets, suppress our appetite, increase our insulin's effectiveness, lower our cholesterol, and stimulate thermogenesis, which helps the body burn fat for energy. All this from a cup of tea!

This is not theory, guessing, or wishful thinking. This is hard science, proven in study after study conducted over the past ten years by some of the most respected scientists around the world who have all come to the same conclusion: tea helps you lose weight. Simple, and true.

The secret is the synergy of tea's three main ingredients: caffeine, L-theanine, and epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). But here's a quick rundown of the ingredients, starting with caffeine. Because caffeine is a stimulant, it will help you lose weight. Unfortunately, however, caffeine has unhealthy side effects. Recent studies have shown that caffeine raises both blood sugar and insulin levels.

Doesn't tea have caffeine?

Yes, it does, but it has far less than you'll find in a cup of coffee. And here's the "magic" of tea: It also has L-theanine, an amino acid that works to counter caffeine's harmful effects. L-theanine also influences the neurotransmitters in the brain that affect your dopamine and serotonin levels which send the brain signals of satiety. The more tea you drink, the stronger the message to your brain that says "I'm not hungry." Therefore, tea not only helps you lose weight, it helps you to reduce your appetite and stay on a diet as well.

The third secret ingredient of tea is EGCG, the miracle antioxidant that stimulates your body's metabolism; you're actually burning fats as you sit there drinking your tea. EGCG also lowers the levels of triglycerides in the blood and inhibits the accumulation of fatty acids in the fat cells, thus making it a significant antiobesity agent.

Can you eat whatever you want and still lose weight simply by adding tea to your diet? Probably not. But if you start by drinking tea, it will begin its work on your alpha brain waves, your neurotransmitters, and your metabolism to increase your energy and decrease your appetite.

When you add in The Ultimate Tea Diet weight-loss food plan and a moderate amount of exercise, the pounds and inches will come off quickly and best of all, safely.

White tea, which has always been revered as the "Tea of Royals," is the most delicate and least processed tea in the world. White tea, named for the hao, or the white hair on the bud or baby leaf, is known for its mild flavor and natural sweetness. It is made from young leaves that have undergone no oxidation.

The production of authentic white tea is restricted to a limited geographical area in southeastern China's Fujian province. In fact, it wasn't until the 1990s that white tea was introduced to the Western world. It possesses the least caffeine of all the tea types, and is prized for its cooling and refreshing character while delivering many antioxidant and heart-strengthening elements, and is becoming more and more popular as a result of the newfound health benefits.

White tea was being produced as far back as the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the nature of the beverage and the style of tea preparation were quite different from the way we experience tea today. Tea leaves were processed into cakes and prepared by boiling pieces of the compressed tea in earthenware kettles. This special white tea of Tang was picked in early spring when the new growths of tea bushes that resemble silver needles were abundant.

The processing sequence for white tea is:

1. Leaves and buds are harvested.
2. Leaves and buds are cleaned.
3. Leaves and buds are dried.

During the Song Dynasty , production and preparation of tea changed throughout China. Even then, people were looking for convenience; a new form of tea emerged as a result of people wanting more and more tea without having to take the time to brew the leaves. The tea leaves were picked and quickly steamed to preserve their color and fresh character. After steaming, the leaves were dried. The finished tea was then ground into fine powders that were whisked in wide bowls. The resulting beverage resembled what we know of today as instant tea-you mixed the tea powder with hot water and voilà! Your tea was ready in an instant.

This tea was highly regarded for its deep emerald or iridescent white appearance and its rejuvenating and healthy energy. This style of tea preparation, using powdered tea and ceramic ware, became known as the Song tea ceremony. Although it later became extinct in China, this Song style of tea evolved into what is now the Japanese tea ceremony that endures still today.

