What happens when you add hibiscus tea to your diet –

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No matter what you do, the belly is still there? Don’t despair, there’s a simple solution to that stubborn fanny pack: hibiscus tea. Do you think little? We tell you all the benefits that the powerful drink offers for your body!

1. Accelerated, accelerated metabolism…
Losing weight doesn’t just depend on what you eat, but also on how your body works. Therefore, you need to bet on thermogenic allies. And hibiscus tea is one of them. That is, a food that increases body temperature, accelerates metabolism and fat burning. Great, huh?

2. Goodbye, fat girls!
Yes, it also dries the fatty ones. That’s what showed a new study conducted at the faculty of medicine at the University of Taiwan in China. The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups: one consumed hibiscus extract, and the other a placebo effect substance. At the end of 12 weeks, participants in the first group were 3 pounds lighter, on average, than those in the second. There was mainly fat loss.

3. Reduces waist and hip measurements
As it facilitates digestion, regularizes the intestine and also fights liquid retention, you will soon begin to feel the benefits in your clothes. You know those jeans or tighter clothes that you love, but haven’t been able to wear for a while? So after a week you can already take the test.

4. You decrease fluid retention
Other substances (enzymes and mucilages) present in the plant act in different areas. In the stomach, they facilitate digestion; in the intestine, they prevent part of the absorption of carbohydrates and fat from food; and in the kidneys, temporarily annul the action of the antidiuretic hormone, when the body takes advantage of this to get rid of excess fluid.

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5. Say goodbye to cellulite
What gives hibiscus this power? Above all, the high concentration of anthocyanin – a pigment from the flavonoid family -, which has an antioxidant (removes a good part of free radicals from the scene) and anti-inflammatory (combats cell inflammation, allowing them to fully perform their functions again). Result: “The body stops accumulating toxins – enemy substances that make it difficult to lose weight”, he explains. Lucyanna Kallufa functional nutritionist specializing in phytotherapy at Instituto Alpha de Saúde Integral, in São Paulo.