Drinking several cups of coffee each day can help you lose weight by stimulating your body’s “brown fat”, Dr Michael Mosley says. The popular beverage helps the body burn more calories through body heat.
If you’re a coffee drinker you’ll be delighted to hear that your daily habit could actually be helping to keep you slim, Dr Mosley says. In a recent episode of his podcast , Just One Thing, on BBC Radio 4, the nutrition and diet expert explains how the caffeine in coffee has a number of waist-shrinking effects.
But it’s not just as simple as the well-known effects of caffeine, which can help us stay more alert allowing us to exercise for longer and burn more calories. Coffee also triggers our body’s own “fat-fighting defences” that cause us to burn calories through body heat. It also contains compounds with “anti-obesity properties", according to the studies referenced by Dr Mosley.
