Loose-Leaf Green Tea: Great for Weight Loss and Optimal Health

It's below zero outside and I'm sitting next to the wood stove drinking green tea. I love all the Crystal Star loose-leaf teas found at HealthyHealing like their Green Tea Cleanser, Beautiful Skin Tea, Cleansing & Purifying Tea, Bloat Release Tea, Female Harmony Tea, Liver Cleanse Flushing Tea, Bladder Comfort Tea, and Stress Arrest Tea. They are formulated by Linda Page, ND, a naturopathic physician and master classic herbalist. Loose leaf teas are not ground up into a fine powder and contained in a tea bag. Instead loose leaf teas are uncontained and consist of recognizable parts of the tea plant, like the leaves, flower buds, dried fruits and other plant components. Because loose leaf tea isn't pulverized into dust, more of its essential oils are intact. That means it is more likely to provide all those great health benefits you have read about. Green tea is renowned for its remarkable weight loss and immune system support, and cancer-fighting polyphenols. There are several ways to steep loose leaf tea.You can put the tea in a tea ball or a spoon-like device and dunk it into your cup of hot water. For better circulation, use a difuser which sits in your cup or teapot. Ceramic diffusers are rumored to be better choices than metal because of the metal's oxidation into your tea. I use both. There are specially designed teapots with diffusers built right in. I love the ritual of making a cup or a pot of tea for myself. I add a few drops of orange-flavored stevia and there's nothing better on a cold, snowy day.