Today, there are between 12,500 and 20,000 green teas produced in China alone (although they are named and renamed so many times-for no apparent reason-that no one knows exactly how many there are). It is similar to wine in that respect. There are thousands of vineyards that produce wines; not all of them make it to market, or are meant to do so. It's the same with tea in China.

There are thousands of individual tea plantations and each produces its own variety of tea. Some are meant only for an individual farmer's consumption; others may be distributed in a local area; and still others are grown for the commercial market and shipped worldwide.

As with white tea, the bud and leaves for green tea are picked, cleaned, and dried. The tea leaves then undergo a minimal amount of oxidation. Green tea has very low levels of caffeine, and derives its distinctive, healthy good flavor from the area in which it is grown and the techniques used to produce the tea.

The processing sequence for green tea is:

1. Leaves and buds are harvested.
2. Leaves and buds are cleaned.
3. Leaves and buds are dried.
4. In Japan, the leaves are steamed, which stops any fermentation.
5. In China, the leaves are placed in very hot woks to stop any fermentation.
6. The tea is then rolled, cut, ground, or shaped into a form uniquely associated with the plantation on which it is grown.

Dragon's Well is the most famous of Chinese green teas; it grows on the peaks of the Tieh Mu (t'yeh MOO) mountain range. Chinese mythology tells us that the dragon is the king of the waters. History tells us that in 250 AD, there was a drought at the Dragon's Well monastery. A monk prayed to the dragon, pleading for rain. His prayers were immediately answered, and the tea produced there received its name.

Oolong tea, referred to as the Champagne of teas, is a semioxidized whole-leaf tea, which retains all of the nutrients and natural healing factors contained in unfermented green tea, but without the raw, grassy taste. It falls somewhere between green and black tea, with complex flavor and aroma.

The leaves go through a very brief fermentation process, which eliminates harsh irritants from the raw tea and creates the subtle fragrances and flavors that distinguish this tea from all other varieties.

Oolong legend tells us Wu Liang (who lived during the Ming Dynasty in China), a tea farmer, went out one day to pick tea, as he did every day in the tea-picking season. He had collected quite a bit when his eye was caught by a deer drinking by the river. He stopped his tea-picking activities and killed the poor animal (sorry to have to report this). He took the slain deer home, as it would provide him with a week's worth of meals. He forgot all about his tea. When he went back to collect his load, he found that the tea had started to blacken. We know today, it had begun to oxidize.

Wu Liang thought that it might have gone bad, but decided to proceed with his traditional preparations. He dried the tea by pan-firing, as was done with the green teas of the day. When he made a cup of this tea, he was surprised to find that it tasted different than his usual green tea, and discovered that he loved the flavor. He taught his neighbors and friends how to make the new tea, and it came to be named after him. Language being what it is, the name eventually evolved from Wu Liang to Oolong.

The processing sequence for oolong tea is:

1. Leaves and buds are harvested.
2. Leaves and buds are cleaned.
3. Leaves and buds are placed in bamboo containers and air is blown through them. This process is referred to as "withering the leaves."
4. The withered leaves are rolled, which releases the oils within the leaf. These oils mix with the oxygen in the air and the leaves begin to ferment or oxidize.
5. When the rolled leaves reach a dark blue-green color, they are placed into a hot wok to stop the fermentation process and add flavor.

The Ultimate Tea Diet is just amazing!

I really recommend you download this ebook. While brushing up on what I have read, I was taking a look at the recipe section.

With the summer weather I gave this tasty recipe a try that I found in the ebook: The Ultimate Tea Diet.

Tea Popsicles

It is really easy to make! Here it is:

Ingredients:
Any Frostea you love (double recipe)
6 unit Popsicle tray and sticks

Prepare Frostea, doubling the recipe.

Let the ice melt for 20 to 30 minutes.

Pour the
mixture into the Popsicle trays, insert the sticks, and place in the freezer.

Freeze until firm, 1 hour or more.

Serves 6

NUTRITION PER SERVING: Varies according to Frostea recipe used