Drinking Coffee Could Help You Lose Weight

The perfect excuse to drink that extra cup of coffee in the morning.

People are always worried about which diet will best help them shed some pounds. Luckily for those people, it turns out we can make it happen with something we already hold near and dear: coffee. Research shows that our favorite warm brew could help us drop up to ten pounds a year, as long as we time it right.

Registered dietitian nutritionist Karen Andel explains that drinking eight-ounces of coffee can rev your metabolism by as much as 4% over two and a half hours.

There are two things that help coffee burn calories: caffeine and the antioxidant chlorogenic acid, which helps break down fat and sugar. But to get the metabolism boosting-effect, you can't just down a Venti coffee at 8 a.m. and expect to see results. Because the body starts breaking down caffeine after an hour and a half, you need to sip smaller cups, up to four times a day.

So just by tweaking your coffee routine, you could keep that gentle buzz going and burn an extra 100 calories a day. And at the end of a year, that gets you 10 pounds dropped. Not bad for doing something you already love.

